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Transaction Reports Cablevisión Paraguay

Millicom International Cellular acquires

Cablevisión Paraguay Legal advisors to Millicom International Cellular:

Millicom International Cellular acquires Cablevisión Paraguay

Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced recently that it had received all necessary documentation to complete the transaction to acquire 100% of Cablevision Paraguay. Millicom will now assume management control of Cablevision Paraguay and will consolidate the operation’s results from October 1, 2012. The results for Cablevision Paraguay will be reported as part of the South America region.

Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa. It also operates various combinations of fixed telephony, cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central America. The Group’s mobile operations have a combined population under license of approximately 270 million people.

Parquet & Asociados (Parquet & Associates) was involved as one of the head legal

consultants in the purchase and subsequent merger of Cablevisión by Millicom International Cellular, the largest S&M transaction in the telecommunications field in Paraguayan history.

Mr. Javier Parquet, one of the senior associates of Parquet & Asociados, led the operation; he stated;

“Our Firm had to participate, oversee, and approve the negotiation as well as the contract drafting process, as well as undertake the subsequent approval by the Paraguayan administrative authority of the SPA and license assignment executed between Cablevision and Millicom. Our Firm’s counsel in the early stages of the transaction ensured the operation’s compliance with Paraguayan statutory requirements in the telecommunications field, making a swift, peaceful approval of the transaction possible”

IPD Group MSCI unit

acquires IPD Group for $125M

Legal advisors to IPD Group:

MSCI unit acquires IPD Group for $125M

MSCI Inc. a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, recently announced that its subsidiary, MSCI Limited, had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IPD Group Limited, a holding company for the IPD Group, for a purchase price of approximately $125 million1 (£78 million), funded through existing cash. IPD is a leading provider of real estate investment

benchmarking,

performance performance

Legal advisors to MSCI:

analysis, market indices, risk man- agement tools and market research to the owners, institutional investors, managers, lenders on, and occupiers of, real estate. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions for transactions of this nature.

Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO, MSCI Inc. expressed that; “The acquisition of IPD is part of our core strategy to provide investment decision support tools to

institutional investors across all major asset classes. IPD’s real estate industry knowledge and strong capabilities complement MSCI’s expertise in providing investment tools for the equities, fixed income, hedge fund, and energy and commodities markets”

MSCI expects its global footprint, strong relationships with institutional investors, technological and operational expertise to enhance IPD’s existing products and services. The addition of IPD will enable MSCI to expand its multi-asset class offering by integrating private real estate assets into its models, and by adding real estate benchmarks to its family of market leading indices.

Davis Polk & Wardell LLP and Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal advisers to MSCI. Lazard & Co., Limited was lead adviser to IPD Group Limited, supported by Tom Van Oss and Portico Capital, and Linklaters acted as legal advisers, supported by Addis Law.

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