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The IT crowd: Travers, Kirkland and Freshfields line up as Micro Focus seals $8.8bn HP deal

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Legal Business · 8 September 2016 · 2 min read
Corporate and M&A Kirkland & Ellis Travers Smith

Travers Smith and Kirkland & Ellis have teamed up to advise UK tech firm Micro Focus on its $8.8bn deal for Hewlett-Packard’s software business.

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