International law firm Dechert LLP advised Southpoint Limited Partnership, the joint venture between Malory Clifford’s Blackfriars Investments and Royal London Asset Management, on its successful sale of Palestra, the iconic South Bank office building currently let to Transport for London (TfL), to Deka Immobilien for £223 million. Dechert has advised in connection with the Palestra site since its original acquisition by Blackfriars in 1999.
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Tokyo, Amsterdam: Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised ING Bank N.V. (“ING”) on its sale of three-year bonds in Japan, raising JPY175.9 billion ($2.1 billion) in aggregate. This was the largest issue of JPY bonds in Japan by a foreign issuer in 2012, and one of the biggest ever fundraisings by a European issuer in Japan.
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Shartsis Friese LLP announced today that Nicole P. Dogwill has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Group. Dogwill represents companies in complex and class action litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, antitrust, unfair competition/business practices, and related contract and tort claims. She was previously a partner with Winston & Strawn in San Francisco.
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McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced that Dr. Matthias Kampshoff has joined the Firm as a partner based in its Düsseldorf office. Dr. Kampshoff will provide McDermott’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice with extensive experience in German bankruptcy law, particularly as it relates to insolvent companies, their officers, shareholders, investors as well as bankruptcy administrators and creditors.
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In a major victory for Toyota and the auto industry generally, on January 9, 2013, Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Consumer Protection Defense attorneys successfully defeated a motion for class certification in a multidistrict litigation over customer complaints related to the anti-lock brake (ABS) systems in 2010 Prius and Lexus HS25h vehicles.
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Global law firm Eversheds has advised leading energy company SSE as a shareholder in UK’s Walney offshore wind farm, which has just reached financial close on its £242 million project financing.
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The London office of international legal practice Norton Rose has advised lenders the UK Green Investment Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Siemens Bank on the financing of Dutch pension fund PGGM and Ampere Equity Fund’s interest in Walney offshore wind farms, off the coast of Cumbria.
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Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII), a provider of executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, has announced the acquisition of Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, LLC (Senn Delaney), a company which for 34 years has assisted Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies and other major non-profit organizations, institutions and government entities with shaping their cultures. Steptoe advised Senn Delaney in the transaction, with Greif & Co., a Los Angeles-based middle-market investment bank, acting as exclusive financial advisor to Senn Delaney. The deal closed on December 31, and Senn Delaney will now operate as a subsidiary of Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles from its Huntington Beach, California headquarters.
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A Weil team led by Dallas Public Company Advisory Group (PCAG) partner P.J. Himelfarb and Washington, DC PCAG associate Adé Heyliger advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd. on the US aspects of its C$5.1 billion offer for all outstanding shares of Inmet Mining Corp. (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP acted as lead Canadian counsel on this transaction.) First Quantum is a mining company with a global portfolio of copper and nickel assets in Africa, Australia, South America, and Europe, and Inmet is a global mining company based in Canada. The combined company would have a portfolio of seven producing mines and four development projects in eight countries around the world.
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