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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the…
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. It wasn’t until around 2.3 billion years ago that oxygen became a permanent fixture in the atmosphere, during a pivotal…
A rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is now plain for the world to see. Tensions were rising last year as the two Gulf monarchies clashed over Yemen, but the underlying animosity spilled out into the open in January, as Saudi…
Baker McKenzie has advised Flowserve, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, on its definitive agreement to acquire Trillium Flow Technologies’ Valves Division (“TVD”), a market leading provider of highly engineered mission-critical valves used in nuclear and traditional power generation, industrial, and critical infrastructure applications for USD 490 million in cash.
The acquisition will expand Flowserve’s reach in both conventional and emerging markets by integrating TVD’s highly specialized valve and actuation product portfolio, differentiated power and nuclear technology, and scalable service offerings. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026.
The cross-border Baker McKenzie Transactional team was led by Partners, John Quattrocchi and Tanner Bodine (Dallas) and Robert Gray (London), and also included Senior Associates, Priya Shah (London) and Theodora Volsky (Dallas).
For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most stop using these drugs as they heal, a considerable number of “opioid-naïve” patients transition into New…
When everyday matter is cooled, it follows a familiar path. A gas becomes a liquid, and with further cooling, that liquid turns into a solid. Quantum matter does not always follow these rules. More than a century ago, scientists discovered that…