Amerada Hess
Amerada Hess makes £2.4bn bid for UK independent oil company Lasmo. Amerada Hess advised by Goldman Sachs, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Tim Emmerson) and White & Case (Timothy Goodell). Lasmo represented by Slaughter and May (Simon Phillips), Sullivan & Cromwell (Richard Morrissey), Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, Cazenove & Co and UBS Warburg.