Monthly Archives: August 2011

Davis Polk – Google to Buy Motorola Mobility

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Davis Polk is advising Qatalyst Partners LP as financial adviser to Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Google Inc. The definitive agreement for the transaction provides that Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $12.5 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

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Freshfields Advises Cinven on Acquisition of Guardian Financial Services from AEGON

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised European private equity firm, Cinven, on the agreement by which Green Day Acquisitions Limited (a company indirectly held by funds managed and/or advised by Cinven) will acquire Guardian Financial Services, the UK provider of life and pension products, from AEGON for an enterprise value of £275 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011 and is subject to regulatory approval.

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McDermott Secures $230 Million Award for Bionol Clearfield LLC

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP has secured a $230 million arbitration award for Firm client Bionol Clearfield LLC (Bionol), the Quincy, Massachusetts-founded developer of an ethanol plant located in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, from Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. (Getty). The award includes $47 million in damages incurred to date, and over $180 million in future damages.

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Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge to Merge with Wildman Harrold

Monday, August 15, 2011

The partnerships of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP are pleased to announce that the firms will merge on October 1, 2011. The new firm, with 13 offices and 650 lawyers, will be known as Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP.

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP will offer integrated services across a core group of disciplines in which the legacy firms have long enjoyed premier reputations: corporate and financial transactions, complex litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and intellectual property. The client base will consist of Fortune 500 companies, government, non-profit institutions and other private businesses.

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