Herbert Smith has advised long-standing client BSkyB plc on its recent acquisition of Telefónica UK’s entire Broadband and Fixed-Line Telephony Business. This transaction will make BSkyB the second-largest provider in the UK broadband market, building on its existing position as the UK’s fastest-growing broadband and telephony business.
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Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) is pleased to announce that Michael J. Tarutis has joined the firm’s Pittsburgh office. He is a member of the firm’s corporate finance practice group, wherein he focuses on start-up and early-stage firms.
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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Evercore Partners, advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of the general partner of Regency Energy Partners LP, regarding Regency Energy Partners LP’s acquisition of Southern Union Gathering Company, LLC from Southern Union Company, a jointly owned affiliate of Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., for $1.5 billion.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, represented the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority, a public corporation of the government of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico Ports Authority on an approximately $2.6 billion, 40-year lease agreement with Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC to privatize Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan.
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Leading insurance and dispute resolution law firm, Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP (BLM) has appointed new partner Daniel Thomas to the national fraud team. He joins the firm’s Birmingham office on 4 March 2013 from Browne Jacobson.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised SAAOne – a consortium comprising Hochtief PPP Solutions GmbH, VolkerInfra PPP B.V., Boskalis B.V. and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF Infra 3 Finance B.V.) – on the financing of the €1 billion A1/A6 Diemen-Muiderberg-Almere Havendreef motorway PPP project in the Netherlands.
Tags: White & Case LLPGlobal law firm White & Case LLP has advised Banco Itaú BBA International, S.A. (“Itaú Portugal”), a Portuguese credit institution, on the successful transfer of its European wholesale banking operations from Lisbon to London through a “merger by absorption” under The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2007 (the “Regulations”).
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A Corporate team from international legal practice Norton Rose has advised European private equity firm HgCapital on the sale of its UK onshore wind portfolio.
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Davis Polk, together with Linklaters, represented the joint administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (“LBIE”) in connection with the litigation and settlement of $38 billion in claims between LBIE and Lehman Brothers Inc (“LBI”). The Lehman Brothers SIPA case is by far the largest SIPA proceeding on record involving an insolvent broker-dealer. The execution last week by LBIE and LBI of the definitive documentation of the settlement and the filing in the bankruptcy court today of the motion seeking approval of the settlement agreement represents a critical milestone in the Lehman Brothers administration and, subject to court approval, will unlock substantial distributions for creditors who hold tens of billions of dollars in claims.
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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced that Susan Alker has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the corporate practice. Ms. Alker practiced for 10 years at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles and after that at Reed Smith. Her practice focuses on representing major banks, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds in corporate transactions. The move reunites her with several former O’Melveny & Myers attorneys who have joined Winston & Strawn to form a corporate practice in Los Angeles.
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