A team of Akin Gump attorneys is advising the Special Committee of Chinese pork and produce processor Zhongpin Inc. in its definitive agreement and plan to merge that will take the company private.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Hong Kong
The Firm represented underwriters, led by BofA Merrill Lynch and RBS, in a public offering of $350 million principal amount of 4.875% Notes due 2022 of Avnet, Inc.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Los AngelesSimpson Thacher represented The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”) in the establishment of the Carlyle Energy Mezzanine Opportunities Fund, L.P. (“CEMOF”), which primarily targets investments in projects and companies in the power generation and energy sectors requiring capital of $20 million to $150 million per transaction. Carlyle has announced that CEMOF raised approximately $1.38 billion of total commitments.
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BakerHostetler announced today that Joel C. Griswold and Melissa A. Siebert have joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as Partners in its Chicago office. Both come to BakerHostetler from K&L Gates LLP, where Griswold served as chair of the Wage and Hour Subcommittee for the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. They are the most recent high-profile additions to BakerHostetler’s nationally recognized Employment and Labor Group and continue the firm’s growth in major markets.
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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch as sole book-running manager and BMO Capital Markets, CIBC, HSBC, RBC Capital Markets, Scotiabank, and TD Securities as co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 by Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd., a Canadian company. Proceeds from the offering and a concurrent rights offering will be used to refinance existing indebtedness.
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Oil and gas specialist HFW has advised Serbian state-owned gas company JP Srbijagas on loans to be provided by Deutsche Bank and Amsterdam Trade Bank, part of the Alfa Group. The loans are being provided following a formal tender run by the company to secure a total of €190m in loans from domestic and international banks.
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SNR Denton recently advised San Diego based Pulse Electronics (NYSE:PULS) in securing a debt and equity investment of approximately $102.7 million with certain affiliates of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (NYSE: OAK), a leading global investment management firm with approximately $81 billion under management.
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Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Statoil ASA of $2.0 billion principal amount of notes guaranteed by its operating subsidiary, Statoil Petroleum AS. The offering consisted of $600 million principal amount of 1.20% notes due 2018, $1.1 billion principal amount of 2.45% notes due 2023 and a $300 million principal amount reopening of its 4.25% notes due 2041.
Tags: Davis Polk & WardwellDavis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on an SEC-registered public debt offering by Airgas, Inc. of $250 million principal amount of its 2.9% notes due 2022.
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Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Labor & Employment partner Charles Thompson and senior counsel Nicole Bolson to the firm’s San Francisco office, bolstering the bench strength of the firm’s National Trial Team and robust West Coast presence. Both attorneys previously practiced at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, where Thompson was in charge of the San Francisco group and a vice chair of the firm’s L&E practice. He is also very active in the San Francisco legal community as a member of PLUS, the San Francisco Hotel Counsel and the IADC.
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