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Slaughters and Davis Polk face off as MasterCard buys UK payments firm

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Legal Business
21 July 2016
Corporate and M&ADeal watch

Slaughter and May rubbed shoulders with Davis Polk & Wardwell in the second major announced deal this week, this time opposite the Wall Street firm on the acquisition of British payments system company VocaLink by New York-based MasterCard.

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