Laurence Rogers, Neville Wright and Tom Calnan joined McDermott’s real estate practice in the London office. Mr. Rogers focuses his practice on real estate finance, Mr. Wright advises clients on corporate tax for the finance and real estate sectors, and Mr. Calnan focuses his practice on commercial real estate.
Alexander Horn has joined McGuireWoods’ private equity industry team as a partner in Raleigh as the firm’s corporate practice continues growing in North Carolina’s vibrant Research Triangle region and enhances its highly ranked deal capabilities nationwide.
Shearman & Sterling launches an office in Houston with six partners – its second Texas office following its Austin office opening in March. The Houston-based team significantly expands the firm’s existing global energy capabilities with a focus on oil and gas transactions and projects, in complement to the firm’s existing highly regarded global energy group, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America.
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Audry X. Casusol has joined the firm as a partner in its Tax and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice in the New York office. Formerly a partner with Greenberg Traurig LLP, Ms. Casusol represents public and private companies and private equity clients based in the United States and around the world in their executive compensation and governance matters.
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has officially opened for business in Dublin, reinforcing its position as leading adviser in the asset management and investment funds sector. The opening follows recent news of the appointments of Fionán Breathnach, who will lead the Dublin office, and two additional partners, Elaine Keane and Niamh Ryan.
Mayer Brown advised the Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners on the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka’s offering of new senior unsecured fixed rate notes, comprising of US$1.25 billion 5.75% notes due 2023 and US$1.25 billion 6.75% notes due 2028. The Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners were Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank. This was Sri Lanka’s largest offshore bond offering to date, and mark Sri Lanka’s twelfth US dollar benchmark offering in the international bond markets since 2007.
Davis Polk advised the joint global coordinators in the Hong Kong initial public offering of Ping An Healthcare and Technology Company Limited. The gross proceeds from the offering amounted to approximately HK$8.77 billion ($1.12 billion) prior to the exercise of the over-allotment option.
Lawyers from the Greenberg Traurig Warsaw office advised Madison International Realty in connection with the acquisition of 50% of the Warsaw Spire A office building and a joint-venture agreement with Ghelamco Group.
The Warsaw Spire A office building is a 220-meter tower with a hyperboloid glass facade. The Warsaw Spire retail-office complex also includes two auxiliary buildings, Warsaw Spire B, together with the futuristic Genesis restaurant building, and Warsaw Spire C.
In another landmark Asia capital markets transaction, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy advised Credit Suisse, as underwriter, on a US$310 million concurrent equity placement and convertible bond offering by a leading Vietnamese real estate developer, No Va Land Investment Group Corporation (“Novaland”), marking the first ever capital raise for a Vietnamese company in a concurrent equity placement and convertible bond offering. The concurrent offering was also the first equity-linked bond issuance out of Vietnam since 2012.
The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised the Kathrein Group on the sale of its subsidiary Katek GmbH to the investment holding PRIMEPULSE SE. The sale of Katek GmbH is part of the Kathrein Group’s restructuring and its focus on core competencies in the field of high-frequency technology.