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Deals tracker: Linklaters
| Date | Client | Matter | Deal value | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Sep 15 | SABMiller | AB InBev and SABMiller’s merger | £150bn | |
| 8 Sep 15 | Amlin | Mitsui’s offer for insurer Amlin | £3.5bn | |
| 4 Sep 15 | Prairie Mining | Prairie Mining’s triple listing | The company now has listings on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and Australian Securities Exchange | |
| 12 Aug 15 | Symantec | Carlyle Group purchases Veritas | $8bn | |
| 12 Aug 15 | The Economist | Pearson’s sale of The Economist | £469m | The same Freshfields team advised Pearson less than a month ago on its £844m sale of the Financial Times to Nikkei. |
| 31 Jul 15 | Delphi | Delphi purchases automotive group HellermannTyton | £1bn | |
| 20 Jul 15 | Schneider | Schneider’s reverse takeover of Aveva | £1.3bn | |
| 17 Jul 15 | Anglo American | Anglo American sells £992m Lafarge Tarmac stake | £992m | The sale follows the completion of Lafarge and Holcim’s $40bn merger. |
| 14 Jul 15 | Alent | Platform buys Alent | $2.3bn | |
| 1 Jul 15 | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation | GE sells European sponsor finance business | $100bn | General Electric is planning to sell $100bn (£63.6bn) worth of assets by the end of the year. |
| 26 Jun 15 | Delhaize | Ahold Delhaize merger | £38.5bn | The deal will make the chain one of the largest food retailers across the United States and Europe |
| 9 Jun 15 | Apollo Global Management | Apollo’s acquisition of Verallia | €2.94bn | Verallia is managed by Saint-Gobain and manufactures glass bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry. |
| 15 May 15 | Brait South Africa | Clifford Chance and Linklaters advise on £780m New Look sale to Brait | £780m | |
| 16 Apr 15 | Brait South Africa | Acquisition of 80 per cent shares in Virgin Active | £682m | Linklaters previously advised Brait in 2013 on the acquisition of Lil-Lets from Electra |
| 20 Mar 15 | Lloyds Banking Group | Sale of TSB to Banco Sabadell | £1.7bn | Linklaters is on the bank’s panel |
| 18 Mar 15 | Borealis + consortium of investors | Sale of Swedish power company Fortum Distribution | £4.8bn | Previously advised Borealis on the acquisition of Net4Gas from RWE |
| 25 Feb 15 | Aldermore | Aldermore IPO | First time instruction for Linklaters after winning pitch process | |
| 6 Feb 15 | Tunisian Government | First unassisted international bond in post-Arab Spring Tunisia | $1bn | First international sale of Tunisian government debt since Arab Spring kicked off in 2011 |
| 3 Feb 15 | Holcim | Holcim and Lafarge sell off assets before merger | €6.5bn | Construction giants Holcim and Lafarge sell off assets ahead of their €40bn merger. |
| 29 Jan 15 | Dejphon Chansiri | Acquisition of Sheffield Wednesday FC from Milan Mandaric | DLA Piper also acted for Chansiri | |
| 28 Jan 15 | Hutchison Whampoa | Hutchison Whampoa’s acquisition of O2 | £10.25bn | If the deal overcomes competition hurdles it would create the UK’s largest mobile group. Freshfields and Baker & McKenzie also acted for Hutchison Whampoa |
| 24 Nov 14 | Friends Life | Aviva’s £5.6bn merger with Friends Life | £5.6bn | A tie-up between the two companies would create the UK’s leading insurance, savings and asset management firm by customer numbers. |
| 5 Nov 14 | Yildiz | Acquisition of United Biscuits | £2bn | One of the largest private equity deals of the year |
| 29 Sep 14 | Carlyle | Sale of RAC to Singaporean soveriegn wealth fund GIC | Carlyle chose to instruct Linklaters rather than Clifford Chance, who advised on the acquisition of RAC in 2011. Carlyle was expected to float RAC on the stock exchange but chose to sell, following a dual track process. | |
| 22 Sep 14 | Microsoft | Acquisition of Mojang | $2.5bn | Microsoft’s biggest acquisition since it took over Nokia’s mobile phone unit in 2013 for $7.4bn |
| 4 Sep 14 | Balfour Beatty | Balfour Beatty’s sale of its professional services division Parsons Brinckerhoff to WSP Global | $1.24bn | Balfour Beatty hired Pinsent Masons as its go-to legal adviser in March 2013, but turned to Linklaters and MoFo on this particular deal |
| 16 Jun 14 | True Corporation | China Mobile’s investment in True Corporation | $880m | |
| 12 May 14 | Banks incl. Citigroup, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Cazenove, UBS. | Saga’s IPO | £3bn |
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