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Garrigues and Slaughter and May

Corporate Law 2011

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Rankings at a glance
Award levelStand-out
InnovationA benchmark consolidation in the airline industry
Originality7
Rationale8
Impact8
Total23
DescriptionWhen Garrigues was appointed to advise Iberia, already negotiating a merger with British Airways, the lawyers proposed a new approach that avoided a takeover under Spanish law. With Slaughter and May, BA's advisers, a new corporate structure was developed without which, the clients say, the deal would not have gone ahead.