Simmons and LeBoeuf cook up $700m oil deal
Simmons & Simmons and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have taken the lead advisory roles on Shell's sale of an oil refinery in the south of France for $700m (£345m). Simmons took the lead for Shell under corporate partner Paul Exley as the fuels giant moves to sell its Berre l'Etang refinery to petrochemical group Basell. LeBoeuf advised Basell, led by Paris corporate partner Stephen Walters alongside London competition partner Peter Crowther and environmental partners Paul Watchman and Nicholas Rock.
August 09, 2007 at 12:56 PM
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Simmons & Simmons and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have taken the lead advisory roles on Shell's proposed sale of an oil refinery in the south of France for $700m (£345m).
Simmons took the lead for Shell under corporate partner Paul Exley. as the fuels giant moves to sell its Berre l'Etang refinery to petrochemical group Basell.
The mandate marks the latest major deal for Shell on which SImmons has advised, with the top 10 City law firm having also acted on the client's proposed $475m (£233m) sale of the Petit Couronne and Reichstett Vendenheim refineries earlier this month.
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