- Serving as lead counsel in the $1.5 billion sale of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s engineered products division, which required coordination of counsel in 12 foreign countries.
- Representing a variety of U.S. companies, both public and privately held, in the establishment of manufacturing, distribution and/or administrative headquarters operations in the European Union.
- Representing a public company in the acquisition of its distributor in Mexico.
- Leading a multijurisdictional team of lawyers in France, Germany and Australia in connection with the purchase of the worldwide electronic metals business of a French multinational company by a global specialty chemicals company.
- Representing a multijurisdictional shareholder group in the sale of the world’s largest polar expedition cruise business to a multinational public company.
- Working closely with counsel in 17 countries on four continents to spearhead and coordinate the implementation of a public company’s corporate restructuring of its foreign subsidiaries.
- Representing a public company in the establishment of a joint venture in Mexico, 50 percent owned by our client.
- Assisting a public company in the sale to another U.S. company of one of its divisions, including the stock it held as a 49-percent joint venture partner in a Korean company.
- Working closely with counsel in Germany, Mexico, the Czech Republic and Sweden to assist a privately held company in the sale to a U.S. public company of substantially all of its assets, including the stock of its wholly owned subsidiaries in those countries.
- Representing The State Bank of India in its investment management business in the United States, including representing it in its registration as a U.S. investment adviser.
- Representing Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, a Bermuda company publicly traded in the United States, in a private investment by an affiliate of MSD Capital, L.P. and in a variety of corporate transactions and its U.S. securities laws matters.
- Representing the Inter-American Development Bank in a number of private-sector project finance transactions in various Latin American jurisdictions, including the $500 million Ecovias Dos Imigrantes toll road project in the state of Sao Paulo, the largest transportation project financing in Latin America.
- Representing the Municipality of Quito in its $600 million financing and construction of a new international airport.
- Representing the Regal-Aircoa Group of Companies in the financing of a hotel acquisition in Hong Kong, and the issuance of, and subsequent self-tender for, its SEC-registered debt securities.
- Representing Salguero Group, a Madrid-based investor group, in its acquisition of a 25 percent interest in the Conrad International Punta del Este Resort and Casino, the largest resort and casino complex in the Southern Cone.
- Representing a plastic injection molding company in its acquisition of Mexican and Canadian subsidiaries.
- Representing Latin American and European clients in the United States and abroad in connection with a myriad of securities and corporate matters, including transnational and off-shore financings and corporate transactions.
- Representing overseas public companies, particularly those headquartered in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in connection with acquisitions of businesses in the United States and other countries.
- Representing a specialty chemical company in its acquisition of a United Kingdom-based hydroxy monomer and conventional contact lens business from the world’s largest chemical company in a transaction mandated by the European Union.
- Representing a European travel company in franchise disclosures and registrations throughout the United States.
- Representing a U.S.-based franchisor for chemical distribution systems in connection with the sale of franchises and a master franchise in Mexico.
- Representing a U.S.-based franchisor in the preparation of disclosure documents and identification of disclosure exemptions for sales of franchises under the laws of various provinces in Canada.
- Serving as lead U.S. counsel in the $95 million divestiture of the German-based pharmaceutical packaging division of a public company.
- Serving as lead counsel in the acquisition of a fire equipment training company with significant locations in Europe.
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