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Chemicals

Litigation

  • Successful prosecution of claims at trial involving a major specialty chemical company had not suffered a material adverse effect that would have given rise to a termination of the merger; this negotiation is known as one of the most creative antitrust covenants in recent history

  • Represented a global manufacturer of titanium dioxide in a matter pertaining to the ongoing titanium dioxide antitrust litigation; the case was an opt-out case from the direct purchaser class action case and alleged our client and others conspired to fix the prices of titanium dioxide sold in the U.S. during a certain time period; secured summary judgment

  • Assisted global manufacturer and distributor of chemicals to conduct an internal investigation related to potential allegations of corruption at a joint venture in India; received declination letters from both the SEC and DOJ

  • Represent Wanhua Chemical (America) Co., Ltd. and Wanhua Chemical Group Ltd. in civil class action litigation alleging a conspiracy to restrict production and supply of chemicals MDI and TDI. V&E also represented Wanhua in connection with a grand jury subpoena, which led to DOJ closing its investigation without taking any action

  • Venator Materials PLC in its $522 million initial public offering of ordinary shares by a selling shareholder and separation from Huntsman Corporation

  • Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp.

  • The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic on the development, financing, and construction of two polymer units in the Sumgayit Industrial Park, Baku, Azerbaijan, with a capacity of 150 KTPA (polypropylene) and 100 KTPA (high-density polyethylene)

  • A large international energy company in the formation of a 50/50 joint venture and the development of an ethylene cracker with an estimated capacity of 544,000 metric tons/yr (1.2 billion lbs/year); the project is anticipated to have a capital cost of approximately $1.5 billion

  • Privately owned, private equity-backed fertilizer manufacturer in the development of a world-scale, hydrogen-based ammonia plant in the Gulf Coast region of Texas (ongoing)

  • Eurochem on the construction and financing of an approximately $1 billion dollar ammonia complex to be located within the existing Phosphorit industrial complex at Kingisepp in the Russian Federation

  • Dyno Nobel Inc. in all aspects of the development of an $850 million anhydrous ammonia plant in Louisiana, one of the first ammonia plants to be built in the United States in twenty years

  • Oman Oil Company in the $2.4 billion acquisition of the Oxea Group, the world’s largest supplier of Oxo chemical products, from Advent International

  • Westlake Chemical Partners LP in its $311 million initial public offering of common units

  • LyondellBasell Industries N.V. in its $1 billion investment grade offering of senior notes