Deals

• Advised Apple Computers in its high profile dispute brought against it by the Beatles' record label, Apple Corp, over the use of the "Apple" name and logo for the iTunes Music Store
• Advised Anheuser-Busch on the $720 million takeover of Harbin Brewery - the first hostile takeover in China
• Represented CMS Energy in the first of the recent bilateral investment treaty ICSID arbitrations against Argentina, winning on both jurisdiction and merits
• Appointed by Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) to advise on the first ever rail public-private-partnership (PPP) in California, the concession-based $300 million deal to connect San Francisco's Oakland airport to the East Bay area
• Advised Virgin Enterprises on the establishment of a $1 billion mobile telecommunications joint venture with Singapore Telecommunications
• Advised Permira on the joint (with KKR) $2.5 billion leveraged buy-out of the pan-European television and radio operator SBS Broadcasting
• Advised Duke Funding Management on a $2.5 billion transaction involving the issuance of $825 million of securities offered through UBS and an innovative $1.675 billion swap agreement that provided liquidity for the deal