Freshfields, the £9bn M&S bid and just a touch of hubris
How Slaughter and May dashed the magic circle firm’s dreams of the biggest takeover bid of 2004 On Thursday 3 June at 3.35pm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate finance head Barry O’Brien left Court 70 of the Royal Courts of Justice to stand outside with the media. It was an attempt to demonstrate how seriously the […]