Wragge & Co’s Intellectual Property (IP) team has secured a significant Supreme Court result for Contour Aerospace in its high-profile patent case against Virgin Atlantic. The court has awarded Contour the right to appeal a Court of Appeal decision which found it infringed the patent of Virgin’s upper class aircraft seat.

Covington & Burling LLP represented The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its $500 million registered underwritten offering of 5.875 percent Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, which closed on March 31, 2011. Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citi and Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. served as joint book-running managers for the offering.

A joint Hong Kong, London and Paris energy team has advised CNOOC Limited on sales and purchase agreements to acquire Tullow’s one third interest in exploration areas 1, 2 and 3A in Uganda.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, which represents U.S. and international clients across a wide spectrum of legal specialties, is expanding its national presence by merging  with White O’Connor Fink & Brenner LLP, a highly respected Los Angeles litigation firm best known for its success in complex business and entertainment industry litigation.

Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with the SEC-registered secondary offering of 30,000,000 shares of common stock of NXP Semiconductors N.V. The underwriters also exercised an option to purchase an additional 4,431,000 shares from the selling stockholders. The aggregate price to the public was $1,033 million. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “NXPI.”

Davis Polk advised Repsol YPF, S.A. and YPF, S.A. in connection with the public offering by Repsol of 30,145,898 American Depository Shares (ADSs) of YPF. The gross proceeds to Repsol from the offering were over $1.2 billion. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Itaú BBA, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James and Santander Investment acted as underwriters for the offering.

The Firm recently represented Barclays Capital Inc. in connection with InterDigital, Inc.’s offering of $230 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 2016.

Fenwick & West LLP represented its client Diamond Foods, Inc. in its pending merger with the Pringles business of The Procter & Gamble Company (“P&G”). Pringles is the world’s largest potato crisp brand with sales in over 140 countries and manufacturing operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The global, iconic brand will join Diamond’s dynamic portfolio of brands, which includes Diamond of California and Emerald nuts, Pop Secret microwave popcorn and Kettle Brand potato chips.