International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Securities partners Rod Miller and Paul Denaro, acted as counsel to the initial purchasers in a $500 million offering by Tenet Healthcare Corporation (“Tenet”) of its 4.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2020, and a $300 million offering by Tenet of its Senior Unsecured Notes due 2020, pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.

More >>

Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 5,060,000 shares of common stock of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (including 660,000 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $16.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $80.1 million. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint book-running managers, Leerink Swann LLC acted as lead co-manager and Lazard Capital Markets LLC acted as co-manager. KYTHERA’s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “KYTH.”

More >>

Davis Polk, together with Linklaters and Morgan Lewis, is advising the joint administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (“LBIE”) in connection with the settlement in principle of $38 billion in claims between LBIE and Lehman Brothers Inc (“LBI”). The settlement represents a critical milestone in the Lehman Brothers administration and brings the parties closer to unlocking substantial distributions for creditors who hold tens of billions of dollars in claims.

More >>

Pearson plc, the world’s leading learning company, today announced the acquisition of EmbanetCompass, a provider of online learning services for non-profit academic institutions, from an investor group led by private equity and venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures and global education company Knowledge Universe, for $650 million in cash. The transaction is subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino review.

More >>

Cravath represented Crown Castle International Corp. in connection with its US$1.65 billion 144A/Reg. S high-yield senior debt offering. Crown Castle International Corp. is an owner, operator and lessor of shared wireless infrastructure. The transaction closed on October 15, 2012.

More >>

The Firm represented Morgan Stanley as the sole underwriter in a secondary offering of 4,588,840 shares of Class A common stock of SBA Communications Corporation (“SBA”). The shares sold in the offering comprised all of the shares issued by SBA to the selling shareholders in connection with SBA’s acquisition of TowerCo. The offering closed on October 5, 2012 and resulted in gross proceeds to the selling shareholders of $284.2 million.

More >>

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Royal Bank of Canada, as administrative agent and co-collateral agent, and RBC Capital Markets, as joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in a $450 million ABL facility to finance private equity fund Lindsay Goldberg LLC’s joint venture with NuStar Logistics, L.P., a subsidiary of NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE: NS). The joint venture owns and operates refineries located in Paulsboro, New Jersey and Savannah, Georgia, at which it refines crude oil to produce asphalt and certain other refined petroleum products, and engages in the storage, terminaling, transportation and sale of such products.

More >>

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.

More >>

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.

More >>

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.

More >>