Credentials

  • Fortune Brands on its participation in the £7.4 billion takeover by Pernod Ricard of Allied Domecq
  • QinetiQ Group, the leading international defence and security technology company, on its initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange, which valued the company at £1.4 billion price tag
  • Hollinger International achieving a successful conclusion to the long-running auction by the Hollinger International Group of the Telegraph Group for £729.5 million
  • Virgin Group on the £500 million listing of Virgin Mobile Holdings on the London Stock Exchange and related global share offering
  • The Department of Trade and Industry on its £48 billion nuclear clean-up programme
  • Macquarie in the £1.2 billion acquisition of the Wales and the West Gas Distribution Network from National Grid Transco by a consortium of private equity investors led by Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund
  • London Underground Limited Tube Lines, a consortium responsible for maintaining parts of the London Underground, issued £2.1 billion worth of bonds using a structure which represents a new development in the project bond market
  • Ripplewood Holdings on €620 million acquisition of Honsel from Carlyle
  • Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan on the issue of £1 billion equivalent of multicurrency mortgage backed floating rate notes by Paragon Mortgages (No. 8) PLC
  • JP Morgan as arranger of a $600 million senior secured reducing revolving credit facility for Paladin Resources, a leading independent British oil and gas company
  • Vodafone in its successful defence of proceedings brought by Jordan alleging (wrongly) breach of contract and misrepresentation in relation to an F1 sponsorship contract
  • Cambridge Antibody Technology in its high-profile High Court action launched against healthcare and pharmaceutical company Abbott in relation to royalty payments
  • Chelsfield, Stanhope and London & Continental Railways in relation to their planning proposals for the development of Stratford City
  • Roche defending Roche Diagnostics against a challenge to a commercially important UK drug formulation by Sandoz 
  • Infomedia on a dispute regarding breach of an exclusive agency agreement by the agent acting for a competitive product
  • TXU Europe Group plc in connection with the sale of its power supply and generation assets to Powergen

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