King & Spalding advised Sadara Chemical Company during the tendering and bid evaluation for an operations and maintenance agreement for packaging and shipping with Al Majdouie De Rijke Limited Company.
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Day Pitney Real Estate Department Adds Partner Jeffrey Held
Day Pitney is pleased to announce that Jeffrey S. Held has joined the firm as partner in the Real Estate, Environmental and Land Use department. A real estate transactions veteran, Mr. Held has been involved in numerous stand-alone real estate transactions and provided real estate guidance in significant corporate and financing transactions. He will be based in Day Pitney’s New York office.
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Hogan Lovells Advises Arris on US$2 Billion Purchase of Google’s Motorola Home Unit
Hogan Lovells is proud to announce that it secured antitrust clearance from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for client Arris’ proposed US$2.35 billion purchase of Google Inc.’s Motorola Home unit. With this final approval, the communications technology company has received all of the necessary regulatory authorizations surrounding the purchase. The acquisition is expected to close later this week.
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Clifford Chance Advises MGPA on Purchase of Two Office Buildings in Tokyo
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised MGPA on behalf of MGPA Asien Spezialfonds, which targets German-speaking institutional investors on two property investments in Japan. The investments comprise the acquisition of two Tokyo office buildings, South Shin Otsuka building in Otsuka and Shinjuku TX building in Shinjuku. These transactions are MGPA Asien Spezialfonds first investments in Japan with both transactions closing in March. The fund is launched on the administration platform of the German investment company Universal-Investment.
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Hunton & Williams Continues Growth of Global Litigation Practice, Nash Long Rejoins as Partner in Charlotte Office
Hunton & Williams LLP announces the further growth of its global litigation practice with the return of Nash E. Long III as partner in Charlotte. Long, who joins from Winston & Strawn, focuses his practice on complex litigation, including arbitrations, jury trials, bench trials, and class actions related to environmental, business torts, commercial contract, intellectual property, construction, consumer law and product liability disputes.
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Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in IPO of Neuberger Berman MLP Income Fund Inc.
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC and Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. in connection with the initial public offering of Neuberger Berman MLP Income Fund Inc. (the “Fund”). The offering raised approximately $1.1 billion, assuming full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.
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Matheson Advises Royalty Pharma on $7.3 Billion Bid for Elan
Matheson is advising Royalty Pharma on its $7.3 billion cash offer for Elan Corporation plc, the Irish biotechnology company. The Matheson team is led by Tim Scanlon, George Brady and Fergus Bolster.
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Harbottle & Lewis is delighted to announce that Dalton Odendaal has re-joined the firm as a Partner. For the last six years Dalton has been working on the Olympic Games with LOCOG and the BOA.
KhattarWong Names Leading Criminal Lawyer Shashi Nathan As Partner in Criminal Litigation
KhattarWong LLP announces the appointment of Mr Shashi Nathan, one of Singapore’s leading criminal defence lawyers, as Partner of Criminal Litigation Department.
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Herbert Smith Freehills opens in Seoul
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP announced today the official opening of its Seoul office. The office opens for business today, 15 April 2013.
The world’s 12th largest economy and the 4th largest economy in Asia, South Korea is an investment market with significant potential globally. Free trade agreements with two of its main trading partners—the US and the EU—recently came into force. These provide for broad and deep liberalisation of trade in goods and services, including legal services, and permit US and EU law firms to open offices in South Korea for the first time.
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