Dechert LLP announced today that Lewis Ho has joined the firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in the Corporate and Securities practice. Ho was most recently a resident partner in the Beijing office at Simmons & Simmons LLP.
Tags: Dechert LLP | Hong KongOn October 1, 2012, Gazprom announced that the Russian energy company had signed a landmark deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to GAIL (India) Limited. This marks the first long-term sale of LNG by Gazprom — through its subsidiary Gazprom Marketing and Trading Singapore (GMTS) — into the Indian market.
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King & Wood Mallesons has acted for a syndicate of 38 banks on Origin Energy’s landmark $2.4 billion debt raising, which signed on 4 October 2012. The mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners were ANZ, CBA and NAB.
Tags: King & Wood MallesonsKing & Wood Mallesons has acted for QR National Limited on its proposed Selective Share Buy-back.
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International law firm Stephenson Harwood has appointed Saugata Mukherjee as a partner in its aviation and structured finance practice in Singapore. Saugata’s previous experience includes working in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s London office as a senior associate in the structured and asset finance group and also as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London.
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King & Spalding represented Samba Financial Group as the lead arranger on a SAR517 million (USD137.9 million) Shari’ah-compliant acquisition financing, with the facility increased by a further SAR200 million (USD53.3 million) on September 30, 2012.
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Morgan Lewis today announced that Nick Thomas—an employment lawyer with skills in contentious and transactional matters—has joined the firm as a partner in its Labour and Employment practice. Nick was most recently a partner at Pinsent Masons.
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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Securities partner Arnold Peinado and Transportation and Space partner Elihu Robertson, acted as US counsel to the underwriters in a $844 million public offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (“EETCs”) by Continental Airlines, Inc.
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