SandRidge Permian Trust recently announced the closing of its initial public offering of 34.5 million common units of beneficial interest at a price of $18 per unit.  Net proceeds of the offering, before expenses, were approximately $584 million.  The common units sold in the offering represent a 66 percent beneficial interest in the trust.  Covington & Burling served as counsel to SandRidge Energy, Inc., the trust’s sponsor, in the transaction.

SNR Denton announced today it has successfully advised Lightsource Renewable Energy Limited (Lightsource) in its acquisition and development of eleven of the largest solar PV panel installations in the UK. Lightsource was funded by Octopus Investments.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised private equity firm Permira on Cargill’s EUR 1.5 billion offer to acquire Provimi, a world leader in animal nutrition. Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.

The Firm represented Goldman, Sachs & Co. as the sole underwriter in the public offering of $2 billion of debt securities of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (“Berkshire”), consisting of $750,000,000 of 2.20% Senior Notes due 2016, $500,000,000 of 3.75% Senior Notes due 2021 and $750,000,000 of Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2014.

In August of 2011, the international restructuring of the debt portfolio for Donetsksteel, a well-known Ukrainian finance and industrial group, for USD 820 million was successfully completed. More than 35 international and Ukrainian banks were among the group’s creditors.

Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that it will open a new office in Duesseldorf at the beginning of 2012. The new office will focus initially on corporate, real estate and antitrust matters.

A multi-disciplinary team at Clyde & Co has advised Kolkata based WPIL, which has over 50 years experience in designing and manufacturing pumping systems, on its acquisition of Mathers Foundry Limited, a leading supplier of top quality steel sand castings based in Manchester.