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Deals comment: Simmons, Macfarlanes ride out bookstores' merger debacle.
(From The Lawyer)
Just when the merger of bookstore chains Waterstone's and Ottakar's looked set to go ahead, Tim Waterstone put a spanner in the works with an offer to buy Waterstone's from HMV. The GBP280m offer from the business's founder has been rejected by shareholders, but it was a scare that Simmons & Simmons could have done without. The firm, which represented HMV, recently won merger clearance from the Competition Commission. Macfarlanes, which also played a crucial role in getting competition ...
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