Easy purchase: City firm Norton Rose advised airline easyJet on buying 15 Airbus A320 aircraft worth $1.1bn (£700m); upgrading its order for 20 A319 aircraft to 20 A320 ­aircraft, and securing options for a further 33 A320 aircraft. Airbus was advised by its in-house team.

Share swap: Magic circle firm Linklaters advised BP on a $16bn (£10bn) share-swap deal with Russian energy giant Rosneft, advised by magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Bond issue: Magic circle firm Linklaters advised a consortium of banks on the issue of a $2bn (£1.27bn) bond by Rabobank Nederland, containing a special loss absorption mechanism that allows it to comply with new Basel Committee standards on banking supervision. Rabobank was advised by its in-house team.

Water way: City firm SNR Denton advised Thames Water on a £300m, 10-year deal to outsource its metering services to Vennsys, a consortium led by water management company Veolia Water UK and advised by its in-house team.

Property play: Magic circle firm Clifford Chance advised German real estate investment company Union Investment Real Estate on the £148m sale of Whitefriars, 65 Fleet Street, London – currently let to Freshfields – to The Employee Provident Fund of Malaysia, advised by City firm Norton Rose.

Primary number: City firm Travers Smith advised Cenkos Securities and Investec Bank as brokers on medical property operator Assura Group’s £28m acquisition and subsequent stock market listing of primary care medical property and pharmacy group AH Medical Properties, advised by national firm Eversheds.