Clayton Utz is very pleased to announce the appointment of Natasha Davidson as a Director in its Corporate practice in Sydney, adding further depth to the firm’s leading Capital Markets and M&A practices.

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A Clayton Utz team has advised ASX-listed Salmat Limited (“Salmat”) on the sale of its Business Process Outsourcing (“BPO”) division to Japan’s FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (“Fujifilm Holdings”) for $375 million

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Herbert Smith has advised long-standing client Cable & Wireless Worldwide (‘CWW’) on its recent takeover by Vodafone, which was implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement. Vodafone paid approximately £1.04 billion to gain control of CWW, in a transaction designed to strengthen Vodafone’s enterprise business and position it well to capitalise in the growing market for unified communications.

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Johnny Chiu has been recruited to the Washington office of Morrison Foerster, according to the firm’s press release.  The intellectual property litigation partner brings significant experience representing Asian clients in U.S. patent matters.  He is fluent in both Mandarin and Taiwanese.

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The Orange County office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), continues its tremendous growth by welcoming a shareholder, former in-house counsel, and an associate to its Southern California ranks

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Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented OrPower 4 Inc., a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of NYSE-listed Ormat Technologies, Inc., in connection with an up to $310 million limited-recourse project financing from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, an agency of the United States Government, for the Olkaria III geothermal power complex located in Naivasha, Kenya. The OPIC financing, which was signed on August 23, 2012, is comprised of two tranches aggregating up to $265 million that will be used to pay costs of the existing 48 MW Plant 1 at the Olkaria III complex, and fund the construction well field drilling for the expansion of the Olkaria III geothermal power complex to up to 84 MW (Plant 2). The OPIC financing also includes up to $45 million of a stand-by tranche in the event that OrPower 4 elects to construct a further additional expansion of up to 16 MW (Plant 3).

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Shearman & Sterling is representing American Sugar Refining, Inc. (American Sugar), which has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in Belize Sugar Industries Limited (BSI).

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Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that intellectual property litigator Johnny Chiu has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner.

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Maddocks continues to boost its talent base with the appointment of Lucille Scomazzon, Partner and Angela Wood, Senior Associate to the commercial practice in Sydney. Lucille and Angela have joined the firm from Ashurst.

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