Latham & Watkins received 28 Top 10 rankings and improved its placements in 10 categories across a range of corporate and finance categories in The American Lawyer's 2012 Corporate Scorecard, an annual review ranking law firms that advised on transactions during the previous year.
DLA Piper has advised Samsung Construction & Trading Corporation ("Samsung") on their 15% investment in the Don Valley Power Project ("Project") in Yorkshire which forms part of a $4.8 billion carbon capture and storage ("CCS") project.
Baker & McKenzie has advised Siemens Energy on the acquisition of the Connectors and Measurements Division of Expro Holdings UK, a company specializing in the oil and gas industry, for Euro470 million. The equipment manufactured by Expro forms a crucial part of the power grid that Siemens is currently developing for use on the sea bed at depths of down to 3,000 meters.
Thousands of protesters gathered in a downtown bayfront park on Sunday demanding the arrest of the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in central Florida a month ago.
