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December 2015
Date | Sector | Deal | Value | Firms involved |
8th | Finance | GE's Pounds 3.8bn loan sale to consortium | Pounds 3.8bn |
Allen & Overy (GE Capital), Berwin Leighton Paisner, K&L Gates (investment consortium), Freshfields (consortium/HSBC), Clifford Chance (Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch) |
2nd | Transport | Carlyle's RAC sale |
| Clifford Chance (CVC Capital Partners), Linklaters (Carlyle), Travers Smith (RAC management), Freshfields (GIC) |
November 2015
Date | Sector | Deal | Value | Firms involved |
26th | Finance | Wincor Nixdorf and Diebold merger | Pounds 1.2bn | Freshfields (Wincor Nixdorf), Sullivan & Cromwell (Diebold), Simpson Thacher (JPMorgan Chase/Credit Suisse) |
23rd | Pharma | Pfizer and Allergan's $160bn merger | $160bn |
Skadden, Wachtell, Morgan Lewis, Clifford Chance, A&L Goodbody (Pfizer), Debevoise & Plimpton (Guggenheim Securities and Goldman Sachs), Cleary Gottlieb, Willkie Farr, Arthur Cox, Weil Gotshal, Latham & Watkins (Allergan) |
17th | Telecoms | Liberty Global's acquisition of Cable & Wireless | Pounds 3.5bn |
Slaughter and May, Paul Weiss (Cable & Wireless Communications), Shearman & Sterling, Ropes & Gray, Wragge Lawrence Graham (Liberty Global), Skadden,Herbert Smith Freehills (Goldman Sachs), Allen & Overy (banks) |
13th | Finance | Northern Rock asset sale | Pounds 13bn | Slaughter and May (UK Asset Resolution), Allen & Overy (banks), Linklaters (Cerberus), Hogan Lovells (TSB Bank) |
11th | Retail | Miller Coors divestment - (ABInBev/SABMiller merger) | $12bn |
Kirkland & Ellis, Cleary Gottlieb (Molson Coors), Freshfields, Sullivan & Cromwell, Cravath (ABInBev), Linklaters, Hogan Lovells (SABMiller), Allen & Overy (lenders),Clifford Chance (ABInBev shareholders), Macfarlanes, Herbert Smith Freehills, Wachtell, Simpson Thacher (SABMiller shareholders) |
10th | Finance | ABN AMRO listing |
| De Brauw, Davis Polk (ABN AMRO), Allen & Overy (NL Financial Investments), Stibbe, Shearman & Sterling (Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Citigroup) |
10th | Finance | GE Capital offloads Australian assets | Pounds 888m | King & Wood Mallesons, Minter Ellison (GE Capital), Ashurst, Kirkland & Ellis (Sankaty Advisors), Herbert Smith Freehills (Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, National Australia Bank) |
10th | Consumer | Gym Group IPO |
| Allen & Overy (Gym Group), Clifford Chance (Numis Securities and Barclays) |
3rd | Media | Activision's purchase of Candy Crush maker | $5.9bn | Debevoise & Plimpton, Allen & Overy, Mason Hayes (Activision Blizzard), William Fry, Fenwick & West (King Digital) |
3rd | Pharma | Shire purchases Dyax | $5.9bn | Slaughter and May, Ropes & Gray, Davis Polk (Shire), Sullivan & Cromwell (Dyax) |
2nd | Finance | Visa Inc acquires Visa Europe | Pounds 15.1bn | Linklaters (Visa Europe), Macfarlanes, Wachtell, Milbank (Visa Inc) |
October 2015
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