The Florida business law firm Berger Singerman LLP is pleased to announce that attorney team members Daniel Lampert, Franklin Caplan, Phyllis Bean, and Iryna Ivashchuk, recently represented Southern Air Inc. (SAI) in a $700 million aircraft lease and flight services restructuring involving four Boeing 777F cargo aircraft. The deal closed on January 24, 2014.

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Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority closed a public-private partnership (P3) deal that will pump $100 million into redeveloping and expanding the airport over the next 40 years. Faegre Baker Daniels LLP served as lead deal counsel for the airport authority on this transaction. More >>

Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised on two motorway restructurings, the Maliakos-Kleidi and the Elefsina-Korinthos-Patras-Pyrgos-Tsakona motorways in Greece, with a combined value of €3.1 billion.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Accelrys, Inc. (ACCL), a San Diego-based leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, in its $750 million sale to Dassault Systèmes, the world leader in 3D design software.

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Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised long-standing client F&C Asset Management plc (F&C) in connection with a recommended £708 million cash acquisition by BMO Global Asset Management (Europe) Limited (BMO Europe). BMO Europe is a wholly–owned subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal. The proposed acquisition was announced on 28 January 2014 and is to be effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement.

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Simpson Thacher represented the initial purchasers, led by joint book-running managers, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Jefferies LLC, and by co-managers, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and DVB Capital Markets LLC, in the sale of an aggregate principal amount of $300 million 6.875% Senior Notes due 2019 by Intrepid Aviation Group Holdings, LLC (“Intrepid”) and Intrepid Finance Co. Intrepid is a global aircraft leasing company that acquires and leases commercial passenger aircraft under long-term leases to a diverse group of airlines throughout the world.

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Willkie client Liberty Resources II LLC, a Denver-based oil and gas company, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire oil and gas assets in North Dakota’s Williston Basin for $455 million. This is the first acquisition by Liberty II since it announced in November 2013 a $350 million equity commitment from funds managed by energy private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC and other investors. Willkie represented Liberty II and Riverstone in the deal.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), the world’s largest bank by assets, on its acquisition for around US$770 million of a majority stake in Standard Bank plc (SB plc). More >>

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented international lenders Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and Itaú BBA International plc in providing approximately $150 million in financing for the purchase of an innovative compact semi-submersible multi-service vessel destined for Brazil’s most productive offshore oil and gas location.

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