Clifford Chance advised Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited who acted as lead manager in connection with the issue of bonds with a total volume of 1 billion Renminbi by KfW. The transaction is part of the KfW issue programme and is the first bond issued by KfW in the Chinese currency. The bond bears interest at a rate of 2% p.a. and its maturity is two years.
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Chris W. Cotterill, former chief of staff and corporation counsel for the City of Indianapolis under Mayor Gregory A. Ballard, joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner on the government team. Cotterill will practice from the firm’s downtown Indianapolis office.
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Prominent cross-border M&A attorney David Gitlin has joined the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Gitlin joins the Philadelphia office in the Corporate & Securities practice as a shareholder. He was previously a partner at Blank Rome, LLP, and the head of its Israel Practice.
Tags: Greenberg Traurig LLPThe International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLPannounced today that Alais L. M. Griffin has joined its Chicago office as a Shareholder in theLitigation, Transportation and Governmental Affairs Practices.
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Davis Polk advised BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as joint book-running managers and representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 1.35% senior notes due 2015 and $650 million aggregate principal amount of 3.2% senior notes due 2022, issued by Covidien International Finance S.A. and guaranteed by Covidien plc and Covidien Ltd.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell | New YorkDavis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as representatives of the several underwriters on the $1.015 billion SEC-registered initial public offering of 40,600,000 shares of common stock of PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund. The shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PDI.”
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Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) is delighted to announce the recruitment of ">James Lewis and ">Robert Finney as Partners from the London office of Dewey & LeBoeuf.
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In its latest large-scale project finance transaction in Latin America, law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has represented a group of international lenders in financing a 237-mile, 36-inch natural gas transmission pipeline being laid in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, with an interconnection point at the US / Mexico border. The debt provided was a US$378 million facility, while total project costs for the pipeline – expected to bring US supplies of natural gas to several Mexican states – are estimated at US$472 million.
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As reported today in Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, U.S. grain merchant Gavilon Holdings LLC has agreed to be acquired by Marubeni Corporation, one of the largest general trading companies in Japan, for $3.6 billion. Paul, Weiss advised General Atlantic, a private equity sponsor of Gavilon, in the transaction.
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