The Firm represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, the lead dealer managers, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, the co-dealer manager, for the modified “Dutch” auction tender offer by Halliburton Company for $3.3 billion of its common stock.  The tender offer expired on August 22, 2013 and settlement for the tender offer occurred on August 29, 2013.  The shares acquired represented approximately 7.4% of the total number of shares of Halliburton common stock issued and outstanding as of August 20, 2013.

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Ungaretti & Harris LLP today announced that prominent gaming attorney Donna B. More and former Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) legal counsel William Bogot have joined the firm as partners in its Gaming and Government Affairs Practice. The move adds depth to the firm’s established gaming, legislative affairs, regulatory, litigation, corporate and compliance services.

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Mayer Brown, a global leading law firm, today announced The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (“Vinashin”), a Vietnamese government-owned company registered in Vietnam, yesterday successfully applied to the High Court for sanction of a scheme of arrangement with certain of its creditors pursuant to a US$600 million facility.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, in its role as Sole Coordinator and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Commerzbank AG, UniCredit Bank AG and HSBC Bank plc as Arrangers on the refinancing of Minimax, a Germany-based fire safety company.

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Miller Canfield, an international law firm headquartered in the U.S., announced today that it has opened a new office on the 11th floor of the Bay Adelaide Centre in downtown Toronto.  The office will focus on advising Toronto lawyers and their clients on legal issues outside of Canada, specifically relating to business in the U.S., China, Mexico and Poland, where the firm has offices.

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Clifford Chance advised Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft in connection with the placement of two issues of undated subordinated notes subject to interest rate reset, consisting of EUR 1.25 billion of notes with a first call date in 2018 (NC5 Notes) and EUR 750 million of notes with a first call date in 2023 (NC10 Notes).

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