Baker & McKenzie has acted for NSW Government on the next round of its power sales program – the $160m sale of Delta Electricity’s Mt Piper and Wallerawang power stations to EnergyAustralia. The deal follows the Government’s sale of the Eraring Power Station to Origin Energy earlier this month on which Baker & McKenzie also advised.
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Waller, a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Austin, today announced that healthcare attorney Amanda K. Jester has joined its Austin office as partner. Formerly a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, in Miami, Fla., Jester focuses her practice on advising and representing a vast range of healthcare clients including private equity funds, physician practices, hospital and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers and pain management clinics.
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Dechert LLP announced today that it advised Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. in an initial public offering of 5,166,667 shares of its common stock. The offering was announced today at $15.00 per share, before underwriting discounts. All of the shares of common stock are being offered by Onconova. In addition, Onconova has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 775,000 shares of common stock at the same price to cover over-allotments, if any. The shares are now trading on The NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol “ONTX.” The offering is expected to close on July 30, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions.
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Squire Sanders acted as lead legal advisers on the acquisition by a UK/China consortium of the entire issued share capital of Covpress International Holdings. The deal was lead out of the firm’s Birmingham office and involved a team of over 20 Squire Sanders lawyers based across its Birmingham and Shanghai offices.
Tags: Squire Patton Boggs | ShanghaiNationally recognized commercial litigator Richik Sarkar has joined McDonald Hopkins LLC as a member in the firm’s Litigation Department. He will be based in the firm’s Cleveland office.
An M&A team from Patton Boggs LLP headed by Geoff Davis, a partner in the firm’s Washington DC office and Mark Goldschmidt, a partner in the firm’s Denver office recently represented Intezyne Technologies, a leader in the use of nanotechnology in the development of cancer treatment, in its strategic acquisition of target Niiki Pharma, significantly expanding Intezyne’s portfolio of cancer drugs and market valuation.
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Skadden represented Realogy Holdings Corp. in its $1.2 billion secondary offering of the remaining 25 million shares of its common stock owned by certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management LLC, which closed on July 22.
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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Victor C. Johnson to its Intellectual Property Group as a member in the firm’s Dallas Office. Prior to joining Dykema, Johnson was a Principal at the Yarbrough Law Group (YLG), where he was head of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Brand Protection Group.
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McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Franklin D. Kang has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation group as a partner in Los Angeles.
Tags: McGuireWoods LLP | Los AngelesBaker & McKenzie has advised New Zealand’s Z Energy Limited on non-New Zealand aspects of its proposed NZ$900 million initial public offering, including its proposed international offerings.
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