John Nielsen has been hired as a new special counsel in Sydney by Baker McKenzie. John recently worked in-house for a top Australian private equity firm before joining the firm. Private equity and more general private corporate deals are the main areas of concentration for his practice.

Canaccord Genuity Limited, as the only bookrunner, and Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, London Branch, and Panmure Liberum Limited, as joint co-managers, received advice from Norton Rose Fulbright about Yellow Cake’s successful US$175 million financing campaign.

Regarding the senior secured long-term loans given to Thu Dau Mot Water Joint Stock Company (TDM) in connection with the Bau Bang Water Treatment Plant in Vietnam, Mayer Brown has advised the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as lenders.

The UK-based energy company Prax Exploration & Production plc (under Administration) has agreed to sell its whole UK North Sea upstream oil and gas business to Serica Energy plc, with Hogan Lovells serving as lead legal counsel.

A former Perkins Coie LLP partner has joined Holland & Hart LLP to expand the firm’s ability to manage business litigation and provide high-net-worth individuals with a range of legal advice.

This past week, the federal government and peer firms added Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Greenberg Traurig, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Crowell & Moring, and Perkins Coie to their Washington, D.C. headquarters. Two HHS lawyers joined Crowell & Moring’s expanding health care unit. In the meantime, Perkins…

The chairman of the firm stated that Charlotte has a “broader emphasis” and serves clients whose requirements have “grown much more national” since 2019, therefore Akerman is moving its growth plan in North Carolina away from Winston-Salem and toward Charlotte.

As the Am Law 100 firm seeks to capitalize on a business that is expanding in its South Florida base but is contracting nationwide, Akerman has reorganized the leadership of its hospitality group.

By the end of the year, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP plans to close its Geneva office, which has been there for ten years, the firm said on Friday.

Bryan Cave announced this month that it has appointed a lawyer from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP as the new white-collar crime and compliance lead for the Paris-based law practice.