Perkins Coie Grows New York Office

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Gary Eisenberg has joined the firm’s New York office as Partner in the firm’s Financial Transactions & Restructuring practice. He joins the firm from Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

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Fulbright Advises Sinopec in a Multibillion-Dollar Joint Venture in Several U.S. Shale Plays

Fulbright represented Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration & Production Corporation, a unit of China’s Sinopec Group, in connection with its purchase from an affiliate of Devon Energy Corporation of an undivided 33.3% interest in, and the development of, approximately 1.2 million acres of oil and gas properties located in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi, the Niobrara in Colorado and Wyoming, the Mississippian in Oklahoma, the Utica Shale in Ohio and the Michigan Basin.

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Clifford Chance Advises Mitsui on Further Acquisition of Water Management and Recycling Business in Mainland China

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Japan’s Mitsui & Co., Ltd., through Galaxy NewSpring Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company equally held by Mitsui and Singapore’s Hyflux Ltd., on the purchase of two of Hyflux’s water treatment companies for US$41.2 million. The agreement was signed on 27 December 2011.

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Wragge & Co Advises ProStrakan on Cross-Border Agreement

Wragge & Co’s Life Sciences team has advised ProStrakan Group plc on a cross-border licensing and distribution agreement with international pharmaceutical company Aptalis Pharma Inc. The deal is Wragge & Co’s first major instruction from ProStrakan, the international specialty pharmaceutical company which is part of the Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd. (KHK) group of companies.

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Jones Day Welcomes Prominent Environmental Law Partner in Chicago

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Tom Skinner has joined the Firm as a partner in the Chicago Office. He formerly served as acting Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator, and as Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. He most recently was head of the environmental law group at Mayer Brown LLP.

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