Leading international law firm Clifford Chance is advising European private equity firm, Cinven on its acquisition of Mercury Pharma, the international speciality pharmaceutical company, for £465 million. Mercury markets niche and branded pharmaceuticals, with its customers including retail pharmacies and hospitals in the UK and abroad. Completion of the acquisition is expected on 31 August 2012.
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The New York office of Quinn Emanuel has recruited attorney Tai-Heng Cheng as a partner to the firm’s international arbitration practice.
Mr. Cheng is a tenured professor and co-chair of New York University’s Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy. He is a graduate Yale Law School and Oxford University.
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The Denver office of Bryan Cave has expanded its litigation department with the recruitment of four lateral partners from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The team includes Peter Korneffel, Timothy Beyer, Amy Benson and Kathryn DeBord. These litigators bring significant experience in commercial and intellectual property litigation and are well respected in the legal world.
Tags: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | DenverThe expansion of the firm’s international arbitration practice is a priority for 2012. As part of that effort, Tai-Heng Cheng, tenured professor and Co-Director of New York Law School’s Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy, has now joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Stephen Jagusch, former Global Chair of Allen & Overy’s International Arbitration Practice, and his partner Anthony Sinclair, one of the leading public international law practitioners in the field, have announced that they will join the firm’s London office as partners. This follows on the recent additions of David Orta from Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C., and Ivan Marisin, former Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Moscow office, and his colleague Vasily Kuznetsov in Moscow. Working alongside the firm’s International and Domestic Arbitration Chair, Fred Bennett, these additions substantially enhance the firm’s ability to represent clients in international arbitration matters.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP and Australian national law firmMiddletons are in discussions regarding a possible combination. If approved, the combination would create a firm of more than 2,000 lawyers in 45 offices throughout Australia, North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR), a real estate investment trust, in the final closing of Acadia Strategic Opportunity Fund IV LLC (“Fund IV”). The fund has received total capital commitments of approximately $541 million since its initial closing on May 16, 2012.
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Kaye Scholer announced that Dr. Annette Bödeker shortly will join as a Partner and head of the Corporate Department in the Firm’s Frankfurt office. An accomplished corporate lawyer with a broad client base covering German and international corporations, Bödeker focuses on corporate governance and compliance matters, cross-border M&A, international joint ventures, reorganizations and restructurings and finance. Representative clients include Citigroup Global Markets, Qioptiq Group, Bosch and Levi Strauss & Co., among others.
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Getinge has agreed to acquire US-based Kinetic Concepts Inc.’s Therapeutic Support Systems (TSS) business for USD 275 million. The TSS portfolio and operations will be integrated into Getinge Extended Care under the ArjoHuntleigh brand.
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Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representative of the initial purchasers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Continental Resources, Inc. of $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 5% senior notes due 2022.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised El Paso Electric Company in connection with the issuance of an aggregate of $82.5 million of pollution control refunding revenue bonds. One series of $33.3 million was issued by the City of Farmington, New Mexico, relating to the Four Corners Generating Station, a coal-fired steam electric power plant in San Juan County, New Mexico. The other series of $59.235 million was issued by the Maricopa County, Arizona Pollution Control Corporation and related to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona. The City of Farmington bonds bear interest at 1.875% and mature in 2032 and are being remarketed by U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. The Maricopa County, Arizona Pollution Control Corporation bonds bear interest at 4.5% and mature in 2042 and are being underwritten by U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.
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