Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills have been instructed to wrap up the £534m buy-out of boutique chocolatier Hotel Chocolat by confectionary conglomerate Mars. The magic circle firm is advising Mars, fielded by corporate partners Piers Prichard Jones and Victoria Sigeti, senior associate Angus Scott and associate Nikki Willson. Mars is a longstanding client […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired a new City partner, hitting up the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for its latest recruit. Colin Raftery has spent more than seven years at the CMA and has recently spent the last five years as a senior director of mergers. He is also an alumnus of the magic circle […]
Gregor Fisken Ltd v Carl Last week the Chancery Court ruled on a contract dispute over the sale of a Ferrari 250 GTO valued at $44 million. During the negotiation the defendant declared that the original gearbox was not in the GTO. The gearbox had been sent for repairs and was in the possession of […]