International law firm Taylor Wessing (Middle East) LLP today announced the appointment of Tahir Ahmed as a new partner in its Corporate Finance group. Tahir’s appointment brings the total number of partners in the Dubai office to six and follows the recent appointment in June 2012 of Neale Downes as a partner to lead the finance team.
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To bolster the firm’s presence in the Midwest, national law firm Wilson Elser has joined forces with Milwaukee firm Leib & Katt, LLC to open the firm’s first office in Wisconsin. Opening its doors on January 1, 2013, the office will be the AmLaw 100 firm’s 24th U.S. office and the third opened in the past two years.
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King & Spalding advised Sprint Nextel in its definitive agreement with Clearwire Corporation in which Sprint will acquire the approximately 50 percent stake in Clearwire it does not currently own for $2.97 per share, equating to a total cash payment to Clearwire shareholders, other than Sprint, of $2.2 billion and an enterprise value for Clearwire of $10 billion. King & Spalding also advised Sprint in connection with voting and support agreements for the transaction that were obtained from Clearwire shareholders Comcast, Intel Capital and Bright House Networks.
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International law firm Stephenson Harwood opens its Dubai office today.
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The Warsaw office of Greenberg Traurig LLP represented Barclays Capital, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Ipopema S.A in the US$640 million initial public offering of Alior Bank S.A., which began trading today on the Warsaw Stock Exchange . It closed on Dec. 12, 2012.
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Simpson Thacher recently represented Equatorial Energia S.A. in connection with its R$1.3 billion (US$622 million) follow-on equity offering. The offering was registered in Brazil, with international placement efforts to qualified institutional buyers and other non-U.S. persons in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act. A substantial portion of the net proceeds from the offering will be used for the financial restructuring of Equatorial’s recently acquired subsidiary, Centrais Elétricas do Pará – CELPA.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the A$4.8 billion Goodman Australia Industrial Fund (Australia’s largest wholesale industrial vehicle) on a new equity raising of $624 million and various enhancements to its fund structure. The proposal was approved this week by a significant majority of GAIF unitholders.
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Amar Thakur has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Thakur, who has an Electrical Engineering degree, specializes in intellectual property litigation and intellectual property licensing matters.
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Shearman & Sterling advised Minera Frisco, S.A.B. de C.V. (“Minera Frisco”) in connection with a $1.1 billion financing related to its acquisition of AuRicoGold de México, S.A. de C.V. Minera Frisco is majority owned by Carlos Slim, the world’s richest person according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Minera Frisco, which was spun off from Slim’s holding company Grupo Carso S.A.B. at the beginning of 2011, is his biggest holding behind wireless carrier America Movil S.A.B. and financial-services company Grupo Financiero Inbursa S.A.B.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling advised The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., New York Branch (BTMU) in connection with the financing of InterGen’s 205 MW natural gas-fired San Luis de la Paz project in Guanajuato, Mexico. Concurrently, the firm also advised BTMU in connection with the financing of the InterGen’s Altamira Compression Station in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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