Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP today announced that corporate attorney George M. Silfen has joined the New York office as a partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. Mr. Silfen primarily advises clients on regulatory and compliance matters associated with investment companies, and investment advisory, brokerage, securities custody and transfer agent services.
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The Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley office has grown with the addition of Mr. Yan Zhang as its first corporate partner.
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Morrison & Foerster is representing Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. in its US$512 million initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. Fosun Pharma is the third largest Hong Kong IPO deal this year, and the first significant successful new listing since July. UBS AG, China International Capital Corp., J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank AG acted as the joint global coordinators in the deal.
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Lindsey D. G. Dates and Daniel J. Lawler have joined the firm’s Chicago office as partners in the Litigation and Healthcare Departments, respectively. Previously, Dates worked in the Chicago office of Jones Day and Lawler worked in the Chicago office of K&L Gates LLP.
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Davis Polk is advising Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in connection with the combination with Pearson plc of their trade-book publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group, respectively. Bertelsmann will own 53% and Pearson will own 47% of the combined company, which will be named Penguin Random House. The closing of the transaction is scheduled to take place in the second half of 2013, following regulatory approval.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell | New YorkDavis Polk is advising Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as lead arrangers in connection with a commitment to provide a $500 million senior secured facility for Riverbed Technology, Inc. The facility would be available to Riverbed to finance its purchase of OPNET Technologies, Inc.
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A team of European and U.S. lawyers from global law firm K&L Gates LLP is advising OYSTAR Holding GmbH on the sale of its shares in OYSTAR North America Inc., with factories in Davenport, Iowa, and Covington, Kentucky, to the Italian Coesia Group. Packaging machines company OYSTAR is a portfolio company of Berlin-based financial investor Odewald & Compagnie, and was acquired by Odewald from IWKA in 2007. The current transaction took place in the run-up to an international auction and is subject to antitrust approvals.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised UBS AG, China International Capital Corporation, J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, Agricultural Bank of China International and Haitong International as underwriters on the HK$3.97 billion (US$509 million) initial public offering (IPO) of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd (“Fosun Pharma”) on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Rule 144A/Regulation S global offering on 30 October, 2012. The deal marks one of the largest IPOs in the world’s pharmaceutical industry since June 2011 and one of the few recent significant new listings in Hong Kong since July this year.
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Bayer HealthCare LLC has signed a merger agreement to acquire Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., a leading company offering vitamins and nutritional supplements in the United States and other countries, for approximately $1.2 billion.
Tags: Latham & Watkins LLP | Los AngelesThe Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
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