Represented Master Replicas Inc., a Represent Wyeth as national counsel Obtained a unanimous, final California-based leader in movie prop in hundreds of cases alleging that UNCITRAL arbitration award replicas and pop culture collectibles, Represented the SWE&C the preservative thimerosal, formerly Represented Westbrook Partners, granting relief to Norway-based in the global combination of Master Liquidating Trust (which was used in pediatric vaccines, caused a real estate opportunity fund Telenor in a dispute with its Replicas, Corgi International Ltd. (a formed upon the confirmation of neurological injury in children. After manager investing on behalf of its Russia-based partner (Storm, LLC) Advised Standard Chartered Represented Nomura Holdings, NASDAQ-listed Hong Kong company) the Stone & Webster Inc. joint plan Represented The Dow Chemical a 10-day evidentiary hearing in a funds in the United States, Europe over the validity and impact of a 2004 Bank as arranger on the largest Inc., a global financial services Served as Hong Kong and U.S. and U.K.-based Cards Inc. Orrick also Provided pro bono assistance of liquidation involving 73 entities, Company in obtaining dismissal with Maryland case, Orrick won a Frye and Asia, on multiple transactions in shareholders agreement governing securitization transaction in company headquartered in Tokyo, counsel to ANTA Sports Products Ltd. represented Corgi in a number of to Global Partnerships, a Seattle- having claims asserted against it in prejudice of a putative class action motion to preclude all testimony 2007 totaling in excess of US$1 billion, Represented Lehman Brothers Advised Deutsche Bank on their multibillion US dollar mobile Asia to date, a US$1.29 billion in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of in its HK$3.17 billion (US$405 ORRICK transactions including cross-border based nonprofit organization, excess of US$6 billion), on insurance brought by hundreds of Ivory Coast from plaintiffs’ five expert witnesses including acquisitions, joint ventures, on more than 45 financings, establishing NewLands Financial, communications joint venture securitization of a portfolio of U.S.-based agency-broker Instinet million) initial public offering on the financings with Burdale Financial, to establish a US$8.5 million recovery matters against numerous plantation workers under the Alien and defeated plaintiffs’ motion to financings and refinancings for hotel, refinancings, acquisitions and the first European Credit Derivatives (Kyivstar) based in Ukraine. The award residential mortgage loans Inc., a global provider of electronic Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Coface and the Synergy Group; the microfinance investment fund insurance carriers (including Tort Claims Act, alleging injuries to preclude Wyeth’s experts. Among office, retail, residential and joint ventures of office, industrial, Product Company (CDPC) and the included conditional divestiture of Represented GSR Ventures, a originated by Standard Chartered trading services for institutional Exchange. Jinjiang, Fujian-based spin-off of Corgi Classics to U.K.-based to expand the reach of financial Lloyd’s) and claims against the their reproductive health. The case the thimerosal cases, this is the first development land properties located residential, retail and hotels totaling fourth in the industry. NewLands Storm’s shares in Kyivstar and an China-based venture capital firm, First Bank Korea. The transaction investors, from Silver Lake ANTA sold 600 million new shares, Hornby Hobbies; and the Corgi spin-off services for people living in Saudi Arabian Oil Company and was won at the initial pleading stage court decision evaluating plaintiffs’ in California, Hawaii, Oregon, more than US$4.5 billion in Japan Financial received a triple-A rating anti-suit injunction, and was in its investment in Sierra Solar, received a 2007 “Deal of the Year” Partners, a leading private equity a 25 percent stake, valuing the of a manufacturing facility in China. poverty in Latin America. the Saudi American Bank. without extensive discovery. experts under the Frye standard. Washington, France and Japan. and the United States. from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. confirmed by a U.S. federal court. a California-based solar company. award from Asian-Counsel. firm based in the United States. company at just over US$1.6 billion. AT A Corgi Global SWE&C Westbrook Standard Nomura ANTA Sports Dow Chemical Wyeth Lehman Brothers Deutsche Bank Telenor GSR Ventures GLANCE International Partnerships Liquidating Trust Partners Chartered Bank Holdings, Inc. Products Ltd.
