• Commercial Property - Canada

  Lender Non-disturbance Agreements - Pitfalls and Traps

  Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP

  Although there are several reasons why a tenant and mortgagee would want to terminate the lease if the mortgagee went into possession, tenants and mortgagees usually prefer to play it safe and obtain the protections afforded by a non-disturbance agreement. This update looks at some of the more significant issues to consider when negotiating non-disturbance agreements.

• Corporate Immigration - United Kingdom

  New Application Refusal Rules and Re-entry Bans

  Fragomen LLP

  The government has announced additional changes as part of its ongoing comprehensive immigration and border security reform programme. These include rules for refusal of entry and cancellation of stay for foreign nationals who make false representations in their immigration applications, and lengthy bans from re-entering the United Kingdom following immigration violations.

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• £300 million rights issue

  Bradford & Bingley plc Herbert Smith LLP - Michael Walter, Adam Levitt, Will Pearce, Derek Hill, Paul Ellerman, Adam Wells;
  Citibank Inc Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - William Lawes;
  UBS AG Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - William Lawes

• £905 million IPO

  Fresnillo plc Galicia y Robles SC - Rafael Robles Miaja; Linklaters LLP - Charles Jacobs, Stuart Bedford, Ian Bowler, Jennifer Schneck;
  JPMorgan Cazenove Ltd Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - Julian Makin

• $14.5 billion joint venture

  Sprint Nextel Corporation King & Spalding LLP - Stephen Wiseman, E William Bates II, John K Sweet, Richard T Marooney Jr, Paul A Straus, Angela L Batterson, Robert G Woodward, Donald S Kohla, Daniel King, Albert H Conrad; Jones Day ;
  Clearwire Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Julie Weston; Kirkland & Ellis LLP ;
  Comcast Corporation Davis Polk & Wardwell - David L Caplan, Carole Schiffman, Marc O Williams, Avishai Shachar, Kyoko Takahashi Lin;
  Syndicate of investors

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