Freshfields and Gleiss scoop €12.5bn Austro-German bank merger
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gleiss Lutz have bagged the lead roles on Europe’s latest multi-billion euro bank merger. Freshfields laid on a four-partner team for client UniCredit on its €12.5bn purchase of Bank Austria Creditanstalt from HypoVereinsbank (HVB), advised by Gleiss Lutz. The mandate comes after Freshfields advised Italian bank UniCredit on its €15bn (£10.11bn) […]