In 2007, clients relied on more than 1,000 Orrick lawyers around the world to help them take advantage of the opportunities and resolve the challenges they faced. What follows is a representative sampling of our work to illustrate how Orrick supported our clients in achieving their most important global business goals.
MAP KEY
Alternative Energy
Emerging Markets
Funding Business Growth
Innovative Finance
MacFarlane Lightspeed NVIDIA CSCDA – Transurban Cooper Société Générale and Coca-Cola SINA Nanya Eiffaime BTA Ipoteka Partners Venture Partners Corporation EnerTech and Fluor Industries, Ltd. ICCREA Banca S.p.A. Hellenic Co. Corporattion Technology Co. Intellectual Property Advised MacFarlane Partners in its Represented Lightspeed Venture Assisted NVIDIA, a leading Represented the California Statewide Represented Australia-based Represented Cooper Industries in Eiffaime (the holding company Assisted Société Générale and Represented Greece-based Coca-Cola Advised Kazakhstani mortgage Advised on the design, drafting Represented Nanya Technology largest transaction to date — a US$10 Partners in its US$10 million Series B designer of high-definition graphics Communities Development Authority Transurban, one of the leading the Chapter 11 case of Federal-Mogul of the management of Eiffage, a ICCREA Banca S.p.A. as joint Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., the company BTA Ipoteka, a subsidiary and implementation of a Corporation in the consolidated billion joint venture development financing in 4Interactive, the parent processors for gaming and (CSCDA) as bond counsel in the international developers and pending in U.S. federal court in listed French construction and arrangers of a CBO transaction largest Coca-Cola bottler in Europe of the second largest bank in multi-jurisdiction equity plan direct purchaser class actions project with Morgan Stanley and JBG company of Web site AskLaila.com, industrial-design applications, private placement of approximately managers of advanced electronic Delaware. Cooper, with the counsel transport concessions group) in involving the transfer of a portfolio and the second largest in the world, Kazakhstan, on the first publicly rated for SINA Corporation, a NASDAQ- alleging price fixing in the DRAM Litigation & Arbitration Companies. MacFarlane Partners, a a search engine and review site for as preferred patent litigation counsel US$161 million in bonds to finance toll roads, and U.S.-based Fluor, one of Orrick, negotiated a plan of its defense against a failed hostile of claims arising out of debt in its €191.5 million (US$280.7 RMBS transaction from Kazakhstan, listed, China-based Internet industry and obtained summary real estate investment management entertainment and services based in on all high-exposure disputes, the EnerTech Regional Biosolids of the world’s largest construction reorganization with Federal-Mogul takeover attempt by Spain-based securities issued by 97 Italian banks million) acquisition of Aqua Vision, valued at US$141.4 million. company with operations in judgment resulting in the dismissal firm, JBG Companies, one of the most Bangalore, India. including a dispute with Microlinc, Project (EnerTech). EnerTech is a contractors, in connection with a and various asbestos constituencies Sacyr Vallehermoso. (banche di credito cooperative). a Russian limited liability company Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, of claims against Nanya. active real estate developers in a patent dispute with Scanner renewable energy company founded US$1.9 billion project to design, pursuant to which Cooper would The claims were initially purchased that constructed the largest soft Shanghai, Silicon Valley and Taipei. Acer Inc. Washington, D.C., and a fund Technologies, various third-party in 1992 to research and develop clean construct, operate, finance and toll receive either protection from by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. and then drink production plant in Russia. Mergers & Acquisitions managed by Morgan Stanley formed matters involving NVIDIA combustion technologies for high a 14-mile section of the Capital present and future asbestos sold by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. to Representing Nanya Technology a joint venture investment vehicle to technologies and IP issues related moisture wastes. This public private Beltway in Virginia, outside of claims by contributing funds to a an Italian law special purpose Obtained Second Circuit Court Represented Taiwan-based Acer Inc., Corporation in