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Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped lead roles on a proposed merger between commodities trader Glencore and mining giant Xstrata worth around $82bn (£50m).
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Links and Freshfields take top roles on proposed $82bn mining merger
Kirkland City chief Learner quits to take up US private equity role
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Kirkland & Ellis London head Jim Learner is set to leave the firm this summer to take up a role at a US private equity house. Learner, who was involved in launching the US firm’s London office in 1994 and is now responsible for all European operations, [...]
Latham and Linklaters take lead roles on first French ‘dim sum’ bond
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Linklaters and Latham & Watkins have advised on the first renminbi-denominated bond by a French company, reports The Asian Lawyer.
L’Air Liquide, a French producer of industrial and medical gases, has guaranteed the issue of two tranches of bonds, worth $400m (£256m), by its subsidiary, Air Liquide Finance. [...]
Weil’s global private equity co-head leaves to take top legal role at Advent
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Weil Gotshal & Manges’ global co-head of private equity James Westra is leaving the US law firm to become Advent International’s managing director and chief legal officer.
Westra, who is set to join the private equity house next month (3 October), will be advising Advent’s investment teams globally [...]
Linklaters US derivatives chief exits to take new role at futures regulator
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Linklaters’ US structured finance and derivatives chief Gary Barnett has left the firm to take a newly-created role at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Barnett – who has spent seven years at the magic circle firm since joining in 2004 from Shearman & Sterling – has [...]
A&O and CC take top roles on pre-let deal for new Canary Wharf tower
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Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) have taken lead roles on one of the largest London lettings deals so far this year.
The magic circle duo have advised as the European Medical Association (EMA) agreed a pre-let of 250,000 sq ft in a new 20-storey tower [...]
DLA Piper and Maclays take roles on Jane Norman restructuring and sale
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DLA Piper has picked up a lead role on the administration and subsequent sale of failed fashion chain Jane Norman. The transatlantic firm advised administrators Zolfo Cooper as well as the syndicate of lending banks on the restructuring that saw the company fall into administration on Monday [...]
Cravath and Shearman take headline roles on $21.3bn healthcare takeover
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Cravath Swaine & Moore and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead roles on Johnson & Johnson’s $21.3bn (£12.8bn) acquisition of orthopaedic devices manufacturer Synthes, reports the Am Law Daily.
Cravath is acting for Johnson & Johnson on the deal, which ranks as the healthcare giant’s largest to [...]