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Clifford Chance LLP advised Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s largest supplier of liquefied natural gas, on its agreement to buy LNG assets from Repsol SA for $4.4 billion in cash to expand in Latin America and Spain. Linklaters LLP, with a team led by Madrid corporate partners Alejandro Ortiz and Lara Hemzaoui and London projects partner Matthew Hagopian, advised energy company Repsol.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, after imploding last year in the largest law firm bankruptcy, won confirmation of its plan to set up trusts to liquidate its remaining assets.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, the law firm that advised Los Angeles Dodgers LLC on restructuring, filed for bankruptcy after its chairman was ousted and almost all partners quit as creditors began suing for unpaid bills.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP raised $125 million in a bond offering to refinance existing bank debt, a rare action by a U.S. law firm, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
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Peter P. Mullen, who served as executive partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as it thrived during the wave of corporate takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, has died. He was 83.
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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised Verizon Communications Inc., which said it will buy Hughes Telematics Inc. for $612 million in cash, vaulting the telephone company deeper into the automotive-technology market.
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Fred Gander, a Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP partner who helped manage the firm, has left for KPMG LLP.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP sought Chapter 11 protection yesterday, listing debt of $245 million and assets of $193 million in a filing U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
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Greenberg Traurig LLP said yesterday that it has opened an office in Warsaw with a team of more than 50 lawyers formerly with Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. The firm will operate as Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak in Poland. Jaroslaw Grzesiak, former managing partner of Dewey’s Warsaw office, serves as the managing partner and Lejb Fogelman as the senior partner.
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Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, said an arbitration panel ruled Kuwait must pay $2.16 billion in damages because it canceled a 2008 agreement to buy a stake in the company’s plastics business.
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