a complex patent develop and redevelop a portfolio of to activities in China. NVIDIA was partnership involved the construction Washington, D.C. court-approved asbestos trust or vehicle named Credico Funding 3 affirmance of the dismissal, without one of the world's leading branded case relating to design features institutional-quality properties named 2007 “Company of the Year” of a biosolids disposal and alternative would receive US$138 million in S.r.l. The transaction was valued leave to amend, of a consolidated personal computer ("PC") and of Dynamic Random Access located in the District of Columbia, by Forbes. energy facility in the city of Rialto, The landmark transaction included settlement of its claims against at €1.2 billion. securities class action complaint notebook vendors, in its US$710 Memory (DRAM) semiconductors, Maryland and Virginia. The 93 California to create an effective and the first use of tax-exempt private Federal-Mogul. The plan was filed in U.S. Federal Court against million acquisition of NYSE-listed including the closely watched Real Estate development properties on 42 cost-saving waste management activity bond financing for a opposed by various insurers and SINA Corporation, effectively ending Gateway, Inc., one of the world's top issue of whether the conduct of separate sites include residential, Provided NVIDIA with a 12 country option for nearby counties and cities. transportation facility in the U.S. others and resulted in a six-day a set of shareholder lawsuits filed 10 PC companies, and its acquisition the patent holder (Rambus) before office, retail and hotel properties, review of a planned revision to the and the second greenfield toll contested confirmation hearing. against the company in 2005. of Packard Bell BV, a leading a DRAM standards body amounted 60 percent of which are located near leave of absence clauses in the road project in the U.S. in the last The plan was confirmed by the European PC vendor. Orrick's advice to fraud and antitrust violations, a Metro stop. This transaction company’s equity compensation 10 years that includes a private court in November 2007. included assisting Acer in the merger thereby rendering its patents Business Globalization received the 2007 “Land Deal of the and bonus programs. equity component. control procedure in its acquisition of unenforceable. Year” award from the Washington, Packard Bell BV. The acquisitions D.C. Business Journal. solidify Acer's position as the world's Providing a four-phased data privacy No. 3 three branded PC and No. 2 project involving the identification branded notebook vendor, with more Cross-Border Matter of NVIDIA’s data compliance than US$15 billion in revenues. requirements in 11 countries, the The Wall Street Journal noted that the development of data maps of data Acer acquisition of Gateway “marks a flows from the European Union to the new stage in one of the PC industry's United States, compliance process biggest turnaround stories.” and procedures, and privacy policies. Represented Master Replicas Inc., a California-based leader in movie prop replicas and pop culture collectibles, Represented the SWE&C in the global combination of Master Liquidating Trust (which was Replicas, Corgi International Ltd. (a formed upon the confirmation of NASDAQ-listed Hong Kong company) the Stone & Webster Inc. joint plan and U.K.-based Cards Inc. Orrick also Provided pro bono assistance of liquidation involving 73 entities, represented Corgi in a number of to Global Partnerships, a Seattle- having claims asserted against it in ORRICK transactions including cross-border based nonprofit organization, excess of US$6 billion), on insurance financings with Burdale Financial, to establish a US$8.5 million recovery matters against numerous Coface and the Synergy Group; the microfinance investment fund insurance carriers (including spin-off of Corgi Classics to U.K.-based to expand the reach of financial Lloyd’s) and claims against the Hornby Hobbies; and the Corgi spin-off services for people living in Saudi Arabian Oil Company and of a manufacturing facility in China. poverty in Latin America. the Saudi American Bank. AT A Corgi Global SWE&C GLANCE International Partnerships Liquidating Trust
In 2007, clients relied on more than 1,000 Orrick lawyers around the world to help them take advantage of the opportunities and resolve the challenges they faced. What follows is a representative sampling of our work to illustrate how Orrick supported our clients in achieving their most important global business goals.
