Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Bank plc, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.125% notes due 2022 by AngloGold Ashanti Holdings plc, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AngloGold Ashanti).

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Jones Day is pleased to welcome Franco Lambertenghi as a new partner in the Firm’s Energy Practice in Milan.

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Wragge & Co’s Projects team has advised infrastructure services provider Amey on its new £2 billion highways management and maintenance contract with Sheffield City Council, which reached financial close on 31 July. This follows on from the firm’s role in advising Amey on the Birmingham Highways PFI project.

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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Michael A. Yuffee has joined the Firm’s M&A/private equity group, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Yuffee focuses his practice on regulatory, enforcement defense and transactional matters relating to the wholesale energy markets. He brings extensive experience in leading the energy due diligence and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) aspects of M&A and financing transactions, representing clients in energy regulatory proceedings and conducting energy-related litigations and investigations.

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Paul, Weiss advised Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian mining company with operations focused in the Asia Pacific region and majority-owned by Rio Tinto, on a $1.8 billion rights offering, which closed on July 27, 2012, as part of a comprehensive financing plan for continuing development of its Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. Rio Tinto committed to support the rights offering by exercising its full basic subscription privilege with respect to its 50.9% shareholding in Ivanhoe Mines, as well as by providing a standby commitment for the full amount of the rights offering, subject to certain conditions.

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