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Freshfields and Baker Botts take pole position on F1 sell off

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Legal Business
5 October 2016
Corporate and M&A

Over 100 lawyers involved as PE firm sells sport to Liberty Media

Just six months a partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Charles Hayes has led the firm’s team advising Formula One Group (F1) and CVC Capital Partners on the £6.4bn sale of F1 to Liberty Media Corporation, advised by Baker Botts.

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