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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Stibbe scores latest role on £80bn ABN talks

    Herbert Smith's Benelux ally, Stibbe, has bagged a role advising ABN Amro's supervisory board on its £80bn merger bid with Barclays, it has emerged, as the Dutch bank continues to hand roles to the country's leading independent advisers. Stibbe is fielding an Amsterdam-based team headed by corporate partners Paul van den Hoek, Allard Metzelaar and Charles Honee, while long-term ABN advisor NautaDutilh is advising the bank. Nauta's team is led by corporate partner Hein Hooghoudt.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Nauta secures lead role on £80bn Barclays-ABN bid

    Dutch independent NautaDutilh has secured the lead role advising ABN Amro on its £80bn merger bid with Barclays, on what looks set to be one of Europe's biggest-ever M&A deals. Nauta is lining up alongside Allen & Overy (A&O) while Clifford Chance (CC) and Sullivan & Cromwell have bagged advisory roles for Barclays.

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  • March 22, 2007 | International Edition

    CC secures M&A breakthrough with lead role on Barclays' £80bn ABN bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Sullivan & Cromwell have won coveted roles on one of Europe's biggest-ever deals - acting for Barclays on its £80bn merger bid with ABN Amro. Davis Polk & Wardwell has been confirmed as adviser to ABN on US issues with Allen & Overy (A&O) in line to advise in Europe.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    CC secures M&A breakthrough with lead role on Barclays' £80bn ABN bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Sullivan & Cromwell have won coveted roles on one of Europe's biggest-ever deals - acting for Barclays on its £80bn merger bid with ABN Amro. Davis Polk & Wardwell has been confirmed as adviser to ABN on US issues with Allen & Overy (A&O) in line to advise in Europe.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Gianni and Cleary on line with E3.7bn Swiss telecoms deal

    Leading Italian independent Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners and US giant Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have both won new clients to advise on Swisscom's E3.7bn (£2.5bn) takeover of Italy's second-largest fixed-line operator, Fastweb.Gianni M&A partner Filippo Troisi is leading a 15-lawyer team on the deal, advising alongside New York leader Sullivan & Cromwell on the offer.

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  • March 21, 2007 |

    Macfarlanes bags Boots takeover role

    Macfarlanes has scored a coveted role on the £9.7bn takeover bid for Alliance Boots, advising executive deputy chairman Stefano Pessina on his part in the takeover bid.

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  • March 21, 2007 |

    Spike it lucky

    As Freshfields partners continue to find out the hard way that 'P45' does not refer to a new brand of hand-cream, Allen & Overy (A&O) has found alternative ways of motivating under-performing fee-monkeys.

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  • March 21, 2007 |

    PEP dubbed a blunt instrument as top lawyers support Beringer's broadside

    More than half of the UK's top lawyers think average profits per equity partner (PEP) figures released by top law firms are unreliable, according to new research. This week's Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey found that just over half (51%) of lawyers believe the PEP figure released by firms that are not limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are unreliable. Thirteen percent said the figures were 'very unreliable' and a further 38% said they were 'pretty unreliable'. No-one said the figures were 'very reliable'. Eighty-two percent said the PEP figures released by LLP firms were 'more reliable'.

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  • March 20, 2007 |

    Barclays gives CC a shot at big league but A&O could find it hard to go Dutch

    Even in these days of buccaneering takeovers and rampant private equity activity, bids like this don’t come along often. By size alone Barclays’…

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  • March 19, 2007 | International Edition

    City duo book places on First Choice-TUI tie-up

    Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith have landed the lead roles on the latest major tie-up in the fast-consolidating travel sector - the merger bid between UK holiday giant First Choice and German group TUI. The deal, which was announced today (19 March), will see First Choice combine with the tourism arm of TUI to create TUI Travel - a London-listed company with annual revenues of around £12bn.

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