Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP represented General Electric Co. in its $520 million acquisition of Lineage Power Holdings Inc. from private equity firm Gores Group LLC.

Clifford Chance’s London office advised the lead manager on the Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of U.S.$568 million 8.375% guaranteed notes due 2017 issued by a Ukrainian state agency for the purpose of financing the construction of infrastructure for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Ukraine.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented medical legal services company ExamWorks Group, Inc. (NYSE: EXAM) on its definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding stock of MES Group, Inc. (MES), a provider of independent medical examinations, peer reviews, and utilization reviews to the automotive, disability, liability, and workers’ compensation markets.

Davis Polk advised The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, a public limited company incorporated in Scotland, on its SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.25% senior notes due 2014 and $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.125% senior notes due 2021 guaranteed by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. The senior notes were offered for the retail market. RBS Securities Inc. acted as the sole bookrunner and lead manager and BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNY Mellon Capital Markets LLC, CIBC World Markets Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and TD Securities (USA) LLC acted as co-managers.

The Firm is representing ITT Corporation in connection with its plan, announced on January 12, to separate the company’s businesses into three distinct, publicly traded companies.  Under the plan, ITT would execute tax-free spinoffs of its water-related businesses and its Defense & Information Solutions segment. Following the completion of the transaction, ITT shareholders will own shares in all three corporations. ITT expects to finalize and execute the plan before the end of the year.

Kramer Levin is representing Huntingdon Real Estate Investment Trust in its proposed merger with Fisher Communications, Inc., with Huntingdon proposing to acquire all outstanding shares of Fisher Communications’ common stock. Huntingdon is a real estate investment trust listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and owns 75 income producing office, industrial, retail and standalone parking lot properties. Fisher Communications is a Seattle-based media company with television, internet, radio, internet and mobile operations throughout the western United States.

Chadbourne & Parke prevailed in a trademark dispute on behalf of Bad Boy Entertainment’s Sean “Puffy” Combs (P. Diddy) against a company which attempted to register “IDIDDY” for headphones and cases for cell phones, MP3 players and similar electronic devices.

Ashurst advised partners from Zolfo Cooper,  the world’s pre-eminent advisory and interim management firm, on their role as administrators in the sale of the assets of Weather Finance III (WFIII) including all the shares in WIND Hellas Telecommunications, a leading Greek telecoms company.