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| 12 November 2009 |  | Etappensieg für Gazprom: Moncrief muss fast zwei Millionen Euro Prozesskostensicherheit leisten
News Release - Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Germany
12. November 2009. Im Rechtsstreit mit der US-Gesellschaft Moncrief Oil International, Inc. hat Gazprom einen weiteren Etappensieg erzielt. Das Landgericht Berlin hat der von Moncrief eigens zur Prozessführung gegründeten Moncrief Oil International (Deutschland) GmbH durch Zwischenurteil aufgegeben, für die Prozesskosten von Gazprom eine Sicherheit in Höhe von 1.813.985,58 Euro zu leisten. |
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| 12 November 2009 | | Next success for Gazprom: Moncrief has to post almost two million Euro as security for costs of legal proceedings
News Release - Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Germany
November 12, 2009 – In the litigation initiated by U.S. company Moncrief International, Inc. Gazprom has gained another victory. By interim judgment, the Regional Court of Berlin requested Moncrief Oil International (Deutschland) GmbH, a company formed by Moncrief solely for the purpose of litigation in Germany, to post security in the amount of 1,813,985.58 Euro for the Gazprom litigation costs. |
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| 2 September 2009 | | Mayer Brown supports UBS in tax settlement with the US
News Release - Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Germany
2 September 2009 - UBS recently reached a settlement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that resolved the U.S. legal proceeding in which the IRS attempted to compel UBS (in violation of Swiss financial privacy law) to reveal the identity and account information of an estimated 52,000 U.S. clients. The settlement was accompanied by a parallel agreement between Switzerland and the United States that provided for information on UBS accounts to be shared pursuant to an IRS request under the existing Swiss-U.S. |
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| 14 July 2009 | | Mayer Brown advises HR consultant Hewitt Associates on the acquisition of shares of BodeHewitt in Germany
News Release - Corporate & Securities, Germany
14 July 2009 - International law firm Mayer Brown advised Hewitt Associates on the acqui-sition of shares of BodeHewitt AG & Co KG from Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (HVB). |
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| 5 May 2009 | | Mayer Brown advises Arminius Real Estate Opportunity Fund on acquisition of commercial real estate loans
News Release - Banking & Finance, Real Estate, Tax Transactions & Consulting, Germany, United Kingdom / England & Wales
5 May 2009 - International law firm Mayer Brown advised Arminius Real Estate Opportunity Fund, L.P. ("Arminius") on acquisition of performing commercial real estate loans totaling approximately 148 million Euro from a major international commercial bank in London. The loans are exclusively secured with German real estates, among others large hotels in east-ern Germany. Mayer Brown advised Arminius with an international team of lawyers from the Frankfurt and London offices. |
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| 6 April 2009 | | Paper manufacturer WEPA as a European Stock Corporation - Mayer Brown advises in the restructuring into an SE-Holding
News Release - Germany
6 April 2009 - April 6, 2009 - International law firm Mayer Brown LLP advised WEPA Papierfabrik P. Krengel GmbH & Co. KG in Arnsberg on the corporate restructuring into an SE-Holding structure. |
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| 6 March 2009 | | Mayer Brown assists UBS AG with US investigations
News Release - Worldwide
6 March 2009 - The investigations of the US Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission against UBS AG came to a conclusion when the bank reached a
settlement with the US authorities on 18 February 2009. |
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| 6 March 2009 | | Mayer Brown advises Rothenberger on the acquisition of the majority of shares of a.a.a.
News Release - Corporate & Securities, United Kingdom / England & Wales
6 March 2009 - International law firm Mayer Brown advised Rothenberger on the acquisition of the majority of shares of a.a.a.. On 4 March 2009 Rothenberger 4xS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH and Günter Rothenberger Beteiligungen GmbH entered into an agreement with TS Metropolis Holdings S.á.r.l., Luxembourg, and its subsidiaries to purchase approximately 90 percent of the shares of the listed company a.a.a. akteingesellschaft allgemeine Anlageverwal-tung, Frankfurt. The price is in the price range 13 to 13.5 million Euro. |
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| 21 February 2009 | | Mayer Brown advises Lone Star on financing of a structured credit portfolio of IKB
News Release - Germany
21 January 2009 - International law firm Mayer Brown advised Lone Star on financing of a structured credit portfolio. IKB has sold structured credit products from its portfolio in the amount of nominal 2.6 billion Euro to a special purpose entity, among these primarily the so-called Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) and Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS). |
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| 6 January 2009 | | Mayer Brown advises on the first German-Belgian consumer loan securitisation
News Release - Banking & Finance, Tax Transactions & Consulting, European Union
6 January 2008 - Credit Europe Bank N.V. has converted €208 million of German and Belgian consumer loans into asset-backed securities and thus closed the first German-Belgian consumer loan securitisation. Leading international law firm Mayer Brown advised London-based Standard Chartered Bank which acted as arranger during the transaction. |
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