International law firm Eversheds has advised SPX Corporation, a global manufacturing and industrial equipment supplier, on its £700m acquisition of CLYDEUNION Pumps.

One of San Antonio’s most prominent law firms, Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison and Tate, Inc., will join Strasburger & Price, LLP to create the city’s fourth largest firm with more than 40 attorneys locally. All current practicing shareholders of Oppenheimer Blend will be joining the combined firm, including the three remaining name shareholders, Stanley Blend, Reese Harrison and John Tate.   Statewide, the combined firm will boast over 210 attorneys making it one of the 20 largest firms in the state.  In San Antonio, the combined firm will be known as Strasburger Price Oppenheimer Blend. The combination will be effective at the end of this month.   The firms will initially remain in their existing office spaces but plan to consolidate into a single office in early 2012.

Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC announced today the expansion of offices into Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama.  Three Alabama attorneys have joined the firm: Michael B. Beers, A. David Fawal and Angela T. Baker.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised ABN AMRO Bank N.V. on the agreed sale of its Swiss Private Banking activities to Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA.

Simpson Thacher represented Centerbridge Partners in the acquisition by one of its affiliates of a controlling interest in Remedi SeniorCare Holding Corporation for an aggregate capital commitment of up to $300 million.  The investment will be used to support the continued development and deployment of Remedi’s automated medication administration technology, as well as acquisitions and greenfield start-up pharmacies in new markets across the United States.