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  • November 24, 2009 |

    UK trio lead on multimillion-pound publishing takeover bid

    A trio of City firms have landed roles as publishing giant Informa prepares to launch a multimillion-pound takeover of Germany-based publishing rival Springer Science and Business Media. Regular adviser CMS Cameron McKenna has taken the lead role for Informa on the deal, with a team led by City corporate partner Gary Green and corporate head Andrew Sheach.

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  • November 23, 2009 |

    Ashurst recruitment continues with hire of RBS UK restructuring chief

    Ashurst has looked in-house for its latest finance hire, bringing in Royal Bank of Scotland's UK head of corporate and restructuring for its loan markets team. Lee Doyle is set to join Ashurst at the beginning of December, with his arrival coming just weeks after former White & Case restructuring partner Dan Hamilton arrived at the City firm.

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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 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 |

    Field Fisher lateral hires gift firm links with Time Warner and Sky

    Field Fisher Waterhouse is reaping the rewards of its lateral hiring programme, with the firm picking up a number of new clients over the last year including Time Warner and Sky. The top 50 firm has brought in seven lateral partners since January in London, making it one of the most expansive City firms in recent months.

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  • November 11, 2009 |

    Trio of firms win roles on £90m takeover of Live Nation venues

    Travers Smith, Denton Wilde Sapte and Hammonds have won lead roles on Exponent Private Equity's financing of the Ambassador Theatre Group's (ATG's) £90m takeover of Live Nation's 16 UK theatres. Travers advised longstanding client Exponent on the deal, which will create the largest theatre group in the UK and adds high-profile West End venues such as the Lyceum and Apollo Victoria to ATG's portfolio of theatres.

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  • November 11, 2009 |

    More than just price

    "A typical energy project is complex, unpredictable and chaotic," says Peter Roberts, general counsel of Centrica Energy, the upstream business of Centrica. "So attempting to tie a law firm to a fixed fee is an unintelligent way of proceeding." Still, Roberts expects any law firm advising on one of the oil and gas, wind or early phase nuclear power projects Centrica is currently developing to be able to at least provide a cost estimate - even if they end up straying from it: "It's like asking a cabbie how much he reckons it will cost to get to King's Cross," he says. "If he can't at least give you a rough estimate then there is a strong suggestion that he doesn't know what he is doing."

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  • November 9, 2009 |

    Former A&O finance partner joins Fried Frank's London office

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has made a rare lateral hire in London, bringing in former Allen & Overy (A&O) leveraged finance partner Mark Wesseldine. Wesseldine will join the US firm's City arm towards the end of the year after serving as a partner with A&O since 2007.

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  • November 9, 2009 |

    Ashurst identifies six key US referral firms in renewed Stateside push

    Ashurst has drawn up a list of US firms to use as preferred referral partners in a bid to deliver a more structured approach in the region. The firm has identified Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Ropes & Gray, Schulte Roth & Zabel and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges as its main referral firms, although the relationships are understood not to be exclusive.

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  • November 4, 2009 |

    CC and Ashurst take lead on £225m sale of Kleinwort Benson private bank

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Ashurst have advised on the £225m acquisition of Kleinwort Benson private bank by Brussels financial holding company RHJ International. CC landed a first-time instruction from RHJ on the deal, with the firm fielding a team from its London office led by corporate partner Alex Erasmus, assisted by City regulatory partner Chris Bates.

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