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.
Tags: Gowling WLG
Citing a need to expand services to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, Polsinelli Shughart welcomes three highly experienced intellectual property shareholders in New York. Tedd W. Van Buskirk, Dr. Pamela Fekete, and Dillon Kim bring more than 35 years combined experience in patent and trademark matters. The trio, who practiced together previously, focuses predominantly on patent litigation arising under the Hatch-Waxman Act and related regulatory, antitrust, and ANDA counseling work. Their clients include pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, and other life sciences companies.
Tags: Polsinelli PC | New York
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.
Tags: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Deutsche Bank as the sole bookrunner in Ayala Corporation’s US$155 million (PHP6.45 billion) treasury share block sale. Ayala Corporation is one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates, with interests in real property, banking, telecommunications, water, infrastructure and energy.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong Kong
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.
Tags: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Brian T. Hafter has joined the law firm of LeClairRyan as a partner on the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation Practice Area Teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s San Francisco office.
Tags: LeClair Ryan, PC
Baker Hostetler announced today that Dennis P. Duffy has joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as Partner in its Houston office. He comes to Baker Hostetler from Baker Botts LLP where he was Chair of the Labor and Employment practice.
Tags: Baker & Hostetler LLP | HoustonStamford Law’s growth as a major regional player has received a significant boost with the admission of two international leading lawyers, Justyn Jagger and Timothy Cooke, and local talent, Wong Kee Fong, who bring extensive regional experience to the firm. Attracting leading international lawyers, Justyn Jagger and Timothy Cooke from recognised global practices is a real coup for Stamford Law and a milestone in its development as a major regional law firm.
Tags: Singapore
Baker & McKenzie’s Securities team recently advised the issuer, CFG Investment S.A.C., an indirect wholly-owned Peruvian subsidiary of China Fishery Group Limited, on its offering of 9.75% Senior Notes due 2019 in a principal amount of USD300 million. The Notes are guaranteed by China Fishery Group Limited and certain of its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Notes are listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. The Notes have been rated Ba3 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., BB– by Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services and BB by Fitch Ratings, Inc.
Tags: Baker McKenzie | Hong Kong
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced the appointment of Marcos Daniel Jiménez (“Marc”) as a partner in the Firm’s Trial Practice, based in Miami and New York.
Tags: McDermott Will & Emery LLP | Miami