Herbert Smith Freehills’ Singapore office has advised NASDAQ-listed Golar LNG Limited (“Golar”) on its successful bid to provide Kuwait National Petroleum Company (“KNPC”) floating storage and regasification (“FSRU”) services to support KNPC’s LNG import operations at Mina Al Ahmadi. The regasification services will be delivered via a new-build 170,000 cubic metre vessel manufactured by Samsung Heavy Industries.
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CMS has advised Norwegian oil & gas giant Statoil on the UK aspects of its US$2.65 billion sale of interests in a number of its UK and Norwegian Continental Shelf assets to Austria’s OMV. Statoil’s in-house legal team had overall responsibility for the transaction and advised on all aspects of the Norwegian part of the deal.
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Davis Polk advised The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as underwriter in connection with a Schedule B debt offering by The Korea Development Bank of US$250 million in aggregate principal amount of its 4% notes due 2016. The notes are consolidated and form a single class of notes with KDB’s US$750 million aggregate principal amount of 4% notes due 2016 issued on March 9, 2011.
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King & Spalding recruited energy lawyer M. Kathryn Marietta to its global transactions practice as a partner in its Houston office. Marietta formerly was assistant general counsel of Apache Corporation.
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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the opening of its Silicon Valley office. Scheduled to officially open its doors September 9, 2013, Winston & Strawn Silicon Valley is the seventeenth global office, and ninth U.S. office for the firm. The Silicon Valley office is a key step in expanding Winston & Strawn’s intellectual property litigation practice and presence on the West Coast.
Tags: Winston & Strawn LLP | Silicon ValleyDavis Polk advised ARM Holdings plc in connection with the acquisition by ARM Limited of Sensinode Oy. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Porter Wright welcomes antitrust litigator, Jay L. Levine, as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Levine will serve clients from Porter Wright’s Washington, D.C., office.
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Justin Angelo, who represents major financial institutions in a wide range of consumer financial services litigation matters, has joined Ballard Spahr’s nationally recognized Consumer Financial Services Group in its Manhattan office, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today.
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Foley announced today that Beth Boland has joined the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice as a partner in the Boston office.
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