Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has bolstered its corporate practice further in Asia with the addition of Li Chen as a partner in the firm’s Beijing office. She joins the firm from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | BeijingAkin Gump has advised CITIC PE, a private equity fund associated with a unit of China’s CITIC Private Equity Funds Management Co., Ltd., in its successful buyout of Chinese biotech firm 3SBio Inc. CITIC PE formed a consortium with the management team of 3SBio Inc. in connection with the transaction.
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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Partners Michael A. Stafford andKatharine D. (Kate) David to the Firm’s Houston office. The duo joins Gardere’s Trial Practice Group, adding depth to the Firm’s Government Affairs and Condemnation/Eminent Domain practices.
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Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP are pleased to announce their completed combination – effective today, Monday June 3 – creating a new, global legal practice, Norton Rose Fulbright. This transatlantic combination is one of the largest in the history of the legal profession.
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Baker & McKenzie has advised Regal Real Estate Investment Trust (“Regal REIT”) on its issuance of US$150 million 4.10% guaranteed notes due 2018 (“Notes”) pursuant to the establishment of its US$1 billion medium term note programme (“MTN Programme”) in January 2013.
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Cooley LLP announced today that its antitrust team successfully persuaded the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California Attorney General to close their nine month investigation of Tesoro Corporation’s proposed $1.175 billion acquisition of British Petroleum’s Southern California Refining and Marketing business. Cooley represented Tesoro on the antitrust aspects of the acquisition.
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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Steve Plinio has joined its Los Angeles office as a shareholder in the Entertainment & Media Practice.
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The Firm is representing Vingroup Joint Stock Company, Vietnam’s largest private-sector real estate operator, in connection with definitive agreements by a consortium led by an affiliate of Warburg Pincus to make a $200 million investment in Vincom Retail. The definitive agreements also include a commitment from Warburg Pincus to participate in future capital raising by Vingroup in an amount of up to US$25 million, and an opportunity for the consortium to invest an additional US$100 million in Vincom Retail to expand the platform and explore future retail property-related opportunities.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Hong KongSimpson Thacher represented Oaktree Capital Group, LLC in the registered follow-on offering of 8.05 million Class A units representing limited liability company interests. Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse were the joint global coordinators for the approximately $431 million offering. Oaktree intends to use all of the net proceeds from the offering to acquire interests in its business from certain of its directors, employees and other investors.
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Arent Fox is proud to announce the opening of its new San Francisco office in the KPMG Building at 55 Second Street in the city’s Financial District. As a result of client demand, the firm will expand into Northern California with its nationally recognized Automotive, Communications, Mobile & Technology, Complex Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, and Sports practices.
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