Simpson Thacher Represents Global Tower in its $3.3 Billion Sale to American Tower

Monday, September 9, 2013

The Firm is representing MIP Tower Holdings LLC (“MIP”), the parent company of Global Tower Partners (“GTP”) and related companies, in the $3.3 billion announced sale to American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT).  The purchase price will also include the assumption of $1.5 billion in existing debt, for a total purchase price of $4.8 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013.

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Former Health Care Fraud Chief Starts Lowenstein Sandler’s Health Care Litigation, Investigations & Compliance Practice

Monday, September 9, 2013

Lowenstein Sandler announced that Maureen A. Ruane has rejoined the firm to lead its new Health Care Litigation, Investigations & Compliance Practice. The practice will help the firm’s health care and life science clients strengthen their regulatory and compliance programs, as well as defend corporate and individual clients who become the subjects or targets of government investigations or enforcement actions. Ms. Ruane most recently served for more than three years as the Chief of the Health Care & Government Fraud Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. She was previously with Lowenstein Sandler as Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s appellate litigation practice from 2006 to 2010.

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Norton Rose Fulbright Advises Sumitomo Electric on Multinational Joint Venture for the Supply of Volkswagen Russland

Monday, September 9, 2013

An international team of global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze GmbH, a group company of Sumitomo Electric Industries, on a contractual joint venture with a Belarusian supply business. The joint venture was implemented for purposes of supplying Volkswagen Group Russia with wire harnesses. The project is a major step on enlarging the activities of Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze GmbH on international growth markets.

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Edwards Wildman Launches New Office in Istanbul, Turkey

Monday, September 9, 2013

The international law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that on August 22, 2013, the Istanbul Bar Association approved the firm’s application to operate as a foreign law firm in Istanbul, Turkey, under the name of Edwards Wildman Danişmanlik Hizmetleri Avukatlik Ortakliği. The new office will serve as the base from which the firm will advise a broad range of clients on cross-border private equity and corporate-backed M&A transactions throughout the Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa (CEEMENA) region and other neighboring markets.

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King & Spalding Advises Freeport LNG in Agreements with Toshiba and SK

Monday, September 9, 2013

King & Spalding advised  Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., in the company’s agreements to enter into binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreements (LTAs) with SK E&S LNG, LLC and Toshiba Corporation, each for a base quantity of 2.2 million tons per annum (mtpa), commencing upon completion of construction of the third train of Freeport LNG’s proposed natural gas liquefaction and LNG loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.

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Davis Polk Welcomes Return of DOJ Official Avi Gesser to White Collar Criminal Defense Group

Monday, September 9, 2013

Davis Polk is pleased to announce that Avi Gesser, an official with the U.S. Department of Justice, has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in New York. Mr. Gesser will work in our White Collar Criminal Defense Group representing clients in a wide range of white collar criminal defense matters and investigations as well as complex commercial litigation.

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One of the Country’s Leading Patent Attorneys—S. Craig Hemenway—Joins Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Friday, September 6, 2013

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck continues to expand its intellectual property team with the addition of S. Craig Hemenway as a shareholder plus 12 members of his team. With a deep background in both patent law and engineering, Hemenway and his team will counsel clients on many aspects of intellectual property from identification, protection and management of intellectual property assets to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, enforcing intellectual property rights through litigation and providing infringement and patentability opinions. Hemenway was previously a partner at Dorsey & Whitney where he led the Denver patent group.

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