Kirkland & Ellis LLP Achieves $5.15 Billion Settlement for Tronox Environmental and Tort Creditors

Monday, April 7, 2014

On April 3, 2014, the Anadarko Litigation Trust and the United States reached an historic $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to resolve the lawsuit that Kirkland & Ellis filed and successfully prosecuted challenging Kerr-McGee Corporation’s spin-off of Tronox in 2005 as a fraudulent transfer. This is the largest environmental enforcement recovery ever by the Department of Justice. On December 12, 2012, Judge Allan Gropper of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a 166-page opinion finding Kerr-McGee liable for actual and constructive fraudulent transfer.

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Paul Hastings Represents Joint Book Runners in Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.’s $255 Million Follow-on Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

Monday, April 7, 2014

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Securities and Morgan Stanley as joint book-running managers for Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.’s (NYSE: BXMT) public offering of class A common stock. More >>

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Philipp Windemuth joins Dentons Moscow and Berlin offices with a team of lawyers

Friday, April 4, 2014

Philipp Windemuth has joined Dentons’ Russian, German and US Corporate practice as a partner. Philipp joins Dentons from Orrick. Specializing in M&A, real estate and financing transactions, he will be based in Dentons’ Moscow and Berlin offices. Philipp joins together with Of Counsels Olga Sandlerand Dr. Joachim Homeister and Associate Elena Homeister.

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Eversheds opens third German office in capital city and confirms merger talks with German partner firm

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Heisse Kursawe Eversheds, the German arm of global law firm Eversheds has announced today the opening of a third German office in Berlin.

The Berlin office headed by esteemed employment partner Dr. Stefan Kursawe will cover all areas of commercial law, with a particular emphasis on public law, procurement law and real estate law.

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