Despite corporate partners attesting to a summer lull (if only by their absence from the office), the past month brought with it a number of headline European M&A deals, including a €17bn (including €9.8bn of net debt) bid for Dutch telecoms company Koninklijke KPN (KPN), which turned to Allen & Overy (A&O)’s Netherlands office on the deal.
The bid by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s telecoms company América Móvil for the remaining 70% in KPN saw longstanding adviser A&O field a team led by Dutch corporate partner Jan Louis Burggraaf.
Clifford Chance, led by Amsterdam M&A partner Hans Beerlage, advised América Móvil alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, led by New York capital markets partner Nicolas Grabar and corporate partners Neil Whoriskey and Amy Shapiro.
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