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Mergers & Acquisitions
Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
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Bredin, Cleary Guide Sanofi’s €3B Share Buyback From L’Oreal
By Rick Mitchell | February 4, 2025
In other deals, Linklaters, Willkie and Latham are advising as PAI Partners negotiates to buy a stake in Alvest, a France-based provider of ground support equipment for airports, in a deal worth an estimated €2 billion. And Latham and A&O Shearman are guiding Ares’ €800 million investment in Your.World.
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A&O Shearman, White & Case Advise on €1.2B Public Takeover of German Steel Giant Salzgitter
By James Jackson | February 4, 2025
A domestic consortium offered a price of €18.50 for the troubled steel giant—but industry figures warned of market dominance.
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Slaughter and May and A&O Shearman Advise as Latest UK Company Goes American
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 30, 2025
The deal reflects a sustained exodus of companies from the London Stock Exchange.
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Trio of Firms Act On Chinese Insurer Ping An's $1.7B Stake Acquisition In Healthcare Arm
By Kasvi Sehgal | January 28, 2025
Last October, Ping An turned to Ropes & Gray and Harneys for counsel in relation to the $850 million fundraising for its private equity programme for overseas investing.
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The New M&A Kings All Have Something in Common
By Paul Hodkinson | January 26, 2025
Kirkland, Latham, Paul Weiss and others have replaced the likes of Sullivan & Cromwell, Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May as the global leaders in M&A over the last 20 years, writes the Global Lawyer.
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Kirkland’s O’Shea Acts Alongside Former Outfit Simpson Thacher on KKR Deal
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 23, 2025
Partner Sinead O'Shea made waves when she joined Kirkland & Ellis as part of a high-profile defection from Simpson Thacher, alongside fellow partner Ian Barratt in 2023.
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Hengeler, Noerr, Freshfields Steer Multi-Million Euro Deals for XXXLutz, Huf Group & More
By James Jackson | January 15, 2025
Hengeler Mueller is advising XXXLutz on its cross-border acquisition of the Porta Group, while Freshfields and Noerr are involved in complex transactions across the automotive and software sectors.
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Australia’s Allens Advises on $990M Student Accommodation Purchase
By Christopher Niesche | January 15, 2025
Ashurst and MinterEllison acted for the vendors, sources say
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Latham Claims Top Spot as US Firms Dominate in UK M&A Rankings
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 14, 2025
This year's top 20 shows U.S. firms are continuing to gain ground in the U.K. M&A market, with rivals Kirkland close behind.
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Freshfields Leads European M&A Rankings Again in 2024, as U.S. Firms Gain Market Share
By Rick Mitchell | January 13, 2025
Total announced European M&A deal value was up about 19% in 2024, as European Central Bank rate cuts helped revive a market ‘stifled’ by borrowing costs.
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Holland & Knight Expands Corporate Practice in Texas With Former Greenberg Traurig Partner
By Alexander Lugo | February 4, 2025
Ronald Kloss joins as a shareholder in Austin to boost the firm's corporate group in Texas, a major market since the 2021 merger with Dallas-based Thompson & Knight.
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Mergers Are About People, Not Paperwork: Here’s Why
By Rudhir Krishtel | February 3, 2025
Beyond the spreadsheets, contracts, and press releases lies the real challenge—and opportunity—of a merger: bringing people together and expanding on services collectively.
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Veritext Legal Solutions Announces the Past Acquisitions of Three Alternative Dispute Resolution Firms
By Ella Sherman | February 3, 2025
Veritext, which is moving deeper into the dispute resolution space, also appointed Matthew P. York as VP of alternative dispute resolution.
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'Incredibly Complicated'? Antitrust Litigators Identify Pros and Cons of Proposed One Agency Act
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | January 31, 2025
"It would be risky to try to consolidate antitrust enforcement over to one house," Sheppard Mullin partner John Carroll said of the One Agency Act bill that would merge the FTC's Bureau of Competition into the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Trump's DOJ Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block $14B Tech Merger
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | January 30, 2025
"This proposed acquisition risks substantially lessening competition in a critically important technology market and thus poses the precise threat that the Clayton Act was enacted to prevent," U.S. attorneys alleged in a complaint seeking to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proposed merger with rival Juniper Networks Inc.
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M&A Transactions and AB 1824: Navigating New Privacy Compliance Challenges
By Nina Flax and Stephanie Hurst and Peter Wolf | January 28, 2025
This article explores the implications of AB 1824 for companies involved in M&A transactions, focusing on the new legal obligations on the buyer and the necessity of target businesses to maintain opt-out records.
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Elevate Acquires Intellectual Property Research Provider Sagacious IP
By Benjamin Joyner | January 28, 2025
The purchase, Elevate’s third in nine months, brings new IP capabilities to the legal services provider.
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Deal Watch: Deals, IPOs Flow as Banking Regulation Is Expected to Get Lighter
By Patrick Smith | January 27, 2025
Bill Stern, a partner in Goodwin Procter’s financial services practice, said the “pendulum” of regulation is due to swing back after four years of comparatively more scrutiny.
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Distressed M&A: Safe Harbor Protection Extends to Overarching Transfer
By Corinne Ball | January 27, 2025
The author writes "A Second Circuit panel issued a summary order affirming that an equity tender offer by a parent holding company funded by the proceeds of loans extended to its wholly owned subsidiary that later went bankrupt was shielded from attack by the safe harbor protections of section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code."
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E-Discovery Provider Casepoint Merges With Government Software Company OPEXUS
By Rhys Dipshan | January 27, 2025
The merger will give Casepoint exposure to almost 80% of the federal agency market, a growing client base for the e-discovery provider alongside the corporate market.
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