• Litigation - United Kingdom

  Court of Appeal re-establishes traditional immunity from suit for foreign states

  A recent Court of Appeal decision sheds light on the basis on which actions against foreign states can be enforced in the English courts. Without a formal submission to the jurisdiction of the English courts, or without some other connection to the United Kingdom, it will be impossible to enforce foreign judgments against overseas states in the English courts.

• Media & Entertainment - USA

  Commercial risks and rewards of the social media phenomenon

  Over the past year there has been much talk of the phenomenon of 'social media'. In broad terms, this means the adoption of social networking tools and digital communications technologies to upload and transmit content to a wide audience. Although these capabilities are by no means new, it is the mass market adoption of these technologies that is driving change.

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• $282 million rights issue

  First Pacific Company Ltd Davis Polk & Wardwell - William F Barron, Eugene C Gregor, James C Lin; Richards Butler LLP
  Syndicate of underwriters

• €2.2 billion acquisition

  EQT III fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg; Clifford Chance LLP - Alan Inglis
  GIC Fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg
  Springer Science+Business Media Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - David Sonter

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