Our corporate practice is at the heart of our firm's activities, embracing:
- Public and private mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Securities offerings
- Private equity (part of our industries group)
We provide expert advice on many of the largest and most complex transactions - frequently with a cross-border perspective. Acting for many international corporate and investment banking clients, we specialise in providing a seamless service across our network of offices and across complementary practice areas.
Our corporate lawyers are involved in many of our industry sector groups where they are able to combine detailed industry knowledge with their core legal skills. Examples of these industries include technology, media and telecoms, financial institutions, energy, chemicals, retail and transport.
Corporate Governance
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News
Freshfields advised Vita Group on the sale of its subsidiary ELIAN to the U.S. group A. Schulman View
Freshfields tops China M&A league tables in 2011 View
Briefings
Directors’ remuneration – the government’s proposals for reform View
Reform of the EU Takeover Directive and of German Takeover Law View
Awards
M&A team of the year - International Financial Law Review: European Awards (2010)
Best domestic M&A deal - Finance Asia Awards for Achievement (2009)
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