Mallesons Stephen Jaques has acted on Origin Energy’s $2.3 bn entitlement offer, advising the underwriters JP. Morgan, Macquarie Capital Advisers and Merrill Lynch International (Australia).

Clayton Utz is the legal adviser to Origin Energy in its $2.3 billion pro rata renounceable entitlement offer announced to the market yesterday.

Clayton Utz’s national head of Equity Capital Markets, Stuart Byrne, led the Clayton Utz Equity Capital Markets team that advised Origin Energy on the transaction, with support from senior associate Richard Knott.

Simpson Thacher represented J.P.Morgan Securities LLC, as global coordinator and joint bookrunner, and BTG Pactual US Capital Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, as joint bookrunners, in connection with the public secondary offering of 21,628,728 American depositary shares representing ordinary shares of Ternium S.A. owned by Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. – Usiminas.  Concurrently with the offering, Usiminas Europa A/S sold the remainder of its shares in Ternium S.A. to Ternium International Inc., a subsidiary of Ternium S.A., and Techint Holdings S.àr.l., the controlling shareholder of Ternium S.A., in a private transaction.  The transaction closed on February 15, 2011, and the over-allotment option closed on February 18, 2011.

Davis Polk is advising Digicel Group Limited on its agreement with América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. to acquire its Claro business in Jamaica and sell to América Móvil its businesses in El Salvador and Honduras. The completion of the transaction is subject to governmental and regulatory approvals in Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica, among other conditions, and is expected to occur during the second quarter of 2011.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Bridgepoint on the acquisition of CABB, a German global provider of fine and specialty chemicals and custom manufacturing solutions, from AXA Private Equity for an undisclosed sum. 

Wragge & Co’s corporate experts have advised CBPE Capital (CBPE) on its investment in Insurance Management company Kane Group. This complex deal included a reorganisation of the Kane Group and its US $27.5 million acquisition of HSBC’s insurance management businesses.

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, led by Global Project Finance co-chair Eric Silverman and Head of Asia Global Project Finance Gary Wigmore, represented Toyota Tsusho Corp. (Toyota Tsusho) and Chubu Electric Power Co. (Chubu) in the acquisition of the majority stake in the 880-MW Goreway Station (Goreway), a natural gas-fired combined cycle electricity generating facility in Ontario, Canada, held by Sithe Global Power (Sithe).

Kaye Scholer LLP advised Shenzen PRC based investment management firm, Munsun Asset Managements Limited, and its founder, Mr. Li Xianghong, on the launch of the second of a series of China-focused hedge fund, Essence Munsun China Growth Fund.

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP represented Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in its definitive agreement to acquire The Lubrizol Corporation in an all-cash transaction. The deal was announced on March 14, 2011 and is valued at approximately $9.7 billion, including approximately $0.7 billion in net debt, making it one of the largest acquisitions in Berkshire Hathaway history.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP attorneys won a landmark legal victory with a jury verdict last week and entry of judgment today in South Carolina federal district court in a first-of-its kind trademark infringement case on behalf of its client, Roger Cleveland Golf Company Inc. (“Cleveland Golf/Srixon”). (Roger Cleveland Golf Company, Inc. v. Prince (et al.), March 14, 2011)