Europe
Chadbourne & Parke’s strategically located offices across Eurasia and the Middle East enable our lawyers to provide a wide range of legal services to our local and international clients. We advise on project finance, corporate, capital markets, securities, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, commercial law and regulatory issues, tax, insurance and reinsurance, real estate and international arbitration matters.
Our lawyers have extensive experience advising clients from industry sectors including banking, financial institutions, energy, food & beverage, healthcare, insurance, mining, oil & gas, real estate, telecommunications and construction.
Lawyers work on matters throughout eastern and western Europe, as well as in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Lawyers working with European clients come from many countries, including the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Their international experience, their knowledge of local culture and customs, and their ability to draft and negotiate in several languages, enable them successfully to provide a high quality service to our clients.
Representative Experience
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Largest Private Financing in the Ukrainian Telecommunications Industry
Astelit
$540 million financing for a Ukrainian telecommunications company controlled by a Turkish GSM operator.
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Initial Public Offering
Multimedia Polska S.A.
$269 million global offering, including a public offering to Polish individual and institutional investors and an international offering to selected institutional investors outside of Poland.
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Sale of European Business Division
Newell Rubbermaid Inc.
Advice on antitrust and corporate matters in the sale of certain portions of a home décor business to a manufacturer and marketer of window treatments and furnishings.
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Energy Sector UNCITRAL Arbitration
Major Russian Oil Company
Claims before a UNCITRAL arbitration panel by a Russian oil company against a Polish energy company involving fuel delivery contracts.
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Lernout & Hauspie/Dictaphone Chapter 11
European Bank Group
Claims of $350 million by a European bank group in the bankruptcy of Lernout & Hauspie/Dictaphone, a Belgium-based speech and language technology company.
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