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The corporate finance team advised on 75 corporate finance transactions globally (excluding deals for the banking sector), an increase of 18% on its £6 billion aggregate deal value in 2019.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed immigration specialist John Vassiliou to its sector-leading immigration team amid rising demand from clients for business and personal immigration advice following the UK’s departure from the European Union.

Dentons’ Scottish private client team is joining Shepherd and Wedderburn, creating one of Scotland’s largest private client practices and expanding the specialist asset protection, personal tax planning, trusts, executries and succession planning support available to clients.

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, along with English counsel Ashurst LLP, has advised a consortium of investors who, via investment vehicle Zander Topco Limited, have acquired ASCO Group Ltd (ASCO), the largest global provider of outsourced logistics services and solutions to the oil and gas industry.