Today Bird & Bird in The Hague welcomes partner Brian Mulier who is rejoining the International Tax and International Trade & Customs Practice Groups. He also brings with him customs and trade associate Goran Danilović.
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WFW Asia Practice Acts for DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd and Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on a 16-ship Facility to Epic Pantheon International
Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that it acted as legal advisor to DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd and Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on a loan facility led by DVB’s chemical, LPG and product tanker group to refinance 16 LPG carriers. The financing was implemented following a merger by Epic Shipping and Pantheon Inc for which DVB Corporate Finance separately served as exclusive financial advisor. Both the merger transaction and associated financing involved multiple jurisdictions including Panama, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Singapore, the British Virgin Islands and England and Wales.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Advises Strides Arcolab Limited on a US$1.6 Billion Disposal of Its Generic Speciality Injectible Business to Mylan Inc.
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Strides Arcolab Limited (SAL), an Indian pharmaceutical company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India on the US$1.6 billion (cash) disposal, by way of auction, of Agila Specialities its generic specialty injectable business to Mylan Inc., a US generic pharmaceutical company listed on NASDAQ.
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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 Expands Corporate Finance and FERC Practice
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 Represents Evercore Partners in Regency Energy Partners LP’s Acquisition of Southern Union Gathering Company, LLC for $1.5 Billion
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 Advises Government of Puerto Rico on First-of-its-Kind Airport Privatization
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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Motor Fraud Specialist Joins BLM
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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White & Case Advises SAAOne on €1 Billion PPP Project
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.
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Global 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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