CMS in Brussels, London and Belgrade, with assistance from other CMS offices and local lawyers, has successfully advised the Delhaize Group in relation to the acquisition of Delta Maxi Group, the leading Serbian food retail company which operate more than 450 stores in five Southeastern European countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania).

Shearman & Sterling is representing Tata Steel UK Limited which has signed an agreement to sell certain assets of Teesside Cast Products (TCP) to Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Limited (SSI), Thailand’s largest steel producer, in a deal worth $469 million plus an amount representing working capital.

Shearman & Sterling represented Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. in connection with its public offering of $300 million 4.500% Notes due 2021 and $100 million Floating Rate Notes due 2014. Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. markets, produces and distributes nonalcoholic beverages to approximately 163 million customers throughout Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. It is The Coca-Cola Company’s strategic bottling partner in Western Europe and its third-largest independent bottler globally.

DLA Piper has advised Intertek Group plc (‘Intertek’) on its £450 million acquisition of Moody International (‘Moody’) which was announced today.

The Tokyo Office of the Firm is representing a consortium comprised of Japan’s JFE Steel Corporation (JFE), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) and Sojitz Corporation (Sojitz) and Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and POSCO in the acquisition of a 15% stake in Companhia Brasileria de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) for $1.95 billion.  JFE, NSC and POSCO are three of the world’s largest steel producers, JOGMEC is a Japanese independent administrative corporation, NPS is a Korean pension fund and Sojitz is a leading Japanese trading company.

The 1220 km long Nord Stream Phase II pipeline will transport gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany with this second of two pipelines providing a transmission capacity of about 27.5 billion cubic metres a year.

Shearman & Sterling is representing Gambro AB, jointly controlled by Investor AB (49%) and EQT IV (51%), in its agreement to sell CaridianBCT to the Japanese medical technology company Terumo Corporation for a total enterprise value of US $2.625 billion. The transaction is subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities.

Norton Rose Australia today announced the launch of an association with the Indonesian legal practice Susandarini & Partners in Jakarta. Susandarini & Partners is led by partner Susandarini, a recognised leading commercial lawyer, who has over 17 years experience advising clients in the Indonesian legal market.