A handful of Global 100 firms scored key roles on two signifcant European deals this week, as Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Linklaters, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised on the recently announced €40bn merger between France’s Lafarge and Switzerland’s Holcim.
In telecoms, Ropes & Gray, Allen & Overy, and Latham & Watkins led on the €15bn deal that saw French multinational mass media company Vivendi sell its phone unit SFR to European cable group Altice.
