Global law firm White & Case LLP is acting as international counsel to CHAMP Private Equity Pte Ltd on the acquisition by entities associated with CHAMP of a 33.2% stake in Miclyn Express Offshore Limited (“Miclyn”) from Macquarie Capital Group Limited and related processes.

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Latham & Watkins represented PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited, Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical and petroleum refining company, in connection with its inaugural US$1 billion bond offering. The issue comprised of 4.25% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022, representing the largest ever single-tranche US-dollar bond offering by a Thai corporate. The bond also achieved the lowest ever coupon for a Thai 10-year fixed rate US-dollar bond.

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International technology, media and telecoms law firm Olswang has boosted its Technology and Sourcing practice with the arrival of two new partners to its London and Singapore offices this autumn. The move follows the addition of Green Technology and Renewables partner Martin Hammer to the firm’s German team in May.

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Iain Sharp has joined our firm as a partner in the Singapore office. He will practice with the International Arbitration Team and Commercial Litigation Client Service Group.

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Leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announces the opening of an office in Singapore.

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Hogan Lovells has advised independent oil and gas exploration company, Mitra Energy Limited (“Mitra”), on its farmout of a 75% working interest in Service Contract No. 56 (“SC-56”) located in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines to Total E&P Philippines B.V. (“Total”).

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Stamford Law Corporation and Allen & Gledhill LLP are acting as legal advisers to Fraser and Neave, Limited (“F&N”) in the S$8.8 billion proposed takeover of F&N by TCC Assets Limited (“TCC Assets”). TCC Assets announced a mandatory general offer of S$8.88 per F&N share on 13 September 2012 after its shareholding in F&N, together with its concert parties, reached approximately 30.36% of the total issued F&N shares.

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Maples and Calder, the leading international law firm headquartered in the Cayman Islands, today announced the opening of its newest office, situated in Singapore.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP represented the lenders, KEXIM and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, in the US$130 million financing of a 45 MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant on the Wampu River in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The deal was the first power financing under Indonesia’s Fast Track 2 program, and could signal increased bankability for the country’s renewable reserves.

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Mayer Brown JSM today announced that Nathan Dodd has joined the firm as a partner in Singapore. Nathan has more than 13 years’ experience in the Asian legal market, with a particular emphasis on the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. His experience includes major project development transactions in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa and he will be a core member of Mayer Brown’s global Projects group.

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