Perkins Coie represented client T-Mobile US, Inc. in a $5.6 billion secondary offering of senior unsecured notes by its majority stockholder, Deutsche Telekom AG. The deal closed October 16 and is, according to media reports, the second-largest high-yield debt transaction of the year. It is also the eighth-largest speculative-grade deal on record, or the fifth-largest when counting deals sold entirely at one time. (Source: Forbes)
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Joseph Landolfi has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the firm’s Tax Practice Group in Boca Raton.
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Baker & McKenzie Budapest has advised state-owned Hungarian Electricity Works on its acquisition of German utility E.On’s entire Hungarian gas business, including gas trade and gas storage businesses. Completion of this deal sees a significant part of the energy sector re-nationalized, following privatization in the late 1990s.
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Hogan Lovells has advised the general partner of Trophy Property Development L.P. (the “Fund” or “Trophy Property“) on a restructuring of the Fund’s underlying real estate assets in China, and its internal management (the “Restructuring“).
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Jerold B. Schnayer, a well-known intellectual property lawyer, has joined Locke Lord’s Chicago office as a Partner in the IP Litigation Practice Group.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Boral Limited on its US$1.6 billion 50/50 plasterboard and ceilings joint venture with USG Corporation (announced 17 October 2013). The transaction combines USG’s best-in-class building products technologies and strategic assets in Asia, New Zealand and the Middle East with Boral’s leading plasterboard manufacturing and distribution footprint in Asia and Australia.
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Morrison & Foerster announced today that Jeffrey A. Chester, a well-known and highly-respected project finance and renewable energy lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in Los Angeles. Mr. Chester advises on global capital-raising transactions for the renewable and alternative energy space. He has closed more than 50 wind-power and two dozen solar-power project financings, including a 1,550-megawatt power purchase agreement by Southern California Edison, the largest wind-power purchase agreement in history.
Tags: Morrison & Foerster LLP | Los AngelesMorrison & Foerster today announced that it is representing Ascendent Capital Partners, a China-focused private equity firm, in the proposed acquisition by Wumart Stores, Inc. of a minority interest in C.P. Lotus Corporation, the retail flagship company in China for the Charoen Pokphand Group, for approximately HK$548 million, the proposed acquisition by C.P. Lotus of a minority interest in Wumart for approximately of HK$2.9 billion, and the proposed acquisition by Wumart of C.P. Lotus’s operations in certain provinces in China, including Beijing and Shanghai, for approximately HK$2.34 billion announced yesterday.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Frank S. Hong has joined the Firm’s Corporate group as a partner in its Shanghai office. Mr. Hong’s practice focuses on advising multi-national corporations on Chinese inbound direct investment as well as domestic Chinese companies on outbound investment and doing business abroad, especially in the United States. He has substantial experience in international intellectual property, cross-border M&A and customs. Mr. Hong also manages commercial arbitration and litigation on behalf of Chinese clients.
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Morgan Lewis announced today that Glenn E. Siegel—a lawyer with more than 25 years of experience handling high level bankruptcy matters for a diverse client base-—has joined the firm as a partner in its Business and Finance Practice and co-head of its Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, resident in New York.
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