Reed Smith LLP today announced the arrival of Mary Thornton Payne as a partner in its Financial Industry Group (FIG) in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Tags: Reed Smith LLP 
Monthly Archives: April 2012
White & Case Advises ITOCHU Corporation in Its €472 Million Acquisition of Metsä Fibre Shares
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised ITOCHU Corporation, a leading trading house based in Japan, on its acquisition of shares in Metsä Fibre Oy, a Finnish pulp producer.
Tags: White & Case LLP 
Bracewell Represents Chesapeake Energy Corporation in $1.25 Billion Joint Venture
Bracewell & Giuliani represented Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) in connection with a $1.25 billion joint venture with a group of investors consisting of GSO Capital Partners LP, TPG Capital, L.P., Magnetar Capital and EIG Global Energy Partners.
Tags: Bracewell LLP | Houston 
Ken Sulzer, Prominent California Class Action Lawyer, Joins Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department
Proskauer announced today that Kenneth D. Sulzer has joined the firm in Los Angeles as a Partner in its Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of its California Labor & Employment Law Group and its national Class/Collective Action Group. Mr. Sulzer was formerly a Partner and Chair of the California Labor and Employment Practice at Seyfarth Shaw.
Tags: Proskauer Rose LLP | Los Angeles 
Latham & Watkins Advises Riverstone in the $1 Billion Acquisition of Marcellus Shale Midstream Pipeline by Penn Virginia
Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Chief Gathering LLC for $1 billion in cash and equity.
Tags: Latham & Watkins LLP | New York
Simpson Thacher Represents the Underwriters in an Offering of $160 Million of Preferred Stock by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers, in connection with a registered offering of 6,400,000 shares of 7.250% Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, representing $160,000,000 in aggregate liquidation preference. The offering closed on April 11, 2012.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New York 
Squire Sanders Opens Office in Singapore
Squire Sanders has announced that it has been granted a license by the Attorney-General’s Chambers to open an office in Singapore.
Tags: Squire Patton Boggs | Singapore 
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to Expand Corporate & Securities Practice in Greater China
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, today announced that Zhan Chen will become a partner at the firm. Her practice focuses on private equity, going-private transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. She will be based primarily in Shanghai and divide her time between the firm’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices.
Tags: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Shanghai Patton Boggs Bolsters IP Strength With Addition of Four Patent Attorneys
The Dallas office of the national law firm of Patton Boggs LLP has substantially expanded its capabilities in the intellectual property arena with the addition of four lawyers formerly affiliated with the Dallas office of SNR Denton.
Tags: Squire Patton Boggs | Dallas 
Freshfields Advises SouthGobi on Proportional Takeover by Chalco and Related Cooperation Agreement
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising SouthGobi Resources Ltd, a premium coal production and development company, in relation to the proposed proportional takeover bid by Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) for up to 60% of SouthGobi and a Cooperation Agreement entered into between SouthGobi and Chalco.
Tags: Freshfields LLP | Hong Kong 