King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. in the company’s binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of BP p.l.c., covering 50 percent of the production capacity from the initial two trains of Freeport LNG’s natural gas liquefaction and LNG (liquefied natural gas) loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.
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Fisher & Phillips LLP announces that two of Philadelphia’s most experienced and prominent labor and employment attorneys have joined the firm’s Philadelphia office as partners effective February 12, 2013. Formerly with Jackson Lewis LLP in Philadelphia, Rick Grimaldi and Lori Armstrong Halber bring decades of experience in labor and employment law to the national law firm.
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Baker & McKenzie’s Turkish member firm, Esin Attorney Partnership, has hired a leading infrastructure and projects lawyer and an in-house counsel from one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates to further enhance the firm’s Energy, Mining & Infrastructure (EMI) practice.
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Shearman & Sterling advised Jefferies Finance LLC, as administrative agent, collateral agent, sole lead arranger and sole lead bookrunner, in connection with a $360 million financing, comprised of a $250 million first lien financing and $110 million second lien financing, related to the acquisition of SESAC Holdings, Inc. by Rizvi Traverse Management.
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Roetzel is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Orlando office with the addition of Jason S. Miller as a partner in the Intellectual Property group. Previously, he was of counsel with Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A., and co-chair of that firm’s Intellectual Property Group.
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Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that lobbyist and attorney Doug Heron has re-joined the firm as a Partner in the State Government Relations practice. Mr. Heron has almost 15 years of combined experience in North Carolina and in Washington, D.C.
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Herbert Smith Freehills confirmed today that it has recruited to its partnership Rod Fletcher, one of the UK’s leading business crime and investigations specialists.
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HWL Ebsworth has announced that Matthew Rowe has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial practice group at the Norwest office.
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The International law firm Clifford Chance advised the mandated lead arrangers and the lenders on all the aspects of Nareva Holding and International Power-GDF Suez’ project to build the Tarfaya wind farm (in the South of Morocco) with a capacity of 300 MW, from the bid phase in 2009 until the financial close in December 2012. The Clifford Chance team was composed of Mustapha Mourahib, Partner, Benjamin de Blegiers, Counsel, and Ouns Lemseffer, Associate. The project called upon a bank financing up to MAD 4 billion, provided by a lenders consortium composed of Attijariwafa Bank, Banque Centrale Populaire and Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur.
Tags: Clifford Chance LLPNational law firm Shoosmiths has appointed partner Tracey Hemingway to its pensions team, together with documentation specialist Steve Phillips.They join hot on the heels of partner Paul Carney.
