In one of its largest lateral team acquisitions to date, Dechert LLP has added a 29-strong team of one of the premier U.S. product liability and mass torts litigation groups, including three additional new partners, nine counsel and six associates. The new lawyers join market-leaders Sheila Birnbaum, Mark Cheffo and Douglas Fleming, III, who started at Dechert in May.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Fleishman has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.
Mr. Fleishman advises clients on the energy regulatory and compliance aspects of transactions and other energy market activities. In particular, he defends energy and financial industry participants and individuals in energy markets against charges of market manipulation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and other regulatory bodies.
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance is strengthening its German Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice with the hire of arbitration partner, Moritz Keller. The experienced litigator and specialist in international commercial and investment arbitration will join Clifford Chance as a partner and work from the firm's Frankfurt office.
KWM has advised BlueScope on entering a power purchase agreement (PPA) with ESCO Pacific for the 133MWac Finley Solar Farm, the fifth major corporate PPA which KWM has recently advised on and which has been announced to the market.
ESCO Pacific will invest $250 million dollars into the project, which will comprise of approximately 500,000 solar panels – generating energy for approximately 60,000 homes.
Taylor Wessing has advised Walstead, one of the leading European commercial printing groups, on its acquisition of LSC Communications' European printing business based in Poland.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) advised Genera Group (“Genera”), one of Italy’s leading energy efficiency holding companies, on its agreement with Pandora Green S.p.A., an Italian company specialising in providing integrated energy efficiency and cost reduction solutions worldwide.
Ashurst advised an international banking syndicate led by UniCredit Bank AG (UniCredit) and ABN Amro Bank N.V. (ABN Amro) on the granting of a € 1bn loan to Scout24 Group (Scout24). The new credit facility is intended for the refinancing of an existing syndicated financing of € 800m granted by the end of 2016 as well as for the financing of future acquisitions of the group, an operator of online marketplaces across Europe such as ImmobilienScout24 and AutoScout24.
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has advised longstanding client King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP) on a pre-let to Facebook, which will take leases of 611,000 sq ft of office space at King’s Cross. Around 15% of the total commercial space at King’s Cross (4m sq ft) will be let in a single deal, marking the move as one of the biggest commercial deals in London this decade.
Charles Russell Speechlys has advised Stonegate Pub Company on its high profile acquisition of national cocktail bar chain Be At One.
A team from Clifford Chance has advised 11 Russian and international banks on an US$825 million facility for Uralkali, one of the world’s largest potash producers. The facility will be used to refinance existing loans and for general corporate purposes.