Bredin Prat and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd. as global coordinator on a secondary offering of 24.2 million shares of Renault S.A. by the French Finance Ministry. The shares were placed under Rule 144A and Regulation S and raised approximately €1.2 billion. The sale is part of the French government’s ongoing […]

Spain’s largest private equity deal for 2003 included legal counsel from a team of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. lawyers. The Squire Sanders lawyers leading the deal included Joachín Echanove, Maria Pilar García and Juan Pićon. The deal involved Nazca Capital, a Spanish private equity firm, and Cosecheros Abastecedores,S.A., a USD 133 million (€116 million)

Freehills wins in Victorian Supreme Court for Murraylink A team from Freehills’ litigation practice has had an important win in the Victorian Supreme Court on behalf of its client Murraylink Transmission Company (Murraylink). According to lead partner Alan Mitchell, the win was especially significant because it overturned decisions by the national electricity regulator (NEMMCO) and

Fenwick & West has represented Livermore, California-based computer-chip testing equipment maker FormFactor, Inc. (Nasdaq:FORM) in its initial public offering. The offering raised over $84 million for FormFactor, which issued 6,000,000 shares of common stock in the offering. The Fenwick & West team representing FormFactor was led by corporate partner Mark Leahy. The offering was underwritten

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it has significantly enhanced the depth of services provided by its Global Transfer Pricing Practice Group, a subgroup of the Firm’s Global Tax Practice. With the addition of Holly E. Glenn as a senior economist, Baker & McKenzie will enhance its ability to provide comprehensive economic and valuation services

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it acted for the Mathys family to reach agreement to combine Mathys Medizinaltechnik AG and Synthes-Stratec Inc. to create a global osteosynthesis medical device company. To effect the transaction, Synthes-Stratec is purchasing all Mathys shares for CHF 1 billion in cash and CHF 500 million in Synthes-Stratec equity, issuing

It’s homecoming time for two attorneys who will soon become the newest members of the Market Trial Practice Group in the Wilmington office of Reed Smith, a top -20 international law firm. Judith M. Kinney will join the firm on August 4, and John G. “Jack” Harris will rejoin the firm on July 8. Greg

Internationally prominent attorney Ko-Yung Tung has rejoined the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP after serving as the Vice President and General Counsel at the World Bank and as Secretary General of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). At the World Bank, Mr. Tung was responsible for all legal aspects of

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it advised Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka, a.s. (CSOB) on the transfer to the Czech Consolidation Agency (CKA) of shares in foreign fund structures established by the former Investicni a Postovni banka, a.s. (IPB) for a purchase price exceeding €1.6 billion. CSOB acquired the assets and liabilities of IPB in June

Aside from the Holocaust litigation that took place in the 1990s and some of which still continues;one thing still rings true in the simplest of terms; there were policies purchased, there were deaths, and there should have been payments. Only until recently have insurers begun to acknowledge the existence of policies, and still they continue