King & Wood Mallesons has advised DBP Group on its A$155 million, seven-year bank debt facility, provided by a syndicate of Japanese banks.
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White-Collar Crime Lawyer Marion Bachrach Joins T&K in New York
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Marion Bachrach as a Partner in the Firm’s Trial and Government practices in New York.
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Kirkland Represents Bain Capital in Agreement to Acquire Atento from Telefónica SA
Kirkland & Ellis represents Bain Capital Partners LLC in a definitive agreement announced today to acquire Atento, the call-center division of telecommunications company Telefónica SA. The transaction is valued at approximately €1 billion ($1.34 billion).
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McDermott Adds to International Private Client Group
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Astrid Owen has joined as a partner in its Private Client Practice Group, based in the Firm’s London office. Astrid Owen provides the Firm with added depth and experience handling international trust, tax and wealth transfer matters on an international scale.
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Fasken Martineau Advises the Waymade Group, and Its Founders Dr Vijay and Mr Bhikhu Patel on Their Disposal of the Amdipharm Business to Leading Private Equity Firm Cinven
The London office of Fasken Martineau, an international business law and litigation firm, announced today that it advised the Waymade Group and Dr Vijay Patel and Mr Bhikhu Patel on their £367 million disposal of the Amdipharm Group of companies to European private equity firm, Cinven.
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Pharma Patent Litigators Nick Cerrito and Eric Stops Join Quinn Emanuel
F. Dominic “Nick” Cerrito and Eric Stops, former intellectual property lawyers at Jones Day, joined the firm’s New York office as partners in June. Both concentrate on intellectual property disputes in the pharmaceutical industry, including Hatch-Waxman litigation and client counseling in the navigation of FDA laws.
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Davis Polk – PPL Capital Funding, Inc. $400 Million Senior Notes Offering
Davis Polk advised PPL Capital Funding, Inc. on its registered offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 3.50% senior notes due 2022, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by PPL Corporation (PPL). Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as representatives of the several underwriters for the offering. PPL Capital Funding and PPL expect the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to be invested in or loaned to subsidiaries of PPL, which will use the funds to repay short-term debt obligations, including commercial paper borrowings, and for general corporate purposes.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell | New YorkDavis Polk Advises Mexichem on $1.25 Billion Equity Offering
Davis Polk advised Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. in connection with its offering of 260,000,000 single series class II common shares in the amount of $1.25 billion. The shares were sold in an offering exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.
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Simmons & Simmons Advises MTN Group on US$284m Mobile Network Tower Sale
Simmons & Simmons has advised long-standing client MTN Group Limited (“MTN”) on the sale of mobile network towers by its subsidiaries, MTN Côte d’Ivoire (“MTN CI”) and MTN Cameroon (“MTN CMR”). MTN has agreed to sell up to 931 towers in Côte d’Ivoire for US$141m and up to 827 towers in Cameroon for US$143m to IHS Holding Limited (“IHS”).
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Cleary Gottlieb Opens Office in Seoul
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced today that it has opened a foreign legal consultant office in Seoul, Korea, following the receipt of necessary approvals from the Korean regulatory authorities. The office is the firm’s sixteenth office worldwide and its third in East Asia and follows the opening of the firm’s office in Abu Dhabi last month.
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