White & Case boosts London M&A practice with Freshfields hire
White & Case has boosted its London M&A practice with the hire of partner David Crook from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.…
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Clifford Chance recruits investment banker from Bank of America
London-based law firm Clifford Chance has hired former Bank of America Corp investment banker Robert F. Masella as a mergers and acquisitions partner in New York. Masella…
Legal business booming in Indonesia, India and Vietnam
Foreign and domestic law firms in Singapore have reported a boom in capital markets, M&A, energy, infrastructure and arbitration work from Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Singapore in the past year.
AZB, IndusLaw and Trilegal top the Venture Intelligence PE and M & A league tables
Venture Intelligence has come out with its Private Equity (PE) and Mergers & Acquisitions (M & A) league tables for the first 9 months of 2010 and the results are not surprising. The PE league table evaluates law…
Cleary, Jones Day and Stikeman Elliott land roles in BHP Billiton deal
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Jones Day and Stikeman Elliott have taken…
Committee recommends regulatory reform of rules rules for substantial acquisition of shares and takeovers
The Takeover Regulations Advisory Committee has reviewed he rules relating to takeovers and recommended key reforms that could change the game for mergers and acquisitions.
Clifford Chance hires veteran Macfarlanes corporate partner
Clifford Chance has lured veteran Macfarlanes partner Tim Lewis to join their global corporate practice. Lewis joined Macfarlanes’ M&A…
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto makes seven new partners
Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has chosen seven associates from among its own ranks for promotion to the partnership. The firm has beefed up its M&A practice by…
Dewey and Paul Hastings lead on Disney-Marvel megadeal
US law firms Dewey & LeBoeuf and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker have won lead roles on Walt Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. The deal means Disney will take over ownership of 5,000 Marvel…
PRC law firms take top spots in Asia M&A ranking for first time
Beijing-based law firms Commerce & Finance and Deheng took the top two spots of the Asia-Pacific M&A league table by value in the first half of 2009 --- the first time that PRC firms top a legal advisory league…
Cravath and Mayer Brown advise on IBM, SPSS merger
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is advising longstanding client IBM on its acquisition of analytics software maker SPSS for $1.2 billion, with a team led by Cravath's M&A partner Scott Barshay. Mayer Brown M&A partners…
Linklaters and Freshfields lead on $68bn mining merger
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles on the proposed merger of mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata, a deal that would create a company with a combined market value of about $68 billion.
Block on Coca-Cola's Huiyuan Juice bid sparks fears over Chinese M&A
Beijing's decision to block Coca-Cola's $2.4bn takeover of China's leading juice maker Huiyuan Juice has caused a wave of domestic support. In a poll by a Chinese website, more than 80 per cent of 120,000 respondents…
Freehills and Mallesons compete for top spots in Asian M&A league
Mergermarket's st Q3 M&A league tables showed that for the first three quarters of 2008 Mallesons had slightly more deal volume (55) than Freehills (53), while Bloomberg's results showed Freehills (103) was significantly…