It’s for you: Birmingham firm Wragge & Co advised the management of mobile phone retailer Phones 4u on its sale to private equity house BC Partners, for an undisclosed sum.

US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges advised private equity company Providence Equity, the majority stakeholder in Phones 4u, while London and Edinburgh firm Dickson Minto advised BC Partners.

Brands on the run: Magic circle firm Slaughter and May advised consumer brand giant Unilever on selling Sanex, its personal care division, to Colgate-Palmolive for $940m (£587m).

Unilever simultaneously acquired Colgate’s Columbian laundry detergent business for $215m (£134m), advised by US firm Herrick Feinstein. US firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised Colgate on both transactions.

Crest of a wave: City firm Simmons & Simmons advised hedge fund BlueCrest on acquiring alternative investment manager Man Group’s stake in the BlueCrest Group for $633m (£395m), and on acquiring retired cofounder Bill Reeves’ remaining interests in the BlueCrest Group.

Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised banks HSBC and RBS on financing the acquisition, while magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May advised Man Group and Bill Reeves respectively.

Taking AIM: City firm Herbert Smith advised sports retailer JJB Sports on its planned switch from the London Stock Exchange main market to the Alternative Investment Market, and on raising £65m in capital.

City firm Norton Rose, magic circle firm Linklaters and US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised JJB’s shareholders, with Bank of Scotland, JJB’s lender, advised by City firm Hogan Lovells.

Pass the ports: Linklaters advised fund manager Arcus Infrastructure on its £760m bid for ports operator Forth Ports, advised by Anglo-Scottish firm McGrigors.