Mayer Brown advised longtime client and private equity firm The Jordan Company on the acquisition by its affiliate, The Resolute Fund II SIE, L.P., of Sequa Automotive Group from Sequa’s parent company, Sequa Corporation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Travers Smith partners Aaron Stocks, Paul Lyons and Anthony Judge have advised Metric Property Investments plc on its £811m recommended all-share merger with London & Stamford Property Plc by way of a scheme of arrangement to form London Metric Property Plc.
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The Korean Ministry of Justice this week granted final approval of the application of global law firm K&L Gates LLPfor a foreign legal service office in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Pending registration with the Korean Bar Association in the coming weeks, K&L Gates’ Seoul office — the firm’s 42nd office worldwide and seventh in Asia — will be formally launched in January 2013. K&L Gates is one of the first U.S.-based law firms to avail themselves of the benefits of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, which, upon becoming effective in March 2012, opened the Korean legal market to U.S. law firms for the first time.
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Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Gregory D. Chafee has joined the firm as a corporate and energy partner in the Atlanta office. Chafee serves as vice chair of the American Bar Association Energy and Environmental Markets and Finance Committee and was the chair of his prior firm’s Sustainability practice.
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International law firm Clifford Chance, in conjunction with Al Jadaan & Partners Law Firm, has advised The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) in relation to the proposed US$1.3 billion merger of the fleets and operations of Bahri and Vela International Marine Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. The definitive transaction documents were signed in Riyadh on 4 November 2012.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. and affiliates (KKR) and Allegro Funds on their joint acquisition of a portfolio of commercial loans from BOS International, a subsidiary of Lloyds International Pty Limited.
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Jenner & Block recently represented General Dynamics in a public offering of an aggregate of $2.4 billion of notes, guaranteed by certain of GD’s key operating subsidiaries, consisting of $900 million of 1.000% Notes due 2017, $1 billion of 2.250% Notes due 2022 and $500 million of 3.600% Notes due 2042. The transaction was launched on Thursday, November 1, 2012, and was priced later that day after a brief period of marketing by GD’s underwriters J.P. Morgan Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, RBS Securities and Wells Fargo Securities. The offering was completed on November 6, 2012.
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The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC is pleased to announce that Kevin P. Allen has joined the litigation practice as a Member (partner) in the firm’s Pittsburgh office.
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Davis Polk advised Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc and J.P. Morgan Securities plc in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.5% notes due 2022 by Sasol Financing International Plc, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Sasol Limited (Sasol).
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