On 18 January 2013, OCI N.V. has launched an exchange offer to acquire all of the outstanding Regulation S Global Depositary Receipts of Orascom Construction Industries, SAE (OCI) in exchange for ordinary shares in OCI N.V. OCI N.V. also intends to launch a mandatory tender offer to acquire all of OCI’s ordinary shares in exchange for OCI N.V. ordinary shares, or a cash alternative.

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NautaDutilh assisted World Fuel Services Corporation in its acquisition of selected assets of Multi Service Corporation for a purchase price of approximately $137 million. Multi Service is a global transaction management company specializing in fleet, government and commercial payment programs (a.o. Multi Service Fuel Card) primarily through closed-loop networks.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Jason Osborn has rejoined the firm in Washington, DC as a partner in the Tax Controversy practice. Previously, he served in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International), most recently as senior technical reviewer in the transfer pricing branch, and before that, as a team leader in the Advance Pricing Agreement Program. Prior to joining the IRS in 2008, Mr. Osborn was an associate at Mayer Brown for five years.

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Vinson & Elkins LLP (V&E) advised the FWU Group in connection with the issuance of US$55 million Islamic notes (Sukuk Al-Ijarah), which will expand the group’s global presence. This is the first ever Sukuk by a German corporate and the first globally to utilize intellectual property rights (in this case a software program) as the underlying asset which makes this transaction ground-breaking in a number of ways. The notes were issued through a Luxembourg SPV incorporated using a Dutch Stichting (foundation) structure – a structure first used in connection with the quasi-sovereign Sukuk issuance by the German state of Saxony-Anhalt in 2005.

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David L. Douglass, Chair of the ABA Health Law Section, has joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade practice group and the firm’s Healthcare practice. Douglass joins Sheppard Mullin from Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Washington, D.C., where he co-chaired the firm’s Government Enforcement & Compliance group.

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Alston & Bird LLP today announced that Kimberly (Kim) Kiefer Peretti, a former director of the cyber forensics services practice of PwC, has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Kim is a nationally recognized expert on data breach investigations, information security, corporate compliance and cyber law. Her addition bolsters Alston & Bird’s ground-breaking Security Incident Management and Response Team, which she will co-chair, and the firm’s Government Investigations team.

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On January 1, 2013, seven attorneys, formerly of Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici (WSGL), a Boston intellectual property law firm, joined Preti Flaherty, a regional New England law firm with offices in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Washington, DC and New Jersey. The seven intellectual property attorneys include:

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