Shearman & Sterling advised Japanese company Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. on its increased shareholding in German machine tool manufacturer Gildemeister Aktiengesellschaft (“Gildemeister”) and the participation in a subsequent capital increase with subscription rights.
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Schiff Hardin welcomes Paula Leibovitz Goodwin as a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Goodwin has more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and decedent estate administration, with an emphasis on tax planning for both large and small estates.
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King & Spalding announced today that a five-lawyer team of energy lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) joined King & Spalding’s Paris office, led by partner Mehdi Haroun, former head of the North Africa practice at HSF. The team includes Philippe Trosset and Ruxandra Lazar, both counsels, and associates Nora Djeraba and Marion Morvan, recently joined by Raphaële Bouniol, an associate from French law firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier. Their presence establishes a King & Spalding energy team on the ground in France with strong corporate and public law expertise, and significantly expands the energy practice’s capabilities across Europe and North Africa.
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Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as the underwriter in connection with an SEC-registered block trade of 16,000,000 ordinary shares of LyondellBasell Industries N.V. by funds affiliated with Apollo Management Holdings, L.P. The net proceeds of the offering to Apollo were approximately $1.1 billion. The ordinary shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LYB.”
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Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. is pleased to announce that Eric Magnuson has joined the firm’s Minneapolis office as a partner, focusing his practice on business litigation and appellate law.
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Fasken Martineau, a leading international business law and litigation firm, provided on-going post-completion support to Gate terminal which built the first LNG import terminal in the Netherlands with access to northwest Europe.
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Lawyer M.J. Pritchett has taken a new job with Arent Fox in San Francisco. The partner, who joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, focuses his legal practice on Real Estate matters. Pritchett has extensive experience in acquisition, disposition, secured lending, public finance, leasing, and more.
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Michael Saslaw, one of the leading corporate lawyers in Dallas, has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it is advised the underwriters on LinkedIn Corp.’s follow-on offering of 5.55 million shares of Class A common stock worth approximately $1.25 billion.
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Maria Luisa Canovas has joined the New York Officeof global law firm Jones Day as a partner in the M&A Practice. She was formerly a partner in the New York office of Hogan Lovells.
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