Search results for

The $45 billion mega-merger between General Electric Company and Honeywell International, the largest ever industrial acquisition, has attracted a crowd of interested firms. Arnold & Porter has deployed a heavyweight team of antitrust lawyers to advise General Electric, led by firm chairman Michael Sohn and including head of antitrust William Baer. Clifford Chance has been retained for competition work outside the US and Canada. Simon Baxter, Chris Bright and Marlene Van Kerckhove lead a team including lawyers from London, Brussels, Budapest, Prague and Warsaw.

Pay rises at law firms to counter the threat of losing lawyers to other industries are causing expenses to rise faster than revenues, according to a November survey.

The EU's committee of wise men has criticised the sluggish pace at which Europe has been moving towards increased market harmonization.

SJ Berwin has raided Baker & McKenzie's German venture capital and private equity funds group, as the UK firm's German arm details plans to establish a presence in the emerging Munich market.

The US is an increasingly popular hunting ground for non-US companies looking to make acquisitions. Before they do so, however, they are well advised to prepare to meet the regulatory environment. Mark Bergman, head of the securities group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, discusses the options and dangers ahead of them

UBS Warburg's former global general counsel has joined Clifford Chance, boosting the launch of a market conduct group at the UK firm designed to increase its capital markets regulatory focus.

Korea has made a remarkable economic recovery began to stall in mid-2000. The Korea Stock Exchange’s new rules on foreign issuers are an attempt to restart the recovery by increasing diversity and liquidity in the market. John Kwon and Charles Sohn of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong review the amendments

Rehabilitation law to increase DIP financingKomatsu Koma & Nishikawa, Tokyo

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's new Asian acquisition finance group has helped Mercury, an acquisition company owned by Citicorp Venture Capital, the Carlyle Group and Prudential, to acquire the profitable remnants of Daewoo Telecom for 330 billion won ($294 million).

Ford Credit closed a £250 million ($350 million) securitization in late November, its first in the UK since 1991. The transactions raises funds backed by receivables from motor vehicle conditional sales.