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  • May 22, 2007 |

    Manhattan duo lead GE's $12bn plastics sale

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and Shearman & Sterling have bagged lead roles on the sale by General Electric (GE) of its plastics business to Saudi Basic Industries in a $11.6bn (£5.9bn) deal. Shearman advised the buyer, with firm co-managing partner John Madden and New York-based corporate partner Stephen Besen leading the team acting on behalf of Saudi.

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  • May 22, 2007 | International Edition

    Second time lucky for Weil on Terra Firma's £3.2bn EMI bid

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' London arm has landed a second high-profile bid for Terra Firma - advising the private equity house on its £3.2bn takeover of EMI. City corporate partners Marco Compagnoni and Ian Hamilton are advising the sponsor on the bid, which was agreed by EMI's board on Monday (21 May), with banking partner Richard Ginsburg handling debt issues. The instruction comes just a month after Weil Gotshal advised the private equity house on its joint bid for Alliance Boots for more than £10bn.

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  • May 22, 2007 |

    Second time lucky for Weil on Terra Firma's £3.2bn EMI bid

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' London arm has landed a second high-profile bid for Terra Firma - advising the private equity house on its £3.2bn takeover of EMI. City corporate partners Marco Compagnoni and Ian Hamilton are advising the sponsor on the bid, which was agreed by EMI's board on Monday (21 May), with banking partner Richard Ginsburg handling debt issues. The instruction comes just a month after Weil Gotshal advised the private equity house on its joint bid for Alliance Boots for more than £10bn.

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  • May 22, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 22/5/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; more advice from readers on Career Clinic; and the best of the blogs.

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  • May 21, 2007 |

    Cleary, Wachtell get call on $27.5bn telecoms LBO

    New York duo Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have bagged the lead roles on the $27.5bn (£14bn) take-private of telecoms giant Alltel as the boom in big-ticket M&A in the US shows little sign of slowing. Cleary is advising the buyout consortium, which comprises Texas Pacific Group and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs Group. Texas Pacific relationship partner Paul Shim led the team for the Manhattan giant, with acquisition finance partner Meme Stowers and corporate partner Duane McLaughlin assisting.

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  • May 18, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal hires former NY Solicitor General

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has strengthened its litigation practice with the hire of former New York State Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan, the Manhattan firm announced yesterday (17 May). Halligan, who will head Weil Gotshal's appellate practice and becomes the group's sixth partner, spent more than five years under former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    US leaders continue restructuring drive

    Two New York firms have hired restructuring partners in the latest evidence of Manhattan's top firms striving to beef up their insolvency practices.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Hogan bags $4.8bn mandate as aggressive bid tactics rule

    Norilsk Nickel calls in Hogan in competitive bid as aggressive acquirers power M&A market

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Addleshaws and DLA check in for Yorkshire airport sale

    Bridgepoint hands airport role to Addleshaws while Linklaters City HQ takes first mandate

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  • May 10, 2007 |

    Linklaters wins first UK Bridgepoint mandate

    Linklaters has advised Bridgepoint Capital for the first time in London, acting on the buy-out house's acquisition of Gambro Healthcare. The City giant, which has a relationship with the client in Stockholm and Paris, advised on the acquisition of the dialysis care services division of Swedish-based Gambro Group for an undisclosed sum. Press reports have put the value of the deal as high as €600m (£407.5m). The business is the second-largest of its type in Europe and has 155 clinics across 14 countries.

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