Weil advised CCMP Capital Advisors and its portfolio company Milacron, a global plastics industry leader, in connection with Milacron’s acquisition of Mold-Masters, a leading global hot-runner manufacturer, from private equity firm 3i Group and other shareholders. Under the terms of the transaction, Milacron will acquire 100% of Mold-Masters for an enterprise value of C$975 million.
Tags: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP | New YorkWeil Represents PHN on Its IPO
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Polski Holding Nieruchomosci (PHN), a state-owned holding which is one of the largest (in terms of the market value of its real estate portfolio) owners and managers of commercial and residential real estate properties in Poland, as legal counsel on matters of Polish, UK, and US law in relation to its IPO. The IPO was addressed to individual and institutional Polish investors as well as certain foreign institutional investors, including qualified institutional buyers in the United States. The IPO was valued at PLN 238.6 million. Today the shares were introduced to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). This is the first IPO and listing on the WSE in 2013. The State Treasury of the Republic of Poland sold 25% of the Company’s existing share capital.
Tags: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLPKey EPA Civil Enforcement Director Joins McGuireWoods
McGuireWoods today announced that Bernadette Rappold, who was most recently the director of the Special Litigation and Projects Division in the Office of Civil Enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency, has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, where she will become part of the firm’s growing energy and environmental practice.
Tags: McGuireWoods LLPNovak Druce Adds Attorney Marcus T. Hall
Continuing with its plan for strategic growth, Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, the IP super boutique, announced that attorney Marcus T. Hall has joined the firm as a partner. He will practice out of the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices where he will focus on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation.
Tags: Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP | San FranciscoSutherland State and Local Tax Practice Adds COST Vice President/General Counsel and Three Associates
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces that Todd A. Lard is rejoining the firm as a partner in the State and Local Tax (SALT) Practice, and Todd G. Betor, Sahang-Hee Hahn and Saabir S. Kapoor are joining the SALT team as associates.
Tags: Eversheds SutherlandMilbank Advises on Securities Offerings and Financings Totaling $1.6 Billion
Completing an active two-week run of major corporate finance and capital markets activity, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has advised on transactions totaling approximately $1.6 billion for its financial institution clients. Included were two large high-yield offerings, an investment grade offering, and a concurrent leveraged loan transaction.
Tags: Milbank LLP | New YorkSimpson Thacher Represents JPMorgan Chase & Co. in $850 Million Preferred Stock Offering
The Firm represented JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with a public offering of 34,000,000 Depositary Shares, equivalent to $850 million in aggregate amount, each Depositary Share representing a 1/400th interest in a share of perpetual 5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P, of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The underwriters have the right to purchase up to an additional 5,100,000 Depositary Shares at the public offering price within 30 days. The offering closed on February 5, 2013.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkSimpson Thacher Represents First Data in Refinancing
Simpson Thacher represented First Data Corporation (“First Data”) in connection with its Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $785 million aggregate principal amount of 11.25% Senior Notes due 2021. Simpson Thacher also represented First Data in connection with its borrowing of $258 million in aggregate principal amount of incremental term loans due 2018.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkFoley Adds Experienced Sports Labor Attorney Jonathan Israel
Foley announced today that labor and employment attorney Jonathan L. Israel has joined the firm’s Sports Industry Team and Labor & Employment Practice as a partner in the New York office.
Tags: Foley & Lardner LLP | New YorkGreg Young Joins Wick Phillips Team in Austin
Wick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces the addition of Greg Young as a partner in the Austin office, who will also manage the firm’s Central Texas operations. With more than 14 years of experience, Young has handled a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters for clients, including mergers and acquisitions, loan transactions on both the borrower and the lender side, formation and governance of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as venture capital and other private equity transactions.
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