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  • September 23, 2009 |

    CC and Weil Gotshal land roles on $2.6bn Orangina Schweppes bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken lead roles on Japanese drinks company Suntory's offer to buy Orangina Schweppes Group from two high-profile private equity funds, Lion Capital Holdings and the Blackstone Group. Weil Gotshal is advising Blackstone and Lion Capital, which purchased Orangina from Cadbury in 2006 for $2.1bn (£1.3bn). London office managing partner Mike Francies is leading the firm's team on the deal.

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  • September 18, 2009 |

    SJ Berwin and Simpson Thacher lead on British Land's Broadgate sell-off

    SJ Berwin and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have picked up lead roles as British Land prepares to sell half of London's Broadgate Circle to US private equity house Blackstone Group. City firm SJ Berwin is representing longstanding client British Land on the deal, which will see the two companies form a 50:50 joint venture, through which two Blackstone real estate funds will buy the stake in Broadgate, which is valued at £2.13bn.

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  • September 16, 2009 | International Edition

    Take your chances

    After dominating the 1990s, Clifford Chance has weathered a turbulent decade and a brutal financial year. Georgina Stanley assesses if the firm can regain its former glory

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  • September 16, 2009 |

    Take your chances

    After dominating the 1990s, Clifford Chance has weathered a turbulent decade and a brutal financial year. Georgina Stanley assesses if the firm can regain its former glory

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  • September 7, 2009 |

    CC and Slaughters lead on rejected £10.2bn Cadbury bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Slaughter and May are advising as US food giant Kraft Foods attempts to takeover Cadbury. Cadbury announced today (7 September) that it had rejected a £10.2bn offer made by Kraft at the end of August, however the US company is still committed to reaching a deal.

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  • August 20, 2009 |

    US firms unite to oppose shareholder nominations to corporate boards

    Seven elite US law firms have come together to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on how the agency should implement a proposal to allow shareholders to nominate company directors. Lawyers involved in drafting the letter acknowledge it was rare for one letter to come from all the firms, which included Cravath Swaine & Moore, Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. At least four of the firms also sent separate letters addressing concerns with the policy direction the SEC is taking.

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  • July 23, 2009 |

    Slaughters and Simpson Thacher lead on €250m KKR music deal

    Slaughter and May and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have landed lead roles advising on a joint venture between media giant Bertelsmann and US private equity house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR). Slaughters was drafted in to advise the German media group on the arrangement, which will see KKR putting in up to €250m (£214m) to acquire catalogues of songs.

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  • July 22, 2009 |

    Simpson, Cravath and Bredin Prat line up on KKR merger deal

    A trio of international firms have advised on private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co's (KKR's) merger with its European affiliate KKR Private Equity Investors (KPE), reports The Am Law Daily. The transaction has been approved by directors at KKR and KPE and will be completed on 1 October if a majority of KPE unit holders agree to the merger during voting in the third quarter. The deal could bring KKR one step closer to a public listing in New York, which it delayed last year amid turmoil in the credit markets.

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  • July 16, 2009 |

    Top law firms drafted in to advise on Liberty's £510m buyout of Pearl Group

    A raft firms have landed roles advising on the £510m buyout of Pearl Group by acquisition vehicle Liberty International. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Lovells, Clifford Chance (CC), Olswang and Greenberg Traurighave all won roles on the deal, which reduces Pearl's debts.

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  • July 16, 2009 |

    Top law firms drafted in to advise on Liberty's £510m buyout of Pearl Group

    A raft firms have landed roles advising on the £510m buyout of Pearl Group by acquisition vehicle Liberty International. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Lovells, Clifford Chance (CC), Olswang and Greenberg Traurig have all won roles on the deal, which reduces Pearl's debts.

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