McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced that Dr. Matthias Kampshoff has joined the Firm as a partner based in its Düsseldorf office. Dr. Kampshoff will provide McDermott’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice with extensive experience in German bankruptcy law, particularly as it relates to insolvent companies, their officers, shareholders, investors as well as bankruptcy administrators and creditors.
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In a major victory for Toyota and the auto industry generally, on January 9, 2013, Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Consumer Protection Defense attorneys successfully defeated a motion for class certification in a multidistrict litigation over customer complaints related to the anti-lock brake (ABS) systems in 2010 Prius and Lexus HS25h vehicles.
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Global law firm Eversheds has advised leading energy company SSE as a shareholder in UK’s Walney offshore wind farm, which has just reached financial close on its £242 million project financing.
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The London office of international legal practice Norton Rose has advised lenders the UK Green Investment Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Siemens Bank on the financing of Dutch pension fund PGGM and Ampere Equity Fund’s interest in Walney offshore wind farms, off the coast of Cumbria.
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Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII), a provider of executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, has announced the acquisition of Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, LLC (Senn Delaney), a company which for 34 years has assisted Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies and other major non-profit organizations, institutions and government entities with shaping their cultures. Steptoe advised Senn Delaney in the transaction, with Greif & Co., a Los Angeles-based middle-market investment bank, acting as exclusive financial advisor to Senn Delaney. The deal closed on December 31, and Senn Delaney will now operate as a subsidiary of Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles from its Huntington Beach, California headquarters.
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A Weil team led by Dallas Public Company Advisory Group (PCAG) partner P.J. Himelfarb and Washington, DC PCAG associate Adé Heyliger advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd. on the US aspects of its C$5.1 billion offer for all outstanding shares of Inmet Mining Corp. (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP acted as lead Canadian counsel on this transaction.) First Quantum is a mining company with a global portfolio of copper and nickel assets in Africa, Australia, South America, and Europe, and Inmet is a global mining company based in Canada. The combined company would have a portfolio of seven producing mines and four development projects in eight countries around the world.
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The Firm represented SBA Communications Corporation (SBA) in connection with its acquisition of 800 freestanding wireless towers from one of the leading broadband wireless carriers in Brazil for approximately R$362.8 million. This was the first acquisition by SBA in Brazil and represented the launching of operations in that country.
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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Michael J. O’Brien has joined the Firm as partner in its New York office. Mr. O’Brien will be a member of the Firm’s M&A and Private Equity group.
Tags: Sidley Austin LLP | New YorkSidley Austin LLP announced today that Joshua B. Rovine, former General Counsel of Advisory Services at The Blackstone Group and Chief Compliance Officer of Blackstone Capital Partners, has rejoined the firm’s Pooled Investment Entities (PIE) Group as a partner in New York. He will also be a member of the firm-wide Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives (IFAD) Practice, concentrating primarily on hedge fund and fund of funds formation (including buy-side representations), as well as investment adviser regulation and compliance. Mr. Rovine was previously a partner at Sidley from 1998 – 2002.
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