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O'Melveny & Myers LLP

9 TEMASEK BOULEVARD, #09-01 SUNTEC TOWER TWO, SINGAPORE 038989, SINGAPORE

Washington DC, Tokyo, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, San Francisco and 8 more

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Banking and finance

O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s ‘tremendously talented and hardworking’ practice head Bertie Mehigan advised Credit Suisse on a $250m refinancing secured term loan facility to Finspace. Key clients include ADM Capital, Asia Pulp & Paper Company and Baring Private Equity Asia.

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Capital markets

Within Foreign firms, tier 4

O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s ‘excellent lead counsel’ David Makarechian and Andrew Hutton, who joined from Paul Hastings LLP in Hong Kong, represented Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, SBI Capital and ICICI Securities in Power Grid Corporation of India’s $1.7bn equity shares offering and listing on the Indian stock exchanges.

Corporate and M&A

Within Foreign firms, O'Melveny & Myers LLP is a third tier firm,

Practice head David Makarechian at O’Melveny & Myers LLP impresses clients as an ‘excellent lead counsel in complex acquisitions’. Joel Hogarth and Siew Kam Boon represented shareholders on the divestment an Indonesian white sugar refinery to Singapore listed commodities trader Wilmar International.

Projects and energy

Within Foreign firms, tier 4

O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Joel Hogarth advised Russell Mining & Minerals in its acquisition of a 60% interest in the King-King Copper Gold project situated in the Philippines. Bertie Mehigan is ‘tremendously talented and hardworking’.

Restructuring and insolvency

Within Foreign firms, O'Melveny & Myers LLP is a second tier firm,

O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Bertie Mehigan, Joel Hogarth, Damien Coles and Ashley Bell acted as sole international counsel to Mobile-8 Telecom Finance Company BV and PT Mobile-8 Telecom Tbk regarding the restructuring of $100m guaranteed secured notes.

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