Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Philippine telecommunications company Globe on its $1.28 billion sale of 5,709 mobile towers to Frontier Tower Associates Philippines (FTAP) and  Miescor Infrastructure Development Corporation, with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and  Gibson Dunn acting for the buyers.

Prolegis, Herbert Smith Freehills’ Singapore Formal Law Alliance firm, has hired energy and infrastructure expert Adrian Wong as director and head of projects from CMS, where he was a partner.

Herbert Smith, Ashurst, White & Case and Trowers & Hamlins have all played a role in advising on the world’s largest power project financing thus far this year – Abu Dhabi’s US$1.5bn Shuweihat 3 independent power plant (IPP) project. According the Herbert Smith’s lead partner on the deal, Andrew Newberry, the project is a landmark partnership between Japanese and Korean investors in a Middle East energy financing project.

Indonesian law firm Soewito Suhardiman Eddymurthy Kardono (SSEK), Herbert Smith and Norwegian law firm Wikborg Rein have advised on a US$875m project financing deal – Kangean Energy Indonesia’s (KEI) investment into BW Offshore for a floating gas production unit lease in Indonesia.

WongPartnership and Herbert Smith have been voted the best domestic and international law firms to work for in Singapore, according to ALB’s Employer of Choice 2010 survey.