Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in $2.5 Billion Debt Offerings by Target Corporation

Friday, January 13, 2012
The Firm represented the underwriters in two offerings by Target Corporation:  $1 billion principal amount of 2.900% Notes due 2022 in a public offering underwritten by an underwriting syndicate led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan; and $1.5 billion principal amount of Floating Rate Notes due 2013 in a public offering underwritten by Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan.

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Sutherland Represents BlueStar Energy Holdings Inc. in Acquisition by American Electric Power

Friday, January 13, 2012
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP advised BlueStar Energy Holdings Inc. in its acquisition by Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power. Based in Chicago, BlueStar Energy Holdings Inc. supplies electric power to more than 20,000 customers across six states and the District of Columbia via its independent supplier, BlueStar Energy Solutions.

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DLA Piper Expands Silicon Valley Office with Prominent Five-Partner Corporate and Intellectual Property Team

Thursday, January 12, 2012
DLA Piper today announced that a team of five prominent Silicon Valley lawyers will join the firm as partners. Rich Scudellari, Armando Castro and Matt Oshinsky join the Corporate and Securities Group, while David M. Lisi joins the Litigation practice and Craig P. Opperman will join the Intellectual Property Group, effective January 11. Scudellari, the senior member of the group, will also assume the role of co-office managing partner in Silicon Valley with Sang Kim, the current office managing partner.

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Bart Huffman Joins Locke Lord’s Austin Office as an Intellectual Property Partner with Emphasis on Privacy and Internet Technology Matters

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Locke Lord announces that Bart Huffman has joined its Austin office as a Partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group. Huffman headed his previous firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice, and his wide experience in this complex area of the law increases Locke Lord’s IP platform as it evolves to meet clients’ growing global needs.

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BLP Appoints Experienced Structured Finance Specialist Prashanth Satyadeva

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) today (11 January 2012) announced that it has made a further hire to its Banking & Capital Markets (BCM) Group, with the appointment of structured finance specialist Prashanth Satyadeva , a partner in the securitisation team at Clifford Chance following the announcement of the hire of structured finance partner Simon Small.

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Paul Hastings European Leveraged Finance and Capital Markets Practice Welcomes Leading New Partner

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Karl F. Balz has joined the Leveraged Finance and Capital Markets practice in Frankfurt, Germany, and London, UK, as a partner. Mr. Balz, previously with Hengeler Mueller, London, has considerable experience in leveraged finance and capital markets, in particular high yield bond offerings. His practice also encompasses M&A work and restructurings.

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DLA Piper Australian Lawyers Advise on Historic South African Renewable Energy Programme

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Lawyers in DLA Piper’s Australian practice have advised more than half of the 28 successful bidders for Phase 1 of South Africa’s Independent Power Producers (IPP) Procurement Programme. DLA Piper is the only law firm that utilised lawyers from its Australian practice to advise on the programme. 
The renewable energy IPP Procurement Programme is a landmark project for South Africa and has been designed to stimulate the country’s renewable energy sector. The goal is to generate 42% of all new electricity from renewable energy sources over the next 20 years. Technologies under consideration include solar, wind, hydro, biomass and biogas.

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Clifford Chance Advises on Agricultural Development Bank of China’s Inaugural Launch of RMB3 Billion Bonds in Hong Kong

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited and Standard Chartered Bank as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners on the Agricultural Development Bank of China’s (ADBC) offering of RMB3 billion bonds in Hong Kong. The offering was successfully priced on 10 January 2012, and the bonds are expected to be issued on 17 January 2012. The bonds to be issued are targeted at institutional investors, with terms of two, three and five years and coupon rates of 3.00%, 3.20% and 3.50%, respectively. This deal was the first RMB bond issuance in 2012 and ADBC’s first offshore bond issuance.

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Clifford Chance Advises Doedijns International on Acquisition of Singapore’s Wilmax Control Systems

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Doedijns International BV (Doedijns) on its “bolt-on” acquisition of Singapore-based Wilmax Control Systems Ltd (Wilmax), a provider of control automation and process packages for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries, with facilities in Singapore, Indonesia and Dubai, supporting the South East Asia and Middle East markets.

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