Baker & McKenzie announced today that it has acted as US, English and Ukrainian law counsel to the City of Kyiv on its offering of USD300 million loan participation notes.

Shearman & Sterling is representing longstanding client The Dow Chemical Company in its joint venture with Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) to build a $20 billion petrochemical plant at the Persian Gulf port of Jubail.

Davis Polk is advising Murphy Oil Corporation in connection with the sale by its wholly owned subsidiary, Murphy Oil USA, Inc., of its refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, and related assets, to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. for a sales price of $214 million plus the value of hydrocarbon inventory, and subject to certain other adjustments. The hydrocarbon inventory will be valued based on market prices at closing (the inventory was valued at approximately $260 million as of June 30, 2011). The transaction, which is expected to close later in the third quarter or fourth quarter of 2011, is subject to customary regulatory approvals and conditions.

Simmons & Simmons is advising Rothschild as joint sponsor and financial adviser and Evolution Securities and Peel Hunt as joint sponsors and brokers to Wichford P.L.C (“Wichford”) on the £208.7 million acquisition of Redefine International plc (“Redefine”) by Wichford, and the listing of the enlarged property investment company on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Simmons & Simmons has advised Kentz Corporation Limited, the holding company of the Kentz engineering and construction group, on the listing of its ordinary shares on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority with a premium listing and admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc’s main market for listed securities.

WOLF THEISS has advised the sportswear manufacturer PUMA in seven countries on the foundation of a European Company (Societas Europaea/SE) by conversion. WOLF THEISS thus underscore their expertise in international corporate law.

Clifford Chance has today announced that its new office in Casablanca will open by the end of 2011. This is the next stage in the Firm’s plans to extend its existing strong Africa practice. The office will be the Firm’s first in Africa and will act as a hub for clients across the wider North African and Sub-Saharan Francophone region.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire privately held Amira Pharmaceuticals, a small-molecule pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and early development of new drugs to treat inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.

The international law firm DLA Piper has successfully advised Maha Vajiralongkorn, the Crown Prince of Thailand, in a dispute on the seizure of his aircraft before the Regional Court of Landshut (Germany). By decision of 20 July 2011, the court revoked the seizure of the Crown Prince’s Boeing 737-400, which had been carried out on the Airport of Munich on 11 July 2011, a-gainst a security of € 20 mio until the final decision. The ruling is a provisional decision on a third party action against execution which has been brought by the Cologne office of DLA Piper on behalf of the Crown Prince on 15 July 2011.