A team of Goodwin attorneys helped client Brookfield Asset Management form its Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners fund, one of the world’s largest private real estate funds with approximately $4.4 billion in capital commitments.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that class action and products liability trial attorney Lisa Gilford has joined the firm’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group in Los Angeles. Ms. Gilford most recently served as co-chair of the products liability group in the Los Angeles office of another highly regarded law firm, where she represented companies in the automotive, telecommunications, life science, chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries on every level of significant mass tort litigation in federal and state courts across the nation.
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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, on the sale of its group term life and employee benefits business in Singapore to AXA Life Insurance Singapore Private Limited and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), another wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, on the related distribution agreement.
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Bruce McNamara has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley as a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group.
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Baker Botts today announced the opening of its office in Rio de Janeiro, the firm’s first office in Latin America in almost 50 years, to work “shoulder to shoulder” with clients in Brazil and throughout Latin America. This is the firm’s ninth international office and 15th worldwide.
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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised on South African power utility Eskom’s $1bn bond, issued under Eskom’s newly established $4bn global medium term programme. Eskom generates, transmits and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural and residential customers and redistributors across southern Africa.
Tags: Freshfields LLPBingham McCutchen LLP expanded the capabilities of its top-ranked tax planning group with the addition of highly regarded corporate tax lawyer Joshua T. Brady as a partner in the Washington office.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented Irving Oil, a privately owned regional energy and marketing company that owns and operates Canada’s largest refinery, in forming a joint venture with TransCanada to develop and construct the proposed $300 million Canaport Energy East Marine Terminal at Irving Canaport in Saint John, New Brunswick. Irving Oil will operate the Canaport Energy East Marine Terminal, which will connect the proposed $12 billion Energy East Pipeline project recently announced by TransCanada to an ice-free, deep water port.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce the addition of four new attorneys to its Atlanta office. Matt Block has joined the firm’s Corporate Group as a partner and Jason S. McCarter has joined the firm’s Litigation Group also as a partner, while John D. (J.D.) Shipman joins as an associate and Stephanie H. Philips joins as litigation attorney. All were previously with Dow Lohnes.
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A Weil team led by Corporate partners Philip Rosen and Shayla Harlev is acting as counsel to Verde Realty Operating Partnership, L.P., a majority-owned subsidiary of funds managed by Brookfield Property Partners LP, in connection with the $1.1 billion acquisition of Industrial Developments International Inc. (IDI) from a subsidiary of Japan’s Kajima Corp. Based in Hamilton, Bermuda, Brookfield is an owner, operator, and investor in commercial properties. Through Verde’s purchase of IDI, which is based in Atlanta, Brookfield and its institutional partners will gain a network of 75 distribution facilities operating in 12 US states for a total of 27 million square feet of industrial distribution space. They will also add IDI’s 49 million square feet of future development projects and third-party property management business. Brookfield is purchasing about 25 percent of IDI; its partners will acquire the balance of the company.
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