MAP KEY
Alternative Energy
Emerging Markets
Funding Business Growth
Innovative Finance
MacFarlane Lightspeed NVIDIA Partners Venture Partners Corporation Intellectual Property Advised MacFarlane Partners in its Represented Lightspeed Venture Assisted NVIDIA, a leading largest transaction to date — a US$10 Partners in its US$10 million Series B designer of high-definition graphics billion joint venture development financing in 4Interactive, the parent processors for gaming and project with Morgan Stanley and JBG company of Web site AskLaila.com, industrial-design applications, Litigation & Arbitration Companies. MacFarlane Partners, a a search engine and review site for as preferred patent litigation counsel real estate investment management entertainment and services based in on all high-exposure disputes, firm, JBG Companies, one of the most Bangalore, India. including a dispute with Microlinc, active real estate developers in a patent dispute with Scanner Washington, D.C., and a fund Technologies, various third-party Mergers & Acquisitions managed by Morgan Stanley formed matters involving NVIDIA a joint venture investment vehicle to technologies and IP issues related develop and redevelop a portfolio of to activities in China. NVIDIA was institutional-quality properties named 2007 “Company of the Year” located in the District of Columbia, by Forbes. Maryland and Virginia. The 93 Real Estate development properties on 42 separate sites include residential, Provided NVIDIA with a 12 country office, retail and hotel properties, review of a planned revision to the 60 percent of which are located near leave of absence clauses in the a Metro stop. This transaction company’s equity compensation Business Globalization received the 2007 “Land Deal of the and bonus programs. Year” award from the Washington, D.C. Business Journal. Providing a four-phased data privacy project involving the identification Cross-Border Matter of NVIDIA’s data compliance requirements in 11 countries, the development of data maps of data flows from the European Union to the United States, compliance process and procedures, and privacy policies. Represent Wyeth as national counsel Obtained a unanimous, final in hundreds of cases alleging that UNCITRAL arbitration award the preservative thimerosal, formerly Represented Westbrook Partners, granting relief to Norway-based used in pediatric vaccines, caused a real estate opportunity fund Telenor in a dispute with its neurological injury in children. After manager investing on behalf of its Russia-based partner (Storm, LLC) Advised Standard Chartered Represented Nomura Holdings, Represented The Dow Chemical a 10-day evidentiary hearing in a funds in the United States, Europe over the validity and impact of a 2004 Bank as arranger on the largest Inc., a global financial services Served as Hong Kong and U.S. Company in obtaining dismissal with Maryland case, Orrick won a Frye and Asia, on multiple transactions in shareholders agreement governing securitization transaction in company headquartered in Tokyo, counsel to ANTA Sports Products Ltd. prejudice of a putative class action motion to preclude all testimony 2007 totaling in excess of US$1 billion, Represented Lehman Brothers Advised Deutsche Bank on their multibillion US dollar mobile Asia to date, a US$1.29 billion in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of in its HK$3.17 billion (US$405 brought by hundreds of Ivory Coast from plaintiffs’ five expert witnesses including acquisitions, joint ventures, on more than 45 financings, establishing NewLands Financial, communications joint venture securitization of a portfolio of U.S.-based agency-broker Instinet million) initial public offering on the plantation workers under the Alien and defeated plaintiffs’ motion to financings and refinancings for hotel, refinancings, acquisitions and the first European Credit Derivatives (Kyivstar) based in Ukraine. The award residential mortgage loans Inc., a global provider of electronic Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Tort Claims Act, alleging injuries to preclude Wyeth’s experts. Among office, retail, residential and joint ventures of office, industrial, Product Company (CDPC) and the included conditional divestiture of Represented GSR Ventures, a originated by Standard Chartered trading services for institutional Exchange. Jinjiang, Fujian-based their reproductive health. The case the thimerosal cases, this is the first development land properties located residential, retail and hotels totaling fourth in the industry. NewLands Storm’s shares in Kyivstar and an China-based venture capital firm, First Bank Korea. The transaction investors, from Silver Lake ANTA sold 600 million new shares, was won at the initial pleading stage court decision evaluating plaintiffs’ in California, Hawaii, Oregon, more than US$4.5 billion in Japan Financial received a triple-A rating anti-suit injunction, and was in its investment in Sierra Solar, received a 2007 “Deal of the Year” Partners, a leading private equity a 25 percent stake, valuing the without extensive discovery. experts under the Frye standard. Washington, France and Japan. and the United States. from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. confirmed by a U.S. federal court. a California-based solar company. award from Asian-Counsel. firm based in the United States. company at just over US$1.6 billion.
Westbrook Standard Nomura ANTA Sports Dow Chemical Wyeth Partners Lehman Brothers Deutsche Bank Telenor GSR Ventures Chartered Bank Holdings, Inc. Products Ltd.
