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  • Linklaters is working across from White & Case on a $5.3 billion energy financing in Russia. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) has received financing for the Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project. This is the largest foreign investment in Russia, as well as the largest project finance deal in the country.
  • Mayer Brown has advised the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation on its acquisition of $700 million residential mortgage assets from a Korean commercial bank.
  • In a strong rebuke to industry reforms, the EU is planning "meaningful but targeted" regulation to address conflicts of interest at ratings agencies
  • Dolphin International, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy, has been granted a $1.5 billion credit facility.
  • The US Department of Justice has cleared SABMiller and Molson Coors' joint venture. The brewers' project was said to be "not likely to lessen competition substantially".
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission does not understand the difference between types of swaps. Confused definitions of security-based swaps have encouraged blanket decisions that could renew market turmoil, say lawyers
  • In a letter to the US treasury, the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission has criticised proposals affecting the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US. The US reaction could lead to protectionist stalemate
  • Squire Sanders & Dempsey and Walkers have advised Hits Africa in its $215 million share offering on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Stephen Nelson led the Squires Sanders team from London, while Walkers provided funds advice from its Dubai office.
  • South African firm Cliffe Dekker has announced it will merge with Hofmeyr Herbstein & Gihwala in September. The new firm, which has yet to be named, will comprise 127 directors across Johannesburg and Cape Town. It will retain Cliffe Dekker's association with DLA Piper.
  • Lovells has added two new corporate partners to its Tokyo practice. Rika Beppu and Philip Hyde will join the firm from Simmons & Simmons' Tokyo office. Beppu is an M&A specialist and was the managing partner of Simmons & Simmons' Japanese practice. Hyde, a capital markets specialist, had worked at Clifford Chance as a finance lawyer prior to joining Simmons & Simmons.