Freshfields scoops key role on £7.5bn Gallaher bid
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has scored the lead role advising Japan Tobacco on its £7.5bn bid for British tobacco company Gallaher. Japan Tobacco today (15 December) agreed to pay £11.40 in cash per share for rival Gallaher, making it the biggest overseas acquisition by a Japanese company. Gallaher, the producers of Silk Cut and Benson & […]