International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Transportation Finance partner Drew S. Fine and Global Securities partner Arnold Peinado, recently represented the initial purchasers in three separate offerings of notes by Pemex, Mexico’s national oil and gas company, totaling $1.2 billion. The joint book runners were Credit Agricole Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan.
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International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has advised Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (Ecobank), on a US$100 million subscription of equity shares in the pan-African bank by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
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Proskauer has expanded its biotechnology patent litigation capabilities with the addition of Mary S. Consalvi as a Partner in the firm’s Patent Law Group. Based in New York, Ms. Consalvi is the former president and general counsel of NetBio Systems, Inc., a leading provider of rapid DNA analysis solutions located in Waltham, MA.
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Gilbert + Tobin is advising Australian gold producer, Silver Lake Resources Limited (ASX: SLR) on its acquisition of Integra Mining Limited (ASX: IGR) for A$426 million.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm won dismissal of all claims in an antitrust action brought in Washington state court against the firm’s client, LG Display, the world’s largest LCD panel maker. The state attorney general alleged that LG Display and several other manufacturers had conspired to fix the price of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, causing the State and consumers to pay supracompetitive prices for LCD products.
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Andrew D. Shaffer, an attorney who concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring, has joined the law firm Butzel Long as a Shareholder in its New York office.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Inversiones La Construcción S.A. (ILC) and the selling shareholders Cámara Chilena de la Construcción A.G. and Fondo de Inversion Privado ILC in connection with the global offering of 32,193,892 shares of ILC’s common stock. The offering, which closed on July 24, raised US$468 million, making it the largest initial public offering in the Santiago Stock Exchange’s history.
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Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP today announced that leading tax attorney Sanjay Mehta has joined the firm as a partner. Sanjay comes from the respected City of London law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP. He is the fifth new attorney to join Katten UK in the past six months and marks another key step in Katten’s strategy to build its real estate, corporate and financial services capabilities in London.
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Sparke Helmore Lawyers has appointed two new partners to its rapidly expanding Corporate team: Douglas Hall and Betsy-Ann Howe.
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A team of lawyers from Squire Sanders in Prague has assisted Westinghouse Electric Company and its Czech subsidiary in the submission of a bid for the multi-billion pound expansion of Czech power group CEZ’s nuclear plant, which was submitted earlier this month.
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