Arent Fox LLP won a major victory on June 23 for its client, the President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame, when the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma denied a plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment in a wrongful death suit by the widows of the deceased presidents of Burundi and Rwanda, who were killed in an airplane explosion in 1994.

Goodwin Procter served as legal counsel to client ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator in simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, on its acquisition of Apache Design Solutions, Inc., a leading simulation software provider.

Hogan Lovells advised long-time client News Corporation on its sale of  online social networking company MySpace to Specific Media, a digital media company. As part of the transaction News Corporation will retain a minority equity stake in Specific Media.

A cross-office Baker & McKenzie team has advised AXA Private Equity on its USD740 million purchase of a portfolio of funds interests from Barclays.

Herbert Smith LLP is pleased to announce the official opening of its Belfast office. The firm’s new office is located at 3 Cromac Quay, on the site of the former Belfast Gasworks, one of the city’s most famous landmarks.

Allen & Overy today announces the opening of a new office in Washington, D.C., with the addition of three new partners to bolster its leading U.S. Regulatory practice, in order to help clients meet the challenges of a radically altered regulatory landscape in the U.S.

Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as sole underwriter in the SEC-registered offering by Insulet Corporation of $125 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% convertible senior notes due 2016, plus an $18.75 million over-allotment option, which has been exercised by the underwriter. Davis Polk also advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representative of the several underwriters in the SEC-registered offering by Insulet’s selling stockholders of 1,153,420 shares of Insulet common stock. The selling stockholders received shares of Insulet in connection with Insulet’s recent acquisition of Neighborhood Diabetes, Inc., a medical equipment distributor specializing in direct to consumer sales of diabetes supplies. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “PODD.”