White & Case Advises Saudi Aramco in Joint Venture with China Petrochemical Corporation to Build Refinery

Global law firm White & Case LLP represented Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on its joint venture with China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) to build, own and operate a grassroots full conversion oil refinery to be located in Yanbu’, Saudi Arabia. Once completed, the new refinery will have capacity to process 400,000 barrels per day of heavy crude oil and will produce a full slate of refined products.

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Shearman & Sterling Advises on Registered Shelf Takedown of Senior Notes by AmeriGas in Connection with its Acquisition of Heritage Propane

Shearman & Sterling represented AmeriGas Finance Corp. and AmeriGas Finance LLC, as co-issuers (the Issuers), and AmeriGas Partners, L.P., as guarantor (AmeriGas), in connection with a registered shelf takedown of $550,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.75% Senior Notes due 2020 and $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.00% Senior Notes due 2022.

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Happy New Year!

2011 marked an exceptionally productive year for Kinney Recruiting, both in our Domestic and International groups. After deep, recession-fueled cuts to lawyer head counts at most major law firms in 2008 and 2009 (and a cautious 2010), law firm and in-house hiring rebounded in an exciting and pronounced way that only looks to continue in 2012. Internationally, Kinney once again placed the most lawyers in the major Asia markets, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing. To celebrate, in December we embarked on a 10-day off-site meeting in Hong Kong and Macau with all our recruiters. It was a great opportunity to spend time with far-flung colleagues from Russia, Asia and other parts of the U.S. and it allowed us the chance to continue to share best practices and techniques for continued success by all Kinney recruiters.

In the domestic market, we had success “coast to coast,” making placements with firms of all size in markets from New York to the Silicon Valley (and quite a few Texas markets in between . . .).  We had the privilege to work with some truly exceptional candidates and to connect them with strong opportunities whether those opportunities were local or across the country.

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