Baker Hostetler Advises on Petroleum Transparency in Ghana

Baker Hostetler Business Associate Stephen T. Olson and Litigation Associate Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky travelled to the West African country of Ghana earlier in October to advise on legal issues concerning the management of that country’s newfound oil wealth. Olson and Ramos-Mrosovsky travelled at the invitation of Oxfam America, a leading international development organization and client of Ramos-Mrosovsky’s.

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Cooley Opens China Office

Cooley LLP announced today that it has opened an office in Shanghai, China. The office extends the firm’s market leadership in advising innovative companies and investors in sectors spanning software, hardware and mobile technology, digital and social media, life sciences and clean energy into one of the world’s most dynamic and essential  markets.

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Bracewell & Giuliani To Add 14 Public Finance Partners

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that 14 members of a public finance and related tax and municipal securities practice at Vinson & Elkins LLP will join the firm as partners in January 2012. It is anticipated that other lawyers will join them as counsel and associates. Ben A. Brooks III, W. Glenn Opel and Barron F. Wallace will lead Bracewell’s Texas- and Washington, D.C.-based public finance group.

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IP Litigator Vernon M. Winters to Join Sidley’s San Francisco Office

Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Vernon M. Winters will join its San Francisco office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice, effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Winters focuses his practice on complex patent and patent license litigation for life sciences companies and technology companies. He has litigated cases in jurisdictions nationwide and has worked with a number of the country’s leading technology companies.

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Vinson & Elkins LLP Advises Iraq Oil Ministry in US$17 Billion Basrah Gas Company Joint Venture

Vinson & Elkins LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP are acting as joint counsel to the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq in connection with the Basrah Gas Company project, a joint venture between South Gas Company (an Oil Ministry affiliate) and affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corporation. The transaction agreements were signed on November 27, 2011.

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Davis Polk Advises V.F. Corporation on Its $1.25 Billion Revolving Credit Facility

Davis Polk advised V.F. Corporation, V.F. Investments S.a r.l. and VF Enterprises S.a r.l. in connection with a new five-year $1.25 billion multicurrency unsecured revolving credit facility. The facility refinances V.F. Corporation’s existing domestic and international revolving credit facilities and may be used for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions, repurchases of outstanding shares of V.F. Corporation’s common stock and other lawful corporate purposes.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Initial Purchasers in $800 Million Debt Offering by SESI, L.L.C.

Simpson Thacher represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and the other initial purchasers in an offering by SESI, L.L.C of $800 million aggregate principal amount of 7.125% Senior Notes due 2021, in connection with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Complete Production Services, Inc. by Superior Energy Services, Inc.  The offering was conducted pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.

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