Clifford Chance and Hogan Lovells won lead roles advising AMC Networks on its €750m (£467.4m) acquisition of the international content division of Liberty Global, known as Chellomedia. The purchase by AMC Networks – home to hit shows Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Walking Dead – provides it with 68 new television channels that are […]
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Karanovic & Nikolic senior partners Dejan Nikolic and Patricia Gannon presented investment opportunities in Serbia at an in-house business breakfast organised by Nunziate Magronne in Rome yesterday. Attended by 35 Italian companies with business interests in the Balkan region, presenters included Rade Berbakov of the Serbian Embassy, Banca Intesa, SACE and Sigit.
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2 Hare Court’s Jonathan Laidlaw QC replaces John Kelsey-Fry QC as Brooks’ defence counsel Rebekah Brooks’ Old Bailey phone hacking trial kicked off dramatically today with restrictions lifted that had quashed reporting of a split with a senior member of her legal team. Brooks is no longer instructing John Kelsey-Fry QC – a renowned criminal […]
Bank panel reviews are like buses – you wait for one, and there’s suddenly just no stopping those eager GCs. This week The Lawyer revealed that Citigroup is close to revealing its re-jigged and reduced Emea panel, while the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) is soon to announce its first-ever formal UK panel of legal […]
There’s only one trend in the US right now – getting hitched. Weeks after Cooley announced a combination with the Washington DC office of Dow Lohnes, Washington lobbying giant Patton Boggs has started flirting with Dallas-based Locke Lord and San Francisco’s Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has confirmed tie-up talks with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Good […]
A recent High Court decision gives some useful guidance about the extent of a facility agent’s duties and a warning of the potential risks if a facility agent acts outside the scope of those duties. This note takes a brief look at some of the key lessons from the decision. In Torre Asset Funding Ltd […]
West Country firm Follett Stock has closed its Bristol office, as its winding-up case moves through the High Court. The firm’s winding-up case went before senior High Court insolvency official registrar Clive Jones last week. Jones agreed that the case could be adjourned and would be referred to a High Court judge. Meanwhile Follett Stock […]
Deutsche Bank has reported a significant drop in its third-quarter profits after setting aside €1.2bn (£1bn) to cover legal costs. Today’s results follow investigations into allegations that employees at the bank may have played a role in the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor) to boost its trading position. Profit for the last […]
Debevoise & Plimpton, Linklaters and Irish firm Arthur Cox have won roles in the placement of a $1bn (£621.6m) seven-year Eurobond with an annual coupon rate of 5.55 per cent by Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel. The deal, which closed yesterday (28 October), is the first debt instrument issued by the company under Rule 144A/Reg […]
Washington DC firm Patton Boggs is understood to be in merger talks with US firm Locke Lord. The news comes days after San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe confirmed it had begun merger talks with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a tie-up that would create a $1.4bn US firm with two offices in London (28 October […]