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Freshfields and Skadden shepherd eBay-backed Adevinta’s €14bn take private
Wachtell, Clifford Chance and Cleary also among firms called in for one of Europe’s biggest buyouts this year
Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills steer Mars’ £534m Hotel Chocolat acquisition
Freshfields acts for longtime client Mars as HSF counsels AIM-listed Hotel Chocolat
Abry Partners to buy legal rankings platform Chambers in deal worth £400m
UK private equity firm Inflexion had owned Chambers since 2018 and secured a 4.7x return on its investment
Kirkland & Ellis among law firms advising on WeWork bankruptcy case
Flexible office space provider filed for bankruptcy protection in the US on Monday
Kirkland, Milbank and Covington shepherd Bain’s $5.3bn Guidehouse acquisition
Kirkland advises marquee client Bain as Milbank and Covington counsel Guidehouse and tech investor owner Veritas
Slaughter and May, Travers Smith shepherd Vodafone’s €5bn sale of Spanish arm to Zegona
Slaughters advises longtime client Vodafone as Travers Smith counsels listed TMT investor Zegona
Paul Weiss, Wachtell shepherd Chevron’s $53bn Hess Corp mega merger
Deal marks second major transaction in oil industry this month
Freshfields, Skadden lead on Deutsche Bahn’s Arriva sale to I Squared Capital
Freshfields acts for Deutsche Bahn in deal valuing Arriva at reported €1.6bn
Weil steers Microsoft through final stage of $69bn Activision Blizzard merger clearance
Global antitrust counsel advised on 17 review processes worldwide to secure largest-ever gaming industry deal
Davis Polk, Gibson Dunn lead on ExxonMobil $60bn mega merger
Oil giant’s acquisition of Gibson Dunn client Pioneer Natural Resources marks largest transaction so far this year
Kirkland, Latham act in Birkenstock $1.5bn US IPO
Kirkland counsels German shoemaker on New York Stock Echange listing as Latham acts for underwriters
Linklaters, Herbert Smith Freehills called in for Metro Bank rescue
Deal sees HSF client Spaldy Investments become embattled high street bank’s majority shareholder
Sullivan & Cromwell hangs on to number one spot in global M&A legal advisor rankings
US firm topped ranking by deal value, narrowly ahead of Kirkland & Ellis and Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to Refinitiv
Wachtell, Morgan Lewis latest to benefit from Big Food consolidation as JM Smucker snaps up Hostess Brands
Deal valued at $5.6bn to buy Twinkie owner follows acquisitions by Campbell Soup and Mars
Raft of top-tier firms advise on Smurfit Kappa’s $11bn acquisition of WestRock
Advisers include Matheson, Freshfields, Wachtell, Clifford Chance, Cravath and Paul Weiss