Abbey National targets Bank of Scotland in a merger bid worth £24bn. Abbey National advised by Slaughter and May (Frances Murphy and William Underhill), Lehman Brothers and UBS Warburg. Bank of Scotland advised by Herbert Smith (Michael Walter), Credit Suisse First Boston and Cazenove.
A View from Brussels
The Brussels legal services market has seen substantial changes in the last few years. Following the arrival of UK and US firms and the tidal wave of mergers and alliances, the law firms’ landscape in the capital of Europe is composed of two groups: the first comprises five large firms with more than 100 fee-earners […]
