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HSF, Browne Jacobson advise on sale of WHSmith’s UK high street business
WHSmith offloading high street arm to Modella Capital to focus on travel retail business
Sidley, Weil lead on Clearlake’s $7.7bn deal to take Dun & Bradstreet private
Sidley guides longtime client Clearlake as Weil advises Dun & Bradstreet on deal that ends its second stint as a public company
Cooley, Covington shepherd AstraZeneca's $1bn EsoBiotec acquisition
AstraZeneca boasts highest market capitalisation of FTSE 100, at $185bn
Wachtell, Davis Polk lead $6.7bn merger of troubled drugmakers Mallinckrodt and Endo
Hogan Lovells, Paul Weiss and Ireland’s Arthur Cox and A&L Goodbody also act in tie-up of drugmakers with shared history of opioid crisis lawsuits
Paul Hastings, Weil called in for BlackRock’s $23bn Panama Ports deal
Paul Hastings advises seller CK Hutchison as Weil guides consortium led by BlackRock
Latham, BCLP advise on Tapestry’s sale of luxury shoe brand Stuart Weitzman to Caleres
In a luxury shake-up, Tapestry divests high-end shoe company for $105m in cash to focus on Coach and Kate Spade brands
Macfarlanes and Linklaters lead on Ferrari Group’s €785m IPO
Italian-based luxury logistics company sells 25% of founding family shares to fund transaction
Travers Smith and Foley & Lardner among firms advising on Steve Madden’s Kurt Geiger acquisition
Steve Madden pays £289m in cash to acquire luxury UK brand Kurt Geiger from PE firm Cinven
A&O Shearman, Slaughters shepherd American Axle’s £1.16bn acquisition of UK car parts group Dowlais
Cravath also called in for deal that continues exodus of companies from London Stock Exchange
Arnold & Porter, Latham advise on Kim Kardashian-backed investment in 111SKIN
Reality TV star’s SKKY Partners makes minority investment in London-based luxury skincare company 111SKIN
CMA’s problems ‘greater than one man’ - competition lawyers reflect on ousting of regulator's chair
UK government cites pro-growth agenda as Competition and Markets Authority chair Marcus Bokkerink resigns
French firms Gide and Lacourte Raquin Tatar guide Kering and Ardian in luxury real estate partnership
Gucci-owner Kering sells 60% stake in prominent Paris properties to PE firm Ardian
Cravath, Davis Polk advise on Johnson & Johnson’s $14.6bn Intra-Cellular acquisition
Cravath advises longtime client J&J as it boosts key neurological drugs division
Kirkland, Latham, White & Case shepherd Constellation Energy’s $26.6bn Calpine acquisition
Deal will create largest low-emission energy supplier in the US
Kirkland tops global 2024 M&A rankings ahead of Skadden
Deal value jumps 10% in 2024 to $3.2trn with volume down 14% to 50,200