CSCDA – Transurban Cooper Société Générale and Coca-Cola SINA Nanya EnerTech and Fluor Industries, Ltd. Eiffaime ICCREA Banca S.p.A. Hellenic Co. BTA Ipoteka Corporattion Technology Co.
Represented the California Statewide Represented Australia-based Represented Cooper Industries in Eiffaime (the holding company Assisted Société Générale and Represented Greece-based Coca-Cola Advised Kazakhstani mortgage Advised on the design, drafting Represented Nanya Technology Communities Development Authority Transurban, one of the leading the Chapter 11 case of Federal-Mogul of the management of Eiffage, a ICCREA Banca S.p.A. as joint Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., the company BTA Ipoteka, a subsidiary and implementation of a Corporation in the consolidated (CSCDA) as bond counsel in the international developers and pending in U.S. federal court in listed French construction and arrangers of a CBO transaction largest Coca-Cola bottler in Europe of the second largest bank in multi-jurisdiction equity plan direct purchaser class actions private placement of approximately managers of advanced electronic Delaware. Cooper, with the counsel transport concessions group) in involving the transfer of a portfolio and the second largest in the world, Kazakhstan, on the first publicly rated for SINA Corporation, a NASDAQ- alleging price fixing in the DRAM US$161 million in bonds to finance toll roads, and U.S.-based Fluor, one of Orrick, negotiated a plan of its defense against a failed hostile of claims arising out of debt in its €191.5 million (US$280.7 RMBS transaction from Kazakhstan, listed, China-based Internet industry and obtained summary the EnerTech Regional Biosolids of the world’s largest construction reorganization with Federal-Mogul takeover attempt by Spain-based securities issued by 97 Italian banks million) acquisition of Aqua Vision, valued at US$141.4 million. company with operations in judgment resulting in the dismissal Project (EnerTech). EnerTech is a contractors, in connection with a and various asbestos constituencies Sacyr Vallehermoso. (banche di credito cooperative). a Russian limited liability company Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, of claims against Nanya. renewable energy company founded US$1.9 billion project to design, pursuant to which Cooper would The claims were initially purchased that constructed the largest soft Shanghai, Silicon Valley and Taipei. Acer Inc. in 1992 to research and develop clean construct, operate, finance and toll receive either protection from by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. and then drink production plant in Russia. combustion technologies for high a 14-mile section of the Capital present and future asbestos sold by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. to Representing Nanya Technology moisture wastes. This public private Beltway in Virginia, outside of claims by contributing funds to a an Italian law special purpose Obtained Second Circuit Court Represented Taiwan-based Acer Inc., Corporation in a complex patent partnership involved the construction Washington, D.C. court-approved asbestos trust or vehicle named Credico Funding 3 affirmance of the dismissal, without one of the world's leading branded case relating to design features of a biosolids disposal and alternative would receive US$138 million in S.r.l. The transaction was valued leave to amend, of a consolidated personal computer ("PC") and of Dynamic Random Access energy facility in the city of Rialto, The landmark transaction included settlement of its claims against at €1.2 billion. securities class action complaint notebook vendors, in its US$710 Memory (DRAM) semiconductors, California to create an effective and the first use of tax-exempt private Federal-Mogul. The plan was filed in U.S. Federal Court against million acquisition of NYSE-listed including the closely watched cost-saving waste management activity bond financing for a opposed by various insurers and SINA Corporation, effectively ending Gateway, Inc., one of the world's top issue of whether the conduct of option for nearby counties and cities. transportation facility in the U.S. others and resulted in a six-day a set of shareholder lawsuits filed 10 PC companies, and its acquisition the patent holder (Rambus) before and the second greenfield toll contested confirmation