Duane Morris & Selvam Toasts Client Heineken’s $4.6 Billion Takeover Bid for Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd.

Monday, December 3, 2012

On November 15, 2012, Heineken N.V. closed its S$5.6 billion ($4.6 billion) takeover bid for Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd. (APBL), acquiring an additional 40-percent stake in the joint venture from its partner Fraser & Neave Ltd, a Singapore-based conglomerate. Duane Morris & Selvam, a joint law venture with U.S.-based international law firm Duane Morris LLP, acted for Heineken in the complex and widely followed transaction, which consolidates a controlling interest in APBL for the Amsterdam-based brewer of approximately 95 percent. The transaction marks one of the largest of its kind in Singapore this year.

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Choate Adds 14-Person Private Client Practice to its Wealth Management Group

Monday, December 3, 2012

Choate today announced that the Private Client Practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP has joined Choate’s industry-leading Wealth Management Group. On November 13, Choate announced that the four partners from WilmerHale’s Private Client Practice – Jennifer C. Snyder, Nan Giner, Michael L. Fay and Brian W. Monnich – would join the firm. Effective today, those four partners, plus three associates from WilmerHale’s Private Client Practice – Jessica L. Lambert, Brooke L. Manfredi and Courtney Carr – and seven related professional staff have joined Choate’s Wealth Management Group.

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Freshfields Advises the Underwriting Syndicate on MegaFon’s $1.7 Billion Listing on the London Stock Exchange

Monday, December 3, 2012

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the underwriters in relation to leading Russian mobile phone operator MegaFon’s $1.7 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). MegaFon’s initial public offering is the largest listing in London in three years and the biggest Russian London listing since 2007.

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Mayer Brown Announces Capital Markets Partner Hire in London

Monday, December 3, 2012

Leading global law firm Mayer Brown announces the hire of James Taylor as a Capital Markets partner in London. James joins from Allen & Overy LLP where he was a Senior Associate in the International Capital Markets group. The hire is part of an ongoing, global initiative to further strengthen Mayer Brown’s capital markets offering in key financial centres in Europe and across the globe.

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