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Freshfields has advised M&G plc on the entry into a long-term strategic partnership across asset management and life insurance with Dai-ichi Life Holdings, the largest listed life insurance company in Japan. Dai-ichi Life intends to acquire a c.15% shareholding in M&G.

Global law firm Freshfields advises a group of RCF lenders in relation to the EUR 24 billion refinancing transaction implemented at the level of Altice France and Altice France Holding.

Global law firm Freshfields has advised SMS group, a global leading technology and services provider in metals plant engineering, on the acquisition of an agglomeration and calcination technologies business from the listed Finnish technology company Metso.

Freshfields announced today that Aly Love has joined the firm as an M&A partner based in the Bay Area and will serve as Co-Head of U.S. Tech & Life Sciences M&A. 

Global law firm Freshfields has advised Dutch Pension Fund ABP on its new strategic partnership with CBRE Investment Management to target newly built residential assets in the Netherlands, with a focus on affordability and sustainability.