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  • November 23, 2009 |

    Linklaters Asia chief quits to take up China role for JP Morgan

    Linklaters' Asia managing partner Zili Shao is to leave the firm to become chairman and CEO of JP Morgan's China businesses at the end of January. Shao has held the Asia managing partner role since May this year, when he was voted in as a replacement for Giles White, who left the firm to become general counsel at Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine Matheson.

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  • November 19, 2009 |

    Linklaters leads for JP Morgan on £1bn Cazenove buyout

    Linklaters has taken a lead role for JP Morgan after stepping in to advise on the bank's £1bn purchase of the remaining 50% of Cazenove. Corporate partner Stephen Blackshaw led the magic firm's team on the deal, which will see JP Morgan acquire the remaining components of Cazenove that it does not already own, with the value of the combined bank set to reach £2bn.

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  • November 17, 2009 |

    Nabarro and Ashurst take lead roles on property firm's £191m rights issue

    Nabarro and Ashurst have won roles on Quintain Estates and Development's £191m rights issue as the company pushes forward with two London regeneration schemes. The developer turned to longstanding adviser Nabarro on the fundraising, which will be used for regeneration schemes in Greenwich and Wembley as well as to expand the company's fund management business.

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  • November 13, 2009 |

    Ropes & Gray gains early Euro boost with role on €3.5bn Liberty takeover

    Ropes & Gray's newly-launched City practice has secured a trophy mandate after being instructed to advise cable group Liberty Global on deal finance for its €3.5bn (£3.1bn) takeover of Germany's Unitymedia. The US law firm was instructed two weeks ago to handle the high yield debt backing the acquisition, one of the largest media deals since the credit crunch crippled the leveraged finance market in 2007.

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  • November 11, 2009 |

    Ashurst and Freshfields lead on £360m National Express rights issue

    Ashurst is advising longstanding client National Express as it pushes ahead with plans for a £360m rights issue. London corporate partner Steven Fox is leading the firm's team assisted by senior associate Tom Mercer and US corporate partner Daniel Bushner.

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  • November 11, 2009 |

    US Briefing: Mayer without Maher

    In the seven years after Paul Maher helped wed his firm, London's Rowe & Maw, to Chicago-based Mayer Brown & Platt, he established a reputation as the firm's best strategist. He pushed his partners to open a Hong Kong office, which was later used to open the door to a merger with Johnson Stokes & Master, a Hong Kong firm with 300 lawyers in Asia. As vice-chairman, he argued for strengthening Mayer Brown's wilting New York office - a perpetual work-in-progress - and for boosting profitability, which has sagged in recent years.

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  • October 27, 2009 |

    Freshfields heads up firms on ING restructuring and €7.5bn rights issue

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Sullivan & Cromwell and Stibbe have all landed roles on ING's restructuring, which includes a €7.5bn (£6.8bn) rights issue. Sullivan and Stibbe have been instructed to advise on the bank's rights issue, which was launched yesterday (26 October) as part of a wider restructuring that will see the Dutch banking giant split into two.

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  • October 21, 2009 |

    New book highlights Sullivan lawyer's central role in bank bailouts

    It's not news that Sullivan & Cromwell's Rodgin Cohen was among the handful of key players who determined the course of last year's federal bailout. In 2008, The American Lawyer named him Dealmaker of the Year because of his involvement in almost every key bailout deal, from helping AIG secure its initial $85bn (£51bn) lifeline, to convincing Goldman Sachs to become to a bank holding company and advising Lehman Brothers before it filed for bankruptcy.

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  • October 20, 2009 |

    Ashurst and Macfarlanes called in on LXB's £100m AIM float

    Ashurst and Macfarlanes have taken headline roles on a rare initial public offering (IPO) on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) worth £100m. The deal saw LXB Retail Properties float on the exchange, which has seen activity levels plummet during the downturn.

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  • October 15, 2009 |

    M&A pioneer and ex-Cravath lawyer Wasserstein passes away at 61

    Bruce Wasserstein, the most famous lawyer-turned-banker, has died at the age of 61. The former Cravath Swaine & Moore corporate lawyer died yesterday (14 October) after being taken to hospital with an irregular heartbeat at the weekend.

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