Deals
Trio of top M&A firms guide CoreWeave’s $9bn Core Scientific AI acquisition
David Polk and Kirkland & Ellis advise CoreWeave as Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz acts for Core Scientific in deal to meet AI power needs
Weil, Goodwin called in for L’Oréal’s acquisition of Color Wow
Deal strengthens L’Oréal’s professional products portfolio and positions Color Wow for global brand growth
Quartet of firms guide Apollo-backed Athora’s £5.7bn takeover of UK pension insurer PIC
Sidley Austin and A&O Shearman advise Athora as HSF Kramer guides PIC and Slaughter and May advises PIC shareholders including CVC
Macfarlanes, Uría Menéndez line up opposite A&O Shearman to advise on Santander’s £2.7bn TSB acquisition
Top UK and Spanish independent firms guide seller Sabadell as A&O Shearman counsels buyer Santander
Weil, Slaughter and May guide Advent’s £4.4bn Spectris takeover
Weil advises Advent as Slaughters acts for Spectris in one of the biggest recent takeovers of a London-listed business
Travers Smith, Simpson Thacher guide £1.7bn NHS landlord take-private
Travers guides Assura on acquisition by Simpson Thacher-repped KKR and Stonepeak
A&O Shearman leads in L’Oréal’s €1bn Medik8 acquisition from Inflexion
Deal underscores L’Oréal’s commitment to boosting its position in the rapidly growing dermocosmetics market
Three firms steer Kimberly-Clark sale of majority stake in international tissue unit to Brazil’s Suzano
Kirkland & Ellis and Baker McKenzie guide Kleenex tissue-maker Kimberly-Clark as Freshfields counsels Suzano
Cravath, Winston & Strawn guide Chart’s $19bn Flowserve merger
Winston guides Chart and Cravath acts for Flowserve in deal to create gas and liquid technologies leader
HSF teams up with Kramer ahead of merger for London reinsurance IPO
Willkie Farr and Latham also called in for Third Point Investors’ proposed all-share combination with Malibu Life Reinsurance and re-IPO
Wachtell, Latham advise on $34.5bn mega-deal between Charter and Cox
Deal will create US cable giant and follows Charter’s acquisition of Liberty Media’s broadband business last year
Linklaters, Paul Weiss and Sidley called in for Evri’s DHL merger to forge UK delivery giant
Linklaters counsels longtime client DHL as Paul Weiss and Sidley act for Evri
Latham, Willkie Farr guide Coinbase’s $2.9bn Deribit acquisition
Latham advises Coinbase with Willkie across the table in crypto industry’s biggest deal to date
Sidley unveils triple partner raid on Weil in London private funds push
Weil’s global private funds co-head, Ed Gander, to be joined by Stephen Fox and Peter Boulle in coming weeks
White & Case, Milbank, Willkie Farr guide NRG Energy’s $12bn LS Power deal
White & Case counsels NRG Energy in deal to acquire fleet of natural gas-fired power plants from LS Power, repped by Willkie Farr and Milbank
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