City pair act as catalysts in ICI mega-deal
Twenty-three lawyers from Freshfields – including 11 partners – and around 20 from Slaughter and May helped engineer ICI’s massive £4.9bn cash acquisition of Unilever’s four speciality chemicals businesses, National Starch, Quest, Unichema and Crosfield. Unilever had initially put the four businesses up for open auction in February. The company’s chief counsel, Steve Williams, said: […]