Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) is advising Cargill, Inc. on the sale of its malt business to Axéréal’s malt subsidiary, Boortmalt.
The transaction involves Cargill's global malt business, including 15 facilities across four continents, representing more than 500 people.
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in relation to its successful consortium bid to acquire 100% of Property Exchange Australia Limited (PEXA). The transaction, which values PEXA at approximately A$1.6 billion, prevailed over PEXA’s anticipated initial public offering (IPO).
CBA is joined in the successful consortium by existing PEXA co-shareholder Link Group and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSI).
Quinn Emanuel added power to its white-collar defense lineup Monday, tapping Sandra L. Moser for a key leadership role in the firm’s criminal defense, investigations and crisis practice areas.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP has announced that REIT duo Stuart A. Barr and Cameron N. Cosby have joined the Firm as partners in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Barr and Mr. Cosby will work closely with the Firm's robust capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, tax, and real estate practices to represent real estate investment trust (REIT) clients.
Sydney - Global law firm K&L Gates has appointed leading construction and infrastructure lawyer Simon Ashworth as a partner in its Sydney office. Ashworth joins K&L Gates from Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
King & Spalding has recruited project finance specialist Robin Bayley as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance & Investments practice based in Abu Dhabi.
London — Mayer Brown has announced that Dasha Sobornova has joined the firm's Banking & Finance practice in London as a partner. Her appointment enhances the firm's structured finance team and builds on its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) offering in London.
Dasha, who was previously at Paul Hastings, advises arrangers, investment managers, issuers and corporate service providers on a range of structured finance work, with a particular focus on CLO transactions.
WBD has appointed Jonny Williams as a partner and head of the firm's national financial services team.
Jonny, who will be based across both WBD's London and Edinburgh offices, joins from Lloyds Banking Group where since 2012, he has held several Leadership roles, and latterly was Head of Legal, Business and Specialist Banking. Leading a team of 21, Jonny also advised on a wide range of product and lending issues including regulatory matters and regularly acted as deputy to the General Counsel for Retail.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is expanding its corporate practice in Paris with the hire of new Partner Thomas Rabain. Prior to joining WFW, Thomas was Of Counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright in the same city.
TLT has welcomed the return of Andrew Lockerbie, partner, and Sarah Hilton, solicitor, to its growing UK-wide restructuring and insolvency team, based in London.
TLT's restructuring and insolvency team has grown considerably over the last four years, acting for a wide range of businesses on high profile, high value instructions including lenders, retailers and leisure, food and drink operators.