Linklaters is home to one of the world’s pre-eminent corporate/M&A practices covering the full range of M&A work, including public takeovers, complex multi-jurisdictional deals, joint ventures, disposals and corporate restructurings.
Cross-border M&A is a particular specialism, involving the co-ordination of large teams across different jurisdictions.
The global corporate practice is extremely well integrated across Linklaters’ network of offices and has transactional experience across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. This extensive global reach and expertise allows Linklaters to deliver exceptional service to clients anywhere in the world.
Advising leading corporates and financial institutions, the firm has appeared on many of the most challenging, high profile and significant transactions of recent years. In addition to their technical expertise clients rely on the team’s market and sector knowledge and commercial advice.
Corporate/M&A is complemented by market-leading tax, real estate, employment, banking, pensions, competition/antitrust and regulatory teams.
The practice has a proven track record which is evidenced by top tier positions in the legal directories and M&A league tables.
Corporate/M&A highlights include advising:
- GDF Suez on its reverse takeover of International Power
- Zain, a subsidiary of Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. on its disposal of Zain Africa B.V. to Bharti
- Korea National Oil Company (KNOC) on its takeover of Dana Petroleum plc
- BP plc on its acquisition of oil and gas properties in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico from Devon Energy Corporation
- COMSTAR in the largest Russian public M&A deal, involving COMSTAR and Mobile Telesystems OJSC. This is the largest Russian telecoms merger ever, and the largest Russian public M&A deal
- BP on its US$9bn joint venture with Reliance – the largest investment of capital into India on a single deal
- E.ON on the £4bn disposal of its UK electricity distribution business (Central Networks) to PPL
- Glencore on its restructuring from a private partnership to a US$50bn listed company and its accompanying US$10bn IPO – the largest IPO in London and the first simultaneous London and Hong Kong listing
- Vallar on its acquisition of coal mining business and step up to premium listing
- The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the sale of its RBS England and Wales and NatWest Scotland branch based business to Santander UK plc