hearing. against the company in 2005. of Packard Bell BV, a leading a DRAM standards body amounted road project in the U.S. in the last The plan was confirmed by the European PC vendor. Orrick's advice to fraud and antitrust violations, 10 years that includes a private court in November 2007. included assisting Acer in the merger thereby rendering its patents equity component. control procedure in its acquisition of unenforceable. Packard Bell BV. The acquisitions solidify Acer's position as the world's No. 3 three branded PC and No. 2 branded notebook vendor, with more than US$15 billion in revenues. The Wall Street Journal noted that the Acer acquisition of Gateway “marks a new stage in one of the PC industry's biggest turnaround stories.” Represent Wyeth as national counsel Obtained a unanimous, final in hundreds of cases alleging that UNCITRAL arbitration award the preservative thimerosal, formerly Represented Westbrook Partners, granting relief to Norway-based used in pediatric vaccines, caused a real estate opportunity fund Telenor in a dispute with its neurological injury in children. After manager investing on behalf of its Russia-based partner (Storm, LLC) Advised Standard Chartered Represented Nomura Holdings, Represented The Dow Chemical a 10-day evidentiary hearing in a funds in the United States, Europe over the validity and impact of a 2004 Bank as arranger on the largest Inc., a global financial services Served as Hong Kong and U.S. Company in obtaining dismissal with Maryland case, Orrick won a Frye and Asia, on multiple transactions in shareholders agreement governing securitization transaction in company headquartered in Tokyo, counsel to ANTA Sports Products Ltd. prejudice of a putative class action motion to preclude all testimony 2007 totaling in excess of US$1 billion, Represented Lehman Brothers Advised Deutsche Bank on their multibillion US dollar mobile Asia to date, a US$1.29 billion in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of in its HK$3.17 billion (US$405 brought by hundreds of Ivory Coast from plaintiffs’ five expert witnesses including acquisitions, joint ventures, on more than 45 financings, establishing NewLands Financial, communications joint venture securitization of a portfolio of U.S.-based agency-broker Instinet million) initial public offering on the plantation workers under the Alien and defeated plaintiffs’ motion to financings and refinancings for hotel, refinancings, acquisitions and the first European Credit Derivatives (Kyivstar) based in Ukraine. The award residential mortgage loans Inc., a global provider of electronic Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Tort Claims Act, alleging injuries to preclude Wyeth’s experts. Among office, retail, residential and joint ventures of office, industrial, Product Company (CDPC) and the included conditional divestiture of Represented GSR Ventures, a originated by Standard Chartered trading services for institutional Exchange. Jinjiang, Fujian-based their reproductive health. The case the thimerosal cases, this is the first development land properties located residential, retail and hotels totaling fourth in the industry. NewLands Storm’s shares in Kyivstar and an China-based venture capital firm, First Bank Korea. The transaction investors, from Silver Lake ANTA sold 600 million new shares, was won at the initial pleading stage court decision evaluating plaintiffs’ in California, Hawaii, Oregon, more than US$4.5 billion in Japan Financial received a triple-A rating anti-suit injunction, and was in its investment in Sierra Solar, received a 2007 “Deal of the Year” Partners, a leading private equity a 25 percent stake, valuing the without extensive discovery. experts under the Frye standard. Washington, France and Japan. and the United States. from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. confirmed by a U.S. federal court. a California-based solar company. award from Asian-Counsel. firm based in the United States. company at just over US$1.6 billion.
Westbrook Standard Nomura ANTA Sports Dow Chemical Wyeth Partners Lehman Brothers Deutsche Bank Telenor GSR Ventures Chartered Bank Holdings, Inc. Products Ltd.
CSCDA – Transurban Cooper Société Générale and Coca-Cola SINA Nanya EnerTech and Fluor Industries, Ltd. Eiffaime ICCREA Banca S.p.A. Hellenic Co. BTA Ipoteka Corporattion Technology Co.
