International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed leading Asian banking, finance and energy lawyer Thomas Ng to the firm’s partnership. He will be based in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Mr Ng specialises in advising Chinese banks and companies on major banking, projects and energy transactions throughout Asia and around the world More >>
Global law firm Dentons has advised STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-Gesellschaft mbH on the acquisition of a property portfolio containing just under 1,000 residential and six commercial units in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district of Berlin. The transaction is still subject to approval by the cartel authorities. The portfolio acquired is nearly fully let and comprises buildings with around 56,500 sqm living space, distributed equally between Marzahn and Hellersdorf More >>
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Davis Polk advised the note purchasers, exchanging noteholders and lenders in connection with the debt recapitalization of Venoco, Inc., consisting of (i) the issuance by Venoco of $175 million principal amount of 12.0% first-lien senior secured notes due 2019, (ii) the private exchange by Venoco of $194 million in principal and accrued interest of Venoco’s outstanding 8.875% senior unsecured notes due 2019 for $150.35 million in principal amount of 8.875%/12.0% PIK toggle second-lien senior secured notes due 2019 and (iii) a new $75 million secured term loan facility. Approximately $72 million of proceeds from the issuance of the first-lien secured notes were used to repay and terminate the company’s existing reserve-based revolving credit facility More >>
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkChadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Andrei Baev has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department, resident in the London and Moscow offices. Mr. Baev was previously a partner with Berwin Leighton Paisner and will serve as the Managing Partner of Chadbourne’s Moscow office, which opened in 1990 More >>
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Global law firm Shearman & Sterling has strengthened its M&A and corporate practices—including public and private M&A, private equity, capital markets and corporate governance—with the addition of Rob Masella, who joins the firm as a partner in the New York office More >>
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Polsinelli welcomes new shareholders Michael D. Pegues and Jason A. Wietjes to its Dallas office to bolster the firm’s growing national Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation Group. Drawing upon more than 20 years of extensive experience in complex IP disputes, Pegues focuses on patent litigation while Wietjes works with both established and start-up tech firms to strategically defend, enforce and monetize their intellectual property More >>
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O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Tobias L. “Toby” Knapp, an experienced mergers and acquisitions and private equity lawyer, has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Knapp and partner Paul Scrivano serve as co-heads of U.S. M&A and Private Equity, working with partner Steve Tonsfeldt, O’Melveny’s Global Head of M&A and Private Equity More >>
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A cross border team from global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Emirates on a US$913 million Sukuk, marking a world first for utilising a UK Export Finance (UKEF) backed Sukuk for an aircraft financing, the first time that a Sukuk has been used to pre-fund the acquisition of aircraft and the first ever Sukuk financing for A380 aircraft. The proceeds from the issuance of the Certificates will be used to fund the acquisition of four Airbus A380-800 aircraft, which are expected to be delivered in April, May, June and July 2015. The aircraft will be leased to and operated by Emirates More >>
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Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that James Koukios, who served in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), most recently as Senior Deputy Chief, has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Securities Litigation, Enforcement & White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group More >>
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