Green picks Freshfields for M&S bid
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Barry O’Brien has scooped the City’s hottest deal with a mandate to act for retail entrepreneur Philip Green on his £8bn-plus bid for Marks & Spencer (M&S), displacing usual adviser Allen & Overy. Shadowing O’Brien’s team is his former partner Tim Emmerson, now at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. Emmerson […]