Represented the California Statewide Represented Australia-based Represented Cooper Industries in Eiffaime (the holding company Assisted Société Générale and Represented Greece-based Coca-Cola Advised Kazakhstani mortgage Advised on the design, drafting Represented Nanya Technology Communities Development Authority Transurban, one of the leading the Chapter 11 case of Federal-Mogul of the management of Eiffage, a ICCREA Banca S.p.A. as joint Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., the company BTA Ipoteka, a subsidiary and implementation of a Corporation in the consolidated (CSCDA) as bond counsel in the international developers and pending in U.S. federal court in listed French construction and arrangers of a CBO transaction largest Coca-Cola bottler in Europe of the second largest bank in multi-jurisdiction equity plan direct purchaser class actions private placement of approximately managers of advanced electronic Delaware. Cooper, with the counsel transport concessions group) in involving the transfer of a portfolio and the second largest in the world, Kazakhstan, on the first publicly rated for SINA Corporation, a NASDAQ- alleging price fixing in the DRAM US$161 million in bonds to finance toll roads, and U.S.-based Fluor, one of Orrick, negotiated a plan of its defense against a failed hostile of claims arising out of debt in its €191.5 million (US$280.7 RMBS transaction from Kazakhstan, listed, China-based Internet industry and obtained summary the EnerTech Regional Biosolids of the world’s largest construction reorganization with Federal-Mogul takeover attempt by Spain-based securities issued by 97 Italian banks million) acquisition of Aqua Vision, valued at US$141.4 million. company with operations in judgment resulting in the dismissal Project (EnerTech). EnerTech is a contractors, in connection with a and various asbestos constituencies Sacyr Vallehermoso. (banche di credito cooperative). a Russian limited liability company Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, of claims against Nanya. renewable energy company founded US$1.9 billion project to design, pursuant to which Cooper would The claims were initially purchased that constructed the largest soft Shanghai, Silicon Valley and Taipei. Acer Inc. in 1992 to research and develop clean construct, operate, finance and toll receive either protection from by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. and then drink production plant in Russia. combustion technologies for high a 14-mile section of the Capital present and future asbestos sold by ICCREA Banca S.p.A. to Representing Nanya Technology moisture wastes. This public private Beltway in Virginia, outside of claims by contributing funds to a an Italian law special purpose Obtained Second Circuit Court Represented Taiwan-based Acer Inc., Corporation in a complex patent partnership involved the construction Washington, D.C. court-approved asbestos trust or vehicle named Credico Funding 3 affirmance of the dismissal, without one of the world's leading branded case relating to design features of a biosolids disposal and alternative would receive US$138 million in S.r.l. The transaction was valued leave to amend, of a consolidated personal computer ("PC") and of Dynamic Random Access energy facility in the city of Rialto, The landmark transaction included settlement of its claims against at €1.2 billion. securities class action complaint notebook vendors, in its US$710 Memory (DRAM) semiconductors, California to create an effective and the first use of tax-exempt private Federal-Mogul. The plan was filed in U.S. Federal Court against million acquisition of NYSE-listed including the closely watched cost-saving waste management activity bond financing for a opposed by various insurers and SINA Corporation, effectively ending Gateway, Inc., one of the world's top issue of whether the conduct of option for nearby counties and cities. transportation facility in the U.S. others and resulted in a six-day a set of shareholder lawsuits filed 10 PC companies, and its acquisition the patent holder (Rambus) before and the second greenfield toll contested confirmation hearing. against the company in 2005. of Packard Bell BV, a leading a DRAM standards body amounted road project in the U.S. in the last The plan was confirmed by the European PC vendor. Orrick's advice to fraud and antitrust violations, 10 years that includes a private court in November 2007. included assisting Acer in the merger thereby rendering its patents equity component. control procedure in its acquisition of unenforceable. Packard Bell BV. The acquisitions solidify Acer's position as the world's No. 3 three branded PC and No. 2 branded notebook vendor, with more than US$15 billion in revenues. The Wall Street Journal noted that the Acer acquisition of Gateway “marks a new stage in one of the PC industry's biggest turnaround stories.” Asian-Counsel “Deal of the Year” 2007: Our structured finance team received a 2007 “Deal of the Year” IA
S award from Asian-Counsel for our representation of Standard Chartered Bank as arranger of the US$1.29
A billion seventh RMBS for Standard Chartered First Bank Korea.
First H-Share Conversion: Our China team advised on the first conversion of an H-Share company from the GEM to the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Growth in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai: Our China offices added nine partners and more than 70 lawyers and staff, continuing to build on our 2006 recognition by Asian Legal Business Fast 30 as “one of the Asia-Pacific region’s fastest growing and most dynamic law firms.”
“Korea-focused expert”: Our Korea practice grew with the addition of partners, of counsel and associates in our Hong Kong office, recognized by the Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2007–2008) as “a strong Korea practice across different jurisdictions,” including a partner who is “highly regarded as a Korea-focused expert.”
