J. Caleb Boggs, III, a lawyer with more than two decades of experience in law, politics and public policy, has joined King & Spalding’s government advocacy and public policy practice as a partner in Washington, D.C. He is expected to concentrate on the financial services industry. Boggs comes to King & Spalding from Blank Rome LLP, where he was a partner.

International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has appointed structured finance specialist David Shearer as a partner in its London structured finance and capital markets practice. David was previously a partner in Allen & Overy’s structured finance group.

Shearman & Sterling has filed suit in the Court of Appeals in Rome on behalf of the Libyan Investment Authority, challenging the seizure by Italian judicial authorities of approximately €1 billion in LIA assets held in Italy (comprising principally its equity stakes in Italian-listed companies UniCredit, Eni and Finmeccanica). This seizure was carried out pursuant to a request from the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which is asserting that the assets in question are the personal property of the Gaddafi family. The LIA is asserting that these assets are now controlled by the Government of Libya on behalf of the Libyan people.

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) announced on April 30, 2012 the formal closing of the acquisition of a 70 per cent share in Polish Polbank EFG S.A. (Polbank) from EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Warsaw and London teams advised RBI on this acquisition. Concurrently, Eurobank EFG and RBI transferred their respective 30% and 70% shareholdings in Polbank to Raiffeisen Bank Polska S.A. (RBPL), RBI’s existing universal bank in Poland. As a consequence of the transaction, RBPL will be owned in 87% by RBI and in 13% by EFG Eurobank.

Shearman & Sterling has expanded its intellectual property transactions capabilities with the arrival of IP lawyer Richard Hsu, who will join the firm as a partner in Palo Alto.

Husch Blackwell represented Duke Energy Renewables in closing a $330 million joint financing arrangement with Sumitomo Corporation of America for two wind farm projects: the 131-megawatt Cimarron II Project in Gray County, Kansas, and the 168-megawatt Ironwood Project in Ford County, Kansas. The deal closed on April 18.

Peter Keel and Norman Lucas have left Clayton Utz to join Maddocks as commercial disputes partners.