Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that it has been granted a license to practice local law in Singapore under Singapore’s Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) program. Sidley is one of only four firms to have been granted this license on February 19, 2013 by Singapore’s Ministry of Law, bringing the total number of QFLP firms to ten.
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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised B. Grimm BIP Power Limited and Bangkadi Clean Energy Limited on a total financing of THB9.75 billion (approximately US$ 325 million) for two gas-fired power projects located in Bangkadi Industrial Park, Pathumthani Province in Thailand.
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Allen & Overy has advised the joint lead managers (Goldman Sachs and Barclays) on Tesco Plc’s sixth credit tenant linked (CTL) CMBS financing, launched by Tesco Property Finance 6 Plc. The financing raised debt in excess of GBP490 million.
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Stewarts Law, the leading specialist litigation law firm, announces today the opening of a new International Arbitration department following the appointment of Philippa Charles who joins the firm to head up the new department.
Linklaters announces that Professor Dr Wilhelm Haarmann has been elected a partner in Germany. He is a founding partner of the law firm Haarmann.
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Balch & Bingham LLP today announced that two partners and an associate have joined the firm and will be located in its Atlanta, Ga. office, enhancing the firm’s knowledge and bench strength in business litigation, creditors rights and bankruptcy and healthcare.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has expanded its Boston office with the recent additions of two new partners, Mark L. Johnson and Paulo J. Marnoto, and eight new associates. Johnson joins the firm’s corporate securities and finance practice from Cooley LLP, while Marnoto joins the firm’s private equity and fund formation practice from Ropes & Gray LLP.
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Polsinelli Shughart expands its business tax planning services with the addition of Wade S. Leathers as a shareholder in the Chicago office. Leathers brings his broad base of experience advising corporate clients on the tax issues associated with the structuring of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and many types of corporate reorganizations.
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Porter Hedges represented a Special Committee of the Gulfport Energy Corporation (“Gulfport”) Board of Directors in the $220 million acquisition of Utica Shale acreage from Windsor Ohio, LLC (“Windsor Ohio”). The purchase includes approximately 22,000 net acres in the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio and increases Gulfport’s leasehold interests in the Utica Shale to approximately 137,000 gross (128,000 net) acres and increases its working interest in the acreage to 93.8%.
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