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Deal watch: Corporate activity in April 2015

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GE RESTRUCTURING BRINGS IN RAFT OF ADVISERS

A host of firms picked up work on General Electric (GE)’s restructuring, fielding large cross-border teams as the industrial giant sold $26.5bn of real estate assets and announced it would divest most of GE Capital’s other holdings. Hogan Lovells led for GE on the real estate sale, with buyers The Blackstone Group and Wells Fargo represented by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Dechert respectively.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is advising GE on the wider restructuring, which will return up to $90bn to shareholders, alongside Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell.