Shearman & Sterling represented Banco Internacional del Perú S.A.A.- Interbank, a Peruvian bank, acting through its Panamanian branch in connection with its 144A/Regulation S offering of US$250 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.750% Senior Notes Due 2020. This offering is a reopening of its previous offering of 5.750% Senior Notes due 2020 issued on October 7, 2010.

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Shearman & Sterling represented the syndicate of banks led by UBS Securities LLC as sole financial advisor and led by global coordinators Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Santander Investment Securities Inc. and UBS Securities LLC, underwriting the US$4.1 billion initial public offering of American depositary shares represented by shares of Series B common stock of Grupo Financiero Santander México, S.A.B. de C.V., the Mexican subsidiary of Spain’s Banco Santander S.A. Grupo Financiero Santander México, S.A.B. de C.V. dual listed its shares with the New York Stock Exchange and the Mexican Stock Exchange.

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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Corporate partner John Franchini together with Global Project Finance partner William Bice, acted as counsel to Bosque Power Company, in the $432 million sale, plus adjustments, of its 800-megawatt central Texas power plant to Calpine Corporation, the largest U.S. independent power generator.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Waypoint Homes, a leading acquirer of single-family properties, in a $245 million financing facility from Citibank, which is a uniquely structured financing vehicle for multiple single family homes.

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Morgan Lewis announced today that Richard Morris, a leading exchange traded fund (“ETF”) lawyer, will join the firm as a Partner in its Investment Management and Securities Industry practice, resident in the firm’s New York office.

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Simpson Thacher represented DJO Finance LLC (the “Company”) and DJO Finance Corporation, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of DJO Global, Inc., in Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings of $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.75% Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2018 and $440.0 million aggregate principal amount of 9.875% Senior Notes due 2018. The net proceeds of the issuances are being used to refinance the issuers’ $465.0 million aggregate principal amount of 10.875% Senior Notes due 2014, pay related fees and expenses, and repay $38.0 million of borrowings under the Company’s senior secured revolving credit facility. The offerings closed on October 1, 2012.

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP recently secured a significant victory in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for Belgian bank KBC, a longtime Orrick client. The plaintiff, Lazare Kaplan International, the largest diamond manufacturing and distribution company in the United States, filed a US$1.5 billion RICO lawsuit against KBC and its subsidiary, Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB), in December 2011. The suit was based on the alleged theft of US$135 million in diamonds from Lazare’s Belgian and other foreign subsidiaries.

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Chadbourne & Parke represented LS Power in connection with the construction financing of its 170-megawatt Centinela Solar Energy Project, a crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar project located on more than 1,600 acres of land near El Centro, California.

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP represented RLJ Acquisition, Inc., a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) sponsored by Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), in a transaction that closed Wednesday, October 3, to acquire two film distribution companies: Image Entertainment, Inc. and Acorn Media Group, Inc. The combined companies will operate as “RLJ Entertainment, Inc.” It is expected that the shares of RLJ Entertainment common stock will trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The deal will combine two major home entertainment movie libraries. Image has the exclusive rights to 3,700 DVD titles, including the Criterion Collection, and the digital download rights for 2,200 video programs. Acorn Media has the rights to many British television programs and films.

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Davis Polk is advising Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company Limited (MUL) in connection with its approximately ¥100 billion ($1.3 billion) acquisition of all of the equity of JSA International Holdings, L.P. (d/b/a Jackson Square Aviation) from a group of funds affiliated with Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and certain management sellers. Jackson Square Aviation (JSA) is one of the world’s leading commercial aircraft lessors, with a fleet of 76 next-generation aircraft valued in excess of $4 billion. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2012, pending regulatory approvals.

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