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Reassuringly expensive: Freshfields and Linklaters take biggest gulp from $260m legal fees on AB InBev deal

Reassuringly expensive: Freshfields and Linklaters take biggest gulp from $260m legal fees on AB InBev deal
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Tom Moore
26 August 2016
Corporate and M&ADeal watch

City lawyers have taken a handsome share of the $1.94bn in advisory fees generated by Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) $108bn takeover of SABMiller, with law firms receiving $261m in fees from the biggest deal in British corporate history.

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