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This Week's Deals

A round-up of transactions involving Bay Area lawyers and companies.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Baker Botts, Norton Rose Fulbright on $1.75B Angola Deal

Baker Botts represents Houston's Cobalt International Energy in its pending $1.75 billion sale of blocks offshore Angola to Sonangol, Angola's national oil company.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Former Big Law Lawyers Targeted in Benjamin Wey Fraud Case

Two lawyers with Am Law 200 pedigrees, including a former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer and the former head of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's China practice, have been ensnared in the latest troubles of Chinese stock promoter Ben Wey.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Emera, Looking South, Subs Skadden With Davis Polk

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised Canadian utility Emera on its acquisition of New England power assets two years ago, but this week the firm took the lead for Tampa-based Teco Energy on the Florida power generator's $10.4 billion sale to Emera.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Skadden, Linklaters on $5.3B Mitsui Sumitomo-Amlin Deal

The Tokyo-based company is buying the London-based reinsurer as the Japanese insurance industry continues an overseas shopping spree.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Hopes for Development as Epicenter of Urban Cool May be a Mirage

Some brokers say people in 2025 will see Wynwood as desirable as New York's Williamsburg or SoHo neighborhoods are now, and praise the investors who scooped up property at upwards of $1,000 per square foot for their foresight.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

A Big Deal: Lenders Once Again Getting Creative to Land Projects

In Miami Beach, a New York developer achieved what might be the holy grail of real estate finance: nabbing a loan backed by a land assemblage for more than the land cost.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Big Spenders Are on The Prowl for Prime South Florida Real Estate

Big spenders, like TIAA-CREF, have already poured more than $3.4 billion into the market this year alone and plan to spend much more.
12 minute read

The American Lawyer

Report: DOJ Probing Irish 'Bad Bank' Deal Involving Brown Rudnick

The Boston-based Am Law 100 firm, already caught up in an Irish investigation into its role advising private-equity giant Cerberus Capital Management on its purchase of a troubled Northern Ireland property portfolio last year, must now deal with another inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Holland Trio Secure $95 Million Loan from Ocean Bank

Holland & Knight attorneys Joe Dewey, Elena Otero and Brett Holland helped arrange a $95 million construction loan for Melo Group's 53-story Aria on the Bay.
5 minute read

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