Swedish-based industrial group Atlas Copco AB agreed to acquire Edwards Group Limited, a U.K-based global supplier of vacuum and abatement solutions for the chemical and semiconductor industries, in a $1.6 billion deal. The purchase will be Atlas Copco’s biggest in 14 years.
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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Ken Boehner has joined the Firm’s Atlanta Office as a partner in the M&A Practice.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the parent company of publically-listed PetroChina, on its acquisition of a 28.57% stake in Eni East Africa SpA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eni SpA, for US$4.2 billion.
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Adding an experienced corporate and securities lawyer to its New York office, Venable LLP announced that Michael R. Manley, a veteran general counsel serving investment management firms and operating companies, had joined the firm as a partner.
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Kutak Rock LLP, a national law firm with a large office in Denver, recently added nine lateral attorneys to the corporate group. Six of those attorneys joined from the boutique transactional law firm, Krendl, Krendl, Sachnoff & Way, P.C. and bring the total number of attorneys in the Denver office to 82.
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Vinson & Elkins advised China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec Corp.) in its joint venture with SIBUR, a leading Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company, in the development of the Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubber Plant (KZSK). Sinopec purchased 25 percent + 1 share of KZSK.
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David W. Gee, a lawyer with over two decades of experience advising clinical and molecular diagnostic laboratories across the nation, has joined the health care practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the Seattle office.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing online payments services firm Skrill Group in the U.S. regulatory aspects of its acquisition by private equity group CVC Capital Partners for € 600 million (approximately $800 million).
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Allen R. Wolff has joined Anderson Kill P.C. as a shareholder in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Wolff’s practice concentrates in construction litigation, insurance recovery and the nexus between the two, as well as complex commercial litigation.
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David A. Suess, who has more than 14 years of experience in tax law, has joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner in the tax advocacy group. He will practice from the law firm’s downtown Indianapolis office.
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