Proskauer announced today the hiring in London of a team of restructuring and insolvency lawyers led by Partners Mark Fennessy and Hazel Miller, who join from Dewey & LeBoeuf, where Mr. Fennessy headed the European Restructuring Practice.
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Clifford Chance’s London and Moscow offices recently advised Russian private bank NOMOS as the borrower in connection with an offering of U.S.$500 million of 10 per cent. loan participation notes due 2019 issued by its subsidiary Nomos Capital plc for the purpose of financing a U.S.$500 million subordinated loan. Proceeds from this transaction are expected to be included in the calculation of NOMOS Bank’s lower tier 2 capital, subject to the Central Bank of Russia’s final approval.
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Pryor Cashman represented East West Bank, a full-service commercial bank serving consumers and businesses throughout the U.S. and in Greater China, in a secured financing of Ultimate Financial Solutions LLC. The transaction closed on May 24, 2012.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised China Everbright International Limited (“China Everbright”), a company whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, on the disposal of its 80% interest in Greenway Venture Limited (“Greenway”) and its shareholder’s loan due from Greenway for approximately RMB384.8 million and HK$188.6 million respectively to TransGlobal (Asia) Holdings Limited.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong KongPaul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment and dismissal in favor of its client, Invensys plc, a UK-based technology group, in a long-running case arising from the sale of a business.
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Shearman & Sterling has announced that Nicolas Bombrun will be joining the firm shortly as a partner in the firm’s Paris office. The addition of Bombrun will further strengthen the firm’s mergers and acquisitions capabilities and its private equity practice.
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Global legal practice Squire Sanders has significantly expanded its pensions practice across the UK with the hire of two new partners: Anthea Whitton, who will join the Leeds office from Pinsent Masons and Helen Miles, who will join the Birmingham office from DLA Piper.
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On July 1st, Patricia Santon will be the first woman elected to Baker Botts’ Dallas office Partner in Charge position.
Stanton is well known as a successful commercial real estate lawyer and already holds several positions at Baker Botts in Dallas. She has worked both in the U.S. and abroad on a variety of real estate projects, from first rate hotels to tenant lease negotiations.
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DLA Piper today announced that Michael Torosian has joined the Corporate and Finance practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office.
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Rogelio Carrasquillo and Felipe Berer have joined Akerman Senterfitt’s Corporate Practice Group and Latin America & the Caribbean Practice as shareholder and of counsel respectively. Carrasquillo will be based out of the firm’s New York office and Berer out of the firm’s Miami office.
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