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Brazil Pre-Salt Oil Auction
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company’s $1.3 Billion Registered Fixed and Floating Rate Notes Offering
Investcorp’s acquisition of strategic minority interest in Banque Pâris Bertrand Sturdza
Consolidated Edison’s $1.54 billion acquisition of Renewable Electric Production Projects from Sempra Energy
Hearthside Food Solutions LLC’s US$1,075 million acquisition of US business of Greencore Group

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

111, Inc.’s US$100m listing on the Nasdaq

October 18, 2018 Michael Patrini

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised JP Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., China International Capital Corporation, as the joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters in the listing of American Depositary Shares (‘the shares’) of 111, Inc. on the Nasdaq. The total offer value is estimated to be approximately US$100m (before the exercise […]

Latin America Legal Chronicle

Brazil Pre-Salt Oil Auction

October 18, 2018 Ambrogio Visconti.

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga and Demarest advised on the Auction The government auctioned off four blocs, with the signing bonuses totaling just over 6$1.7 billion. Bids were made by offering a percentage of profit oil, which is the proportion of gains from the fields that will go to the government. Petróleo […]

Africa Legal Chronicle

$1 Billion Financing for Nigerian Fertilizer Production Facility

September 4, 2018 Andrea Canobbio

White & Case LLP has advised the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and a syndicate of around 20 development financial institutions and commercial lenders on the financing of the US$1 billion expansion of a world-scale urea fertilizer production facility near Port Harcourt, Nigeria. IFC will directly lend US$100 million and mobilize an additional US$850 million of […]

Middle East Legal Chronicle

Leejam Sports Company’s $218 Million Initial Public Offering

October 9, 2018 Michael Patrini.

White & Case LLP has advised Leejam Sports Company on its SAR 817 million (approximately US$218 million) initial public offering of 30 percent of its share capital on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). Leejam Sports Company is the operator of the largest network of fitness centres in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region under the […]

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

October 28, 2015

This year’s Tour de Law cycle event has raised a record £100,000 for Breast Cancer Care. This total is 45% more than the previous record, set last year, of £68,720.68. Simmons & Simmons were announced as the champions in the annual Tour de Law legal cycling challenge for Breast Cancer Care, on Friday morning.

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

America v. the international rule of law

October 16, 2018

A reluctance to engage effectively with international courts and intergovernmental organisations has long been a strategic component of US foreign policy. But the Trump administration surpasses all that have gone before it over the past 70 years, during which time the role and influence of such international bodies have increased significantly.

The Big Four Are Coming For You

Serious Fraud Office faces judicial review

Successful law firms: keep the customer satisfied

Diversity and the Magic Circle: room at the top?

Abramovich’s Swiss lawyer talks reputation management

October 2, 2018

Daniel Glasl is a busy man. As Switzerland’s best-known privacy lawyer, his clients are often in the media spotlight although he spends much of his time protecting their reputations by trying to keep them out of it. His latest client, Roman Abramovich, is a man who routinely attracts considerable media attention – whether he likes […]

AlixPartners’ Acquisition of Zolfo Cooper

Rappi’s $220 Million Round Funding

WeddingWire’s $933 Million Combination with XO Group, Inc.

Brazil Pre-Salt Oil Auction

Lima Airport Partners’ environmental impact assessment

Marisa Lojas SA’s $79.7 Million Notes Offering

Drax Group plc’s acquisition of Scottish Power’s portfolio of pumped storage, hydro and gas-fired generation assets

Grammer AG’s acquisition of US Component Supplier and Process Specialist Toledo Molding & Die

Bruntwood’s signing a 50:50 partnership with Legal & General to create the UK’s largest property platform

$1 Billion Financing for Nigerian Fertilizer Production Facility

Brookstone Partners’ acquisition of AM Wind

Mainstream Renewable Power’s Financing of two wind projects in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces in South Africa

Leejam Sports Company’s $218 Million Initial Public Offering

Hotel development at Silverstone circuit

GB Finance’s $42 Million Sale of One-Third Stake in MNT Investments

111, Inc.’s US$100m listing on the Nasdaq

Ircon International Limited’s $64.8 Million Initial Public Offering

Hearts and Minds Limited’s A$500 million initial public offering and listing on ASX

America v. the international rule of law

The Big Four Are Coming For You

Serious Fraud Office faces judicial review

Abramovich’s Swiss lawyer talks reputation management

Lefèvre Pelletier & associés (LPA) and CGR Legal announce their merger

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

America v. the international rule of law

The Big Four Are Coming For You

Serious Fraud Office faces judicial review

Successful law firms: keep the customer satisfied

Diversity and the Magic Circle: room at the top?

Abramovich’s Swiss lawyer talks reputation management

Lefèvre Pelletier & associés (LPA) and CGR Legal announce their merger