Vietnam Experience: Our Hong Kong office added a senior Vietnam specialist with more than 10 years experience working in Vietnam.
Asia Real Estate Leadership: Our global real estate practice secured its leadership position in Asia with the transfer of our former Tokyo managing partner to Hong Kong to lead our real estate practice across Asia.
One of China’s Largest IP Practices: Our China IP practice added IP partners, of counsels, associates and consultants to solidify our position as one of the largest IP practices in Mainland China of all foreign law firms.
Expanding Dispute Resolution Capabilities: Our global litigation practice added a team of litigators to our Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific dispute resolution practice, including a partner recognized in the PLC Dispute Resolution Handbook as “one of the region’s top litigators.”
Tokyo Office Anniversary: Our Tokyo office, one of the largest foreign law firm offices in Tokyo, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2007, and we are recognized in Chambers Asia (2007–2008) for our “lawyers’ creative solutions for complicated issues.”
“Managing Partner of the Year”: In 2007, Orrick’s managing partner for Asia was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Asian Legal Business.
“Securitisation Law Firm of the Year”: Our structured finance team received the “Securitisation Law Firm of PE the Year” award at Opal’s 2007 European CDO Summit. O R
U First European CDPC: Our structured finance team represented Deutsche Bank in establishing the first European E Credit Derivatives Product Company, NewLands Financial, which is also the fourth CDPC in the world.
First Kazakhstan RMBS: Our structured finance team represented BTA Ipoteka, a mortgage company based in Kazakhstan, in the first publicly rated RMBS transaction from Kazakhstan, a transaction in which more than half of the 10,274 mortgage loans cover properties located in Almaty.
Europe’s Largest Coca-Cola Bottler: Our M&A team represented Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Europe, in its acquisition of a Russian limited liability company, Aqua Vision,
7 that constructed the largest soft drink production facility in Russia.
Expansion in France, Italy, Russia and the U.K.: Forty-seven lawyers joined our Europe offices in 2007, further 0 expanding our practices in corporate finance, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and tax. 0
“A-List”: Orrick debuted on The American Lawyer’s “A-List” of “elite law firms,” consisting of only 20 firms S CA 2 I (10 percent of the Am Law 200). ER
T “Corporate Scorecard” Rankings: 2007 was the third consecutive year Orrick was ranked as one of The M American Lawyer’s leading law firms in its annual “Corporate Scorecard” report, focusing on the firms with
H A the most active corporate finance and capital markets practices. N N T R I
O Project Finance “Deal of the Year”: Our project finance team received the 2007 “Project Finance Team E N
of the Year” and “Deal of the Year” awards from IFLR for our work on the US$608 million acquisition of a 99-year concession for the operation and maintenance of the Pocahontas Parkway toll road in Virginia.
SIV-Lite Restructuring “Deal of the Year”: Our structured finance team received Risk magazine’s “Deal of
M the Year” award for our work on the restructuring of an SIV-Lite involving U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities, noted to be the only successful restructuring of a SIV or SIV-Lite at the time. CK P
I No. 1 Ranked Bond Counsel: Bond Buyer and Thomson Reuters ranked our public finance team as No. 1 bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel in the United States in the area of municipal bonds. O
R 2007 Diversity Awards: Orrick received the “Large Law Firm of the Year for Diversity” award from Morgan
L Stanley, the “Firm of the Year for Diversity” award from the North American South Asian Bar Association, and a 100% rating in the 2007–2008 Corporate Equality Index Annual Survey from the Human Rights Campaign. R We are also listed as one of the “Best Law Firms for Women” by Working Mother magazine. E Global Corporate Solutions: Orrick launched a Global Corporate Solutions practice to outsource clients’ global O corporate secretary compliance functions to a dedicated team of Orrick lawyers, compliance specialists and V data clerks supported by a network of legal counsel in more than 100 jurisdictions worldwide. E
T Prominent Lateral Partners: Orrick added a substantial number of preeminent lateral partners to deepen our lead in global practices involving capital markets, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, employment law, intellectual property, white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations and securities litigation. D A