Clifford Chance Employer Profile
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Clifford Chance is the largest law firm in the world. The firm employs almost 4,000 lawyers for 28 offices in 20 countries around the world. Clifford Chance is a magic circle law firm. Its key practice areas are Corporate and Commercial, General Commercial. The firm reportedly has revenues of over one billion pounds a year.
Areas of Work
[Edit]Clifford Chance specialises in the following work areas: Arbitration, ADR, Aviation, Aerospace, Banking, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Property, Company & Commercial, Computer & IT, Construction, Corporate Finance, Corporate Tax, Crime, Defamation, EC & Competition, Employment, Environment, Insolvency, Insurance/Reinsurance, Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Multimedia, Pensions, Planning, Project Finance, Public Policy, Securities, Shipping, Telecommunications, World Trade Group.
Notable Work
[Edit]- Advised the lenders, including Citigroup and BNP Paribas, in connection with a $2.5 billion alumina refinery in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
- Acted for ING Capital and CSFB on the financing of the Water Pik acquisition by the Carlyle Group.
- Advised a consortium of private equity firms in connection with an offer to acquire Dutch media giant VNU NV in a deal valued at $11 billion.
- Represented Brazil's leading airline in its NYSE listed IPO.
- Advised Hearst-Argyle Television on a series of investments in broadcast television industry start-ups.
- Advsied Lenovo Group LTD on its acquisition of the personal computing divisions of IBM.
- Represented long-standing client Siemens in its $1.86 billion acquisition of Diagnostics Products Corporation.
- Advised Apax Partners, a leading global private equity firm, on the acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.
- Represented E*Trade in its $1.6 billion acquisition of BrownCo, the online brokerage service of JPMorgan & Co.
International Offices
[Edit]Clifford Chance has offices in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, São Paolo, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington DC.
London Office
[Edit]10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5JJ.
- Telephone: 020 7006 6006
- Fax: 020 7006 5555
- Email: contacthr@cliffordchance.com
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