Roetzel is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Orlando office with the addition of Jason S. Miller as a partner in the Intellectual Property group. Previously, he was of counsel with Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A., and co-chair of that firm’s Intellectual Property Group.
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Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that lobbyist and attorney Doug Heron has re-joined the firm as a Partner in the State Government Relations practice. Mr. Heron has almost 15 years of combined experience in North Carolina and in Washington, D.C.
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Herbert Smith Freehills confirmed today that it has recruited to its partnership Rod Fletcher, one of the UK’s leading business crime and investigations specialists.
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HWL Ebsworth has announced that Matthew Rowe has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial practice group at the Norwest office.
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The International law firm Clifford Chance advised the mandated lead arrangers and the lenders on all the aspects of Nareva Holding and International Power-GDF Suez’ project to build the Tarfaya wind farm (in the South of Morocco) with a capacity of 300 MW, from the bid phase in 2009 until the financial close in December 2012. The Clifford Chance team was composed of Mustapha Mourahib, Partner, Benjamin de Blegiers, Counsel, and Ouns Lemseffer, Associate. The project called upon a bank financing up to MAD 4 billion, provided by a lenders consortium composed of Attijariwafa Bank, Banque Centrale Populaire and Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur.
Tags: Clifford Chance LLPNational law firm Shoosmiths has appointed partner Tracey Hemingway to its pensions team, together with documentation specialist Steve Phillips.They join hot on the heels of partner Paul Carney.
The Firm recently represented Organización Cultiba, S.A.B. de C.V., in connection with its inaugural global offering of 98,004,889 common shares. The shares were offered to the public in Mexico, to qualified institutional buyers in the United States in reliance on Rule 144A and to non-U.S. persons elsewhere in reliance on Regulation S. The global offering, which included a secondary offering by certain of Cultiba’s shareholders, raised approximately US$270 million in gross proceeds. Cultiba’s common shares are listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkThe Firm recently represented Banco BTG Pactual S.A. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as initial purchasers, in connection with a US$300 million international offering of 7.750% Senior Notes due 2020 by SMU S.A. The offering was made to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkThe Firm recently represented the initial purchasers, led by Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, in an offering of €250 million of 7.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 by ENCE Energía y Celulosa, S.A. (“ENCE”), guaranteed by certain of its subsidiaries.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPSimpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan, in connection with the offering by Air Lease Corporation of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.750% Senior Notes due 2020. The Notes are being offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that the Company previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to fund the acquisition of commercial aircraft and for other general corporate purposes.
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