Willkie client Ventas, Inc., a leading healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), recently announced that it has priced a public offering of $275 million aggregate principal amount of 3.25% Senior Notes due 2022 at 99.027% of principal amount. The notes are being issued by the company’s operating partnership, Ventas Realty, Limited Partnership, and a wholly owned subsidiary, Ventas Capital Corporation.

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SNR Denton announced today that Kenneth A. Wright Jr. has joined the firm as a partner in its Capital Markets practice. Wright joins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and will reside in SNR Denton’s New York office.

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SNR Denton announced today that Michael R. Barz has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Corporate and Business Transactions practice. Barz has joined SNR Denton from DLA Piper LLP (US).

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Cozen O’Connor, among the 100 largest U.S. law firms, announced today that corporate, business, and securities attorney Andrew M. Ross has joined the firm as a member of the Corporate Practice Group in the New York office. He formerly was a partner with Loeb & Loeb in New York and Chair of that firm’s national Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

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The Firm is representing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (“KKR”) in connection with the acquisition from A2A S.p.A. (“A2A”) of A2A Coriance SAS (“Coriance”), a French société anonyme simplifiée specializing in the design, construction and operation of cogeneration, biomass, geo-thermal sources, and waste to energy plants in France, with an aggregate managed capacity of 790 MW of thermal power and 123 MW of cogeneration power.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, in connection with the public offering by Texas Instruments Incorporated of an aggregate of $1.5 billion in investment grade notes.

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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Transportation Finance partner Drew S. Fine and Global Securities partner Arnold Peinado, recently represented the initial purchasers in three separate offerings of notes by Pemex, Mexico’s national oil and gas company, totaling $1.2 billion. The joint book runners were Credit Agricole Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan.

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Proskauer has expanded its biotechnology patent litigation capabilities with the addition of Mary S. Consalvi as a Partner in the firm’s Patent Law Group. Based in New York, Ms. Consalvi is the former president and general counsel of NetBio Systems, Inc., a leading provider of rapid DNA analysis solutions located in Waltham, MA.

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Andrew D. Shaffer, an attorney who concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring, has joined the law firm Butzel Long as a Shareholder in its New York office.

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Shearman & Sterling represented Inversiones La Construcción S.A. (ILC) and the selling shareholders Cámara Chilena de la Construcción A.G. and Fondo de Inversion Privado ILC in connection with the global offering of 32,193,892 shares of ILC’s common stock. The offering, which closed on July 24, raised US$468 million, making it the largest initial public offering in the Santiago Stock Exchange’s history.

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