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On 26 January, 2004 Duelguide (a company established by Elliott Bernerd and certain other investors for the purpose of making the offer) and the Independent Directors of Chelsfield announced a recommended offer by Duelguide to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Chelsfield, other than those Chelsfield shares which Duelguide has

Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited and Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. as joint global coordinators on a combined U.S. private placement and Regulation S offering of ¥194 billion ($1.8 billion) of common stock by NEC Corporation. This is the largest non-bank primary share offer since NTT DoCoMo’s in 2001.

On Thursday 22nd January 2004, Clifford Chance was awarded the prestigious “Global Law Firm of the Year” Award at Project Finance International’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Rodney Short, Paul Simpson, Bleddyn Phillips, Margaret Gossling, Malcolm Turner, Dan Reynell and Julian Nichol attended the event at the Dorchester Hotel in London and collected the award on behalf

Baker & McKenzie is pleased to announce that the BLCP Power Limited deal it has been working on in Thailand recently was named by Asiamoney as “Project Finance Deal of the Year for 2003”. The award relates to the US$1.3 billion project financing of a 1,400 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Rayong Province in

Charles F. Schill, an experienced international trade and patent litigator, has joined the international trade and investment and technology, Internet and media departments of Steptoe & Johnson LLP’s Washington office as a partner. He has nearly three decades of law firm and government practice experience in the areas of intellectual property and international trade. He

A Utah-based corporation that distributes a product called BioGevity – an oral spray product that used to contain human growth hormone (HGH) – was ordered today to pay a $500,000 criminal fine and to forfeit $1.25 million in profits. Neways, Inc., which is based in Salem, Utah, was ordered to forfeit the $1.25 million, which

January 28, 2004 · News Paul, Weiss Client Airgas to Buy Unit of BOC Group The Daily Deal Paul, Weiss client Airgas, Inc. announced it signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire most of the assets of the U.S. packaged gas business of BOC Group plc in a transaction valued up to $200 million.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP is representing Houston-based Rockland Capital Energy Investments LLC in a deal by its Rockland Prime Holdings LLC affiliate to purchase a 50% stake in Prime Energy LP from Aquila Corp. Prime Energy owns a 65-megawatt electric generating plant in Elmwood Park, N.J. Chadbourne attorneys working on the deal include Andrea Satty,

Messer Griesheim, a leading producer of industrial and specialty gases, has sold its operations in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States to Air Liquide for the amount of €2.7 bn. At the same time, the owners of Messer Griesheim, Allianz Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs and the Messer Industrie GmbH (MIG) have reached a

Linklaters is acting for MGM MIRAGE, the leading US hotel and gaming resort operator on its £270 million cash bid for Wembley plc, the dog racing and gaming group. The deal is being structured, using a scheme of arrangement, so as to ring fence potential liabilities arising under indictments facing Wembley in the United States.