Big Deals
Tehran welcomes second international law firm
Central Asian law firm Colibri Law has partnered with Iranian firm Gheidi & Associates to become the second international law firm after CMS to open an office in Tehran. The office will focus largely on corporate M&A matters, including joint venture...
read moreGoodwin Proctor woos team from KWM to open Paris office
Aiding growth momentum across their private equity practice, Boston-based Goodwin Proctor is launching their tenth office globally in Paris.The team will be comprised of six corporate partners who recently resigned from the local office of King & Wood Mallesons...
read moreDeal: Mayer Brown brokers TransCanada merger
Mayer Brown announced that it represented TransCanada Corporation in connection with entering into an agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which it will acquire Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc., a Houston-based company that owns, operates and develops a network of...
read moreGarrigues expands LATAM presence to Chile
By Lauren Biszewski, Esq. Expanding on a presence of more than 100 attorneys across various offices in Latin America, Iberian law firm Garrigues has subsumed Chilean firm Avedaño Merino. The corporate powerhouse, which specializes in M&A, tax, real estate and...
read moreBiopharma M&A records unprecedented growth in 2015
EY released their annual Firepower Index and Growth Gap Report last week, revealing a hotbed of lucrative M&A activity in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal activity for 2015 exceeded 300 billion (USD) as companies scrambled to address growth gaps and fine tune...
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