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SJ Berwin LLP is a leading full-service corporate and commercial law firm with 140 partners and 362 lawyers across Europe.
Established in 1982, the firm was created and thrives as a leading-edge legal services business, focusing on the international market place. Our clients are sophisticated buyers of legal services whom we advise on a comprehensive range of services including Banking, Commercial, Corporate Finance, Employment & Pensions, EU & Competition, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Litigation, Real Estate, Reconstruction & Insolvency and Tax.
Our aim is to be recognised as a dynamic, versatile and successful business which sets the standards to which others aspire. We take pride in our ability to devise innovative and commercially viable solutions to complex problems. We try to understand our clients’ businesses and are always willing to challenge orthodox views on their behalf.
SJ Berwin LLP has been named ‘UK Law Firm of the Year’ by Legal Week.
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With more than 1,300 lawyers in seven U.S. and six European cities, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is among the 10 largest law practices in the world. This 2002 combination of two of the leading law firms in the U.S. and U.K. has been described by Legal Week as "The most successful transatlantic merger to date." Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw serves clients on both sides of the Atlantic, including 65 of the Fortune 100 companies, most of the FTSE 100, and one out of every three U.S. banks. They offer consulting offices in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as an independent correspondent relationship with Jáuregui, Navarrete y Nader, S.C., one of Mexico City's most respected law firms.
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is a combination of two limited liability partnerships, each named Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, one established in Illinois, USA, and one incorporated in England.
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A full-service index provider, Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes also is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX indexes, the world’s leading pan-European indexes, and provides the Dow Jones Titans family, which includes blue-chip indexes for various countries, regions and sectors. Together with Wilshire Associates, Dow Jones Indexes provides the Dow Jones Wilshire index family, which features the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 and is expanding to include a complete global family of country, region, sector, cap-range and style indexes. In addition to equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes offers a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund, credit derivative and commodity markets. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Daily values of Dow Jones indexes are distributed via major real-time and end-of-day market-data vendors, are published in financial publications and on financial Web sites, and can be downloaded from the Dow Jones Indexes Web site at www.djindexes.com.
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RREEF is the real estate and infrastructure investment management arm of Deutsche Asset Management, the global investment management business of Deutsche Bank. RREEF acquires and manages investments in commercial and residential property, real estate securities, and infrastructure investments including energy and transportation distribution assets on behalf of its institutional and private clients worldwide. Its product offering is global and comprehensive, including core, value-enhanced and high yield property investments as well as investments in publicly traded real estate securities, and infrastructure investments including transportation and energy distribution assets. Headquartered in New York, RREEF employs more than 2,000 real estate professionals in 17 cities around the world. The combined group has €53 billion in assets under management worldwide as of 31st December 2005.
REEF Infrastructure, a part of RREEF, invests in stable, income producing assets such as utilities, transport, forestry, and social infrastructure such as healthcare and education. Formerly part of DB Capital Partners in Australia, the business was expanded globally in April 2005 under the RREEF brand and is headquartered in New York. As of 31-December-2005 RREEF Infrastructure had €1.3 billion of assets under management.
With its roots as one of Australia's leading infrastructure specialist, RREEF Infrastructure has been involved in landmark developments such as Sydney's Cross City Tunnel and the Melbourne Airport privatisation and invests on behalf of a wide range of clients including superannuation funds and a number of well-known Australian institutions. Recent acquisitions include New Zealand timber land and a gas line in the United Kingdom.
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