Linklaters today announces that leading Islamic Finance lawyer Neil Miller has been appointed as Global Head of Islamic Finance, based in Dubai. Neil joins from KPMG, where he was a partner and Global Head of Islamic Finance.
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Shearman & Sterling advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Banco del Estado de Chile, Korea Finance Corporation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance and Korea Trade Insurance Corporation as lenders or insurers in connection with the $1.05 billion secured financing for the Cochrane power project in Chile being developed by AES Gener and Mitsubishi Corporation.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling is advising TIBCO Software Inc. in its acquisition of Maporama Solutions SAS, a French company engaged in providing geocentric mapping solutions and services.
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Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Mark S. Scott has joined the firm’s Miami office as a partner in its Corporate and International Practice Groups.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Brian Moore has joined the Corporate Department in the Firm’s Minneapolis office as a Partner. Mr. Moore’s practice focuses on middle-market mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters and representation as outside general counsel to venture backed and closely-held corporations, primarily in the life sciences industry. He has been the lead outside lawyer representing leading manufacturers, early-stage companies and emerging venture backed companies on transactions in the life science industry ranging from financing, licensing and commercial transactions to sophisticated mergers, divestitures and structured transactions involving billions of dollars in total potential consideration.
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The Colonial First State managed Direct Property Investment Fund (DPIF) and DEXUS completed the sale of $503.7 million of Sydney based office assets on 28 February 2013, through the sale of direct interests in land and units in land holding trusts. Contracts for the deal were exchanged 21 December 2012.
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In a move that reinforces Nixon Peabody LLP’s health care practice as one of the preeminent practices in New York State, the firm is pleased to announce that veteran health care attorneys Philip Rosenberg and Laurie Cohen have joined the firm’s Albany, NY, office as new partners. Mr. Rosenberg and Ms. Cohen, who left Wilson Elser, an Am Law 100 firm, will be working along with current Nixon Peabody partner Peter Millock, a former general counsel at the New York State Department of Health, and counsel Barbara Asheld, a former house counsel at the Department of Health.
Tags: Nixon Peabody LLP | New YorkContinuing with its plan for strategic growth, Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, the IP super boutique, announced that Bret Bocchieri has joined the firm as a partner on March 26. He will practice out of the firm’s Los Angeles office where he will concentrate on intellectual property litigation, including cyber piracy and trade secret litigation, as well as antitrust and other complex litigation.
Tags: Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP | Los AngelesLawyers from the Kyiv, London and Moscow offices of Chadbourne & Parke have, once again, advised a group of international lenders to Public Joint Stock Company “Kreditprombank” (one of the top 20 largest banks in Ukraine) in connection with their debt and equity interests in Kreditprombank. On 28 February, the lenders sold their 47.783% stake in Kreditprombank to Nikolay Lagun, the majority shareholder of PJSC “Delta Bank”, and their remaining senior and subordinated debt to an affiliate of Delta Bank.
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Valdir C. Barbosa has joined Pedersen & Houpt as a Partner in the Corporate and Business Counseling Practice Group. He focuses his practice on tax matters pertaining to taxable and tax-free acquisitions, divestitures, mergers and reorganizations, public and private financings, private equity transactions, partnerships and debt restructurings.
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