Coudert Brothers - Notable Mandates

Notable Mandates

  • Represented international investors in the 2005 sale of a 93.5% stake in the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, Russia by Orient Express Hotels Ltd. which was to invest $125 million to refurbish the hotel over the next three years. Debt to finance the transaction was provided by the International Finance Corporation.
  • Counseled South Korea-based CJ Entertainment as selling shareholder in the 2004 $933.8 million IPO of Dreamworks Animation on the New York Stock Exchange. CJ Entertainment retained a 5% stake in Dreamworks. Goldman Sachs & Co and JP Morgan Securities Inc acted as underwriters.
  • Legal adviser, through its Sydney branch, to Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners (now CHAMP Private Equity House) in its sale through a A$110 million secondary buy-out for Penrice Soda Products in 2004.
  • Counseled Merck on its sale of its VWR International division to Clayton Dubilier & Rice for $1.68 billion in 2004.
  • Advised the HSBC and BNP Paribas as underwriters in the HK$668 million IPO of the Lianhua Supermarket Holding Co. on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003.
  • Through its Moscow office, the firm represented the Russian Federal Property Fund as selling shareholder in the $750 million sale of stock in Lukoil in 2002.

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