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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

King & Spalding is a Atlanta-based international law firm with over 1100 lawyers across 23 offices. Its Tokyo office was established in 2015.

Focusses / specialisms

The firm is best known for its projects work where it is active in energy, renewable energy and oil and gas mandates. 

Key clients

Key clients of the firm include Mitsui & Co, Marubeni Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Électricité de France, Keppel Capital Holdings, Korea East-West Power Corporation and MODEC.

Research period review: 30th edition (2019/2020)

The firm’s projects team has kept busy in the past 12 months advising on outbound projects including project bonds, IPPs and IWPPs, gas projects, cogeneration projects, infrastructure funds, LNG projects, and offshore wind mandates in Mexico, Brazil, Senegal, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Guam, Myanmar and Vietnam. 

Deal highlights: 30th edition (2019/2020)

-Fujairah 3 IWPP

-Keppel Asia Infrastructure Fund

-MV24 Capital $1.1 billion 6.748% project bond issue

-Sepia MV30 FPSO Project

Client feedback: 30th edition (2019/2020)

Investment funds

“Meeting deadlines and negotiating legal points with counterparties.”

Project development

“Trustworthiness and gets the work done in a timely manner.”

Project finance

“They are very practical and hands-on. They have very smart people.”

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Targeted partner hires in antitrust, funds and finance show how firms are strengthening priority benches while elite rivals supply senior talent
A PE-heavy week of lateral hiring saw firms target senior talent across private funds, M&A and buyouts, with White & Case and Simpson Thacher among the headline movers
Among top hires, Orrick added a Kirkland & Ellis capital markets duo, Paul Weiss brought in NY capital markets partners, while King & Spalding, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Lowenstein Sandler expanded their structured finance and securities benches
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