Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, HSBC, RBS, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, as joint book-running managers, in connection with an offering by Halliburton Company of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.25% Senior Notes due 2021 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.50% Senior Notes due 2041.

Nixon Peabody LLP furthered its leadership in managing trusts, estates, and assets of individuals and families in the U.S. and abroad with the move of a significant group of attorneys and staff from Edwards Wildman (formerly Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon). Partners Lawrence B. Cohen and Jay D. Rosenbaum, highly regarded by their peers and in the community, bring to Nixon Peabody a team providing estate planning, international private client advisory, asset management and investment, and tax services. With the addition of this team, Nixon Peabody holds in custody or under management for clients approximately $4 billion in assets.

Leading global law firm Mayer Brown advised Wolf Minerals Limited (an Australia incorporated company listed on the Australia Securities Exchange) on its proposed fast track admission to AIM.

From November 21, 2011 onwards, Emmanuel Jacomy (Associate, Singapore International Arbitration team) will represent victims in the first merits hearing in Case No. 2 before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”), a United Nations-supported tribunal set up to bring to trial senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and those who were most responsible for the crimes and serious violations of Cambodian penal law, international humanitarian law and custom, and international conventions recognized by Cambodia that were committed during that period.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance announces it is lead legal advisor to Citigroup on the disposal of its interests in the EMI Group. The disposals are being made through two separate transactions both of which were announced on Friday 11 November.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced today that Edward F. Glynn, Jr. has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, as a partner in its Advertising, Marketing & Media Division.  Glynn, who is recognized as one of the leading advertising lawyers in the United States, comes to Manatt from Venable LLP, where he was a partner.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) today announced that it has hired partner Simon Small to strengthen its finance capabilities and continue the growth of its banking & capital markets group.