The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida last week upheld a judgment achieved by a Milbank team for the Firm’s client, the Central Bank of Mongolia (“BOM”). That victory capped a series of judgments in favor of the Central Bank, each in the amount of $69 million plus attorneys’ fees, on RICO, fraud and civil theft claims.

International law firm King & Spalding advised RockTenn Company in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, creating a $9 billion leader in the North American paperboard packaging market.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised Mexichem SAB de CV, a major Mexican chemical producer, on its US$300 million acquisition of the AlphaGary Plastic Compounding Business Division of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC). This is the second acquisition in which White & Case acted for Mexichem in less than a year.

Simpson Thacher represented JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with its sale of approximately $400 million of credit card assets to GE Capital Retail Consumer Finance, a consumer lending unit of General Electric Company.  The transaction involves a sale of JP Morgan’s consumer credit card receivables associated with a private label and co-branded MasterCard program for The TJX Companies, Inc., a leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions.  The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, subject to customary closing conditions.

Simpson Thacher is representing Apax Partners in connection with the €850,000,000 senior secured debt financing of their acquisition of Takko Group, a German clothing retailer from Advent International. Founded in 1982, Takko operates nearly 1,500 retail outlets across Europe and has a turnover of approximately €1 billion.

Hogan Lovells has advised institutional clients of La Salle Investment Management (LIM) on the acquisition of, and a £50m capital investment in, The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE)’s main site at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire.

Hogan Lovells US LLP has advised on the sale of Danvers Bancorp, Inc. (Danvers), a Massachusetts-based holding company with approximately $2.6 billion in assets, to People’s United Financial, Inc. (People’s), the holding company for People’s United Bank.

Clifford Chance represented the bondholders of Elektrim S.A. (EUR 500 m eurobonds) in Poland in a prominent dispute before the commercial, bankruptcy and arbitration courts. The case was closely related to the end of the dispute concerning ownership of shares in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, between Elektrim, Vivendi and Deutsche Telekom.