Filter This View

  • July 10, 2012 |

    Linklaters joins four-firm line-up for US role on $4.5bn WellPoint acquisition

    Linklaters' New York corporate team has picked up a lead role for WellPoint on its $4.5bn (£2.9bn) acquisition of healthcare rival Amerigroup. The magic circle firm fielded a US team led by corporate partner Dan Dufner for WellPoint - the second-largest health insurer in the US. He worked alongside US head of employment Bindu Culas, competition partner Jeff Schmidt, co-head of US banking Jeff Norton and tax partner Gordon Warnke.

    1 minute read

  • July 5, 2012 |

    Skadden takes lead legal role on News Corp plan to split business

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has secured the lead role for News Corporation in the US on its plans to split the $60bn (£48bn) media business into two publicly traded companies.

    1 minute read

  • July 5, 2012 |

    CC corporate revival continues as firm secures top M&A rankings

    Clifford Chance (CC) has overcome the continued slowdown in the M&A markets to dominate Mergermarket's global, European and UK rankings by value for the first half of 2012.

    1 minute read

  • July 3, 2012 |

    Yahoo general counsel quits search giant

    Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan is stepping down "to move on to new opportunities," according to a resignation letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, reports The Recorder. Ron Bell, deputy GC for products and the Americas region, is serving as interim general counsel, according to an internal memo from CEO Ross Levinsohn.

    1 minute read

  • July 2, 2012 |

    Freshfields joins New York trio on AB InBev's $20bn Modelo acquisition

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all landed roles on Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev's $20bn (£12.8bn) acquisition of the Mexican brewer behind brands including Corona, Grupo Modelo. The deal sees AB InBev, which already owned a stake of around 50% in Grupo Modelo, buy up the remaining shares to take control of the company.

    1 minute read

  • June 22, 2012 |

    Finley Kumble's children – the familiar cycle of legal collapses

    There have been plenty of precedents for high-profile collapses in the world's largest legal market, but one failure still looms the largest over the US profession 24 years on. After all, the rise and rapid implosion of Finley Kumble Wagner Heine Underberg Manley Myerson & Casey was in some aspects even more startling than that of Dewey & LeBoeuf. Finley was built at breakneck speed on the basis of a new model. In place of the traditional focus on the practise of law, the firm hungered for partners who would win business and expansion through continuous lateral recruitment.

    1 minute read

  • June 21, 2012 |

    Top Russian investment bank RenCap kicks off 'very competitive' adviser review

    Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has kicked off a review of its law firm roster after group head of compliance Mark Harris took up an expanded role as head of legal earlier this year.

    1 minute read

  • June 12, 2012 |

    US trio take key roles on $1bn Apax software group buyout

    A trio of US firms are advising on a $1bn (£644m) private equity deal that has seen UK-based private equity house Apax Partners team up with US tech investor JMI Equity to acquire software group Paradigm, reports The Am Law Daily. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is advising Paradigm on the transaction, while Kirkland & Ellis is serving as outside counsel to Apax.

    1 minute read

  • June 11, 2012 |

    A&O cuts partners in Hong Kong amid regional market slowdown

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has asked a number of Hong Kong partners to leave as the firm cuts back its local partnership by around 20%. The magic circle firm confirmed that it has asked four partners to leave, with the group understood to include partners from both transactional and disputes teams, while one further real estate partner has left the firm to set up his own practice.

    1 minute read

  • June 7, 2012 |

    Freshfields and Skadden lead on $1.7bn sale of Brazil gas company

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken the lead roles on the $1.7bn (£1.1bn) sale of BG Group's majority holding in Brazilian gas distribution company Comgas. Freshfields led for BG Group with a team fielded by City corporate partner Graham Watson, alongside London managing partner Mark Rawlinson, Amsterdam corporate partner Robert ten Have, tax partner Sarah Falk and Eelco van der Stok.

    1 minute read