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  • October 26, 2010 |

    CC and A&O take lead roles on £1.9bn Singapore IPO

    Clifford Chance (CC), Allen & Overy (A&O) and Allen & Gledhill have lined up on Singapore's largest initial public offering (IPO) in 17 years, worth S$3.9bn (£1.9bn). Logistics company Global Logistic Properties (GLP) launched on the Singapore stock exchange earlier this month, with the flotation marking the largest IPO in the region since telecommunications company SingTel went public in 1993 for a reported S$4bn (£2bn).

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Eversheds recruits Hill Dicks partner for disputes practice

    Eversheds has bolstered its disputes practice with the hire of James Southworth from Hill Dickinson. Southworth joined the top 10 law firm earlier this month (18 October) as a partner in the 15-partner financial services dispute resolution team and will split his time between Manchester and London, working with practice head Paul Worth.

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  • October 20, 2010 |

    US duo take top roles on Danish jewellery retailer's €1.5bn listing

    Latham & Watkins and Davis Polk & Wardwell have taken lead roles on the €1.5bn (£1.3bn) initial public offering (IPO) of Danish jewellery maker Pandora. Davis Polk advised the jewellery company on its listing, fielding a team led by London corporate partner John Meade. Latham, meanwhile, advised the financial sponsors on the deal, which completed earlier this month on Copenhagen's NASDAQ OMX exchange.

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  • October 20, 2010 |

    Herbert Smith City partner relocates to Singapore arm

    Herbert Smith has grown its finance arm in Singapore with the relocation of partner Adrian Cheng from the firm's City office. Cheng moved to the region earlier this month to join the banking and finance practice. He becomes the eighth partner in the firm's Singapore office and the third partner in the local practice.

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  • October 13, 2010 |

    Top names ready to battle for honours at 2010 British Legal Awards

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) are among the firms shortlisted for a number of categories in the 2010 British Legal Awards. The group has been nominated for the much sought after Law Firm of the Year award alongside Clyde & Co, Sullivan & Cromwell and Travers Smith.

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  • October 11, 2010 |

    Eversheds to integrate volume business into core legal practice

    Eversheds has overhauled the structure of its volume business to bring the standalone division into its core legal practice. The firm's eight-partner, 550-fee earner commoditised arm, which currently operates as the Legal Systems Group (LSG), is set to be split up and integrated within Eversheds' dispute resolution and real estate groups.

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  • October 8, 2010 |

    White & Case and Milbank take top roles on $15bn bond programme

    White & Case and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have lined up on a $15bn (£9.4bn) covered bond programme that marks the first of its kind by a Nordic issuer in the US. White & Case advised the issuer, Stadshypotek, a Swedish mortgage institution, with a team led by London capital markets head Francis Fitzherbert-Brockholes alongside structured finance partner Gavin McLean, arbitration partner Claes Zettermarck and tax partner Raymond Simon.

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  • October 7, 2010 |

    Freshfields, Linklaters and US duo win roles on $15bn AIA listing

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have won roles on the highly anticipated Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of American International Assurance (AIA), reports The Am Law Daily. Freshfields partners Teresa Ko and Kay-Ian Ng are advising on Hong Kong law for AIA - the Asian division of bailed-out insurance giant AIG. The potential proceeds from the listing have been estimated at up to $14.9bn (£9.3bn).

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Shearman and Skadden lead on €1.7bn sale of metal packaging co

    A duo of US law firms has taken lead roles on a €1.7bn (£1.5bn) deal that will form a new worldwide food packaging group. The deal, which was financed in the high-yield bond market, handed roles to both Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. It saw Dublin-headquartered Ardagh Glass buy Dutch metal packaging company Impress Cooperative from private equity house Doughty Hanson. Under the terms of the deal, Ardagh will offer the €1.7bn (£1.5bn) in secured and unsecured notes in both euros and US dollars in order to fund the acquisition.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    SNR Denton outlines growth strategy with five partner hires as merger goes live

    SNR Denton has embarked on an ambitious expansion plan following the new transatlantic firm's formal launch last week. The newly-merged firm - which was formed by the union of City firm Denton Wilde Sapte and Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal - has said it will launch a Houston office within nine months and is in advanced discussions to enter South America.

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