The Firm represented Vista Equity Partners in raising $3.5 billion for Vista Equity Partners Fund IV, L.P. Vista was able to significantly expand its investor base and exceeded the amount it was targeting by $1 billion.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPThe Firm represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays and J.P. Morgan, as initial purchasers, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by iStar Financial Inc. of $275 million of its 9.0% Senior Notes due 2017. The offering closed on May 8, 2012.
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Pearson VUE, the computer-based testing arm of Pearson plc, today announced the acquisition of Certiport from private equity firm Spire Capital Partners L.P. for $140 million in cash. Certiport is a leading provider of performance-based certification exams and practice test solutions for academic institutions, workforce and corporate technology markets. Certiport, which has 12,000 Authorized Tester Centers worldwide and delivers over 2 million exams across 150 countries annually, will continue to operate independently. Minneapolis-based Pearson VUE delivers exams to a secure network of test centers in 170 countries.
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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has announced that it opened an office in Warsaw, Poland and strategically established a presence in Eastern Europe with a 50-plus-lawyer team formerly with Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. The firm’s 35th office will operate as Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak in Poland. Jaroslaw Grzesiak, former managing partner of Dewey’s Warsaw office, serves as the managing partner and Lejb Fogelman as the senior partner.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added real estate partner Andrei V. Soukhomlinov and corporate and finance partner Dmitry K. Gladkov to its Moscow office. Soukhomlinov joins K&L Gates from Salans LLP, where he was co-head of its Russian real estate/construction practice, while Gladkov was formerly the general counsel for Russia/CIS at leading Russian investment bank Aton and, prior to that, at UBS.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that one of the nation’s leading antitrust attorneys, Allan Van Fleet, will join the Firm as a partner in Houston as a member of its Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Mr. Van Fleet and associate Nicholas G. Grimmer join McDermott from the Houston office of an AmLaw 10 law firm. The two will join McDermott partner and former Department of Justice Antitrust Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Alison Smith and her team in Houston, a “go-to” antitrust firm in Texas.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher J. Clark has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Clark joins Latham with over a decade of experience as federal prosecutor and a private practitioner. Clark has extensive substantive expertise in defending criminal and regulatory investigations, and in providing advice to public companies, hedge funds and investment advisors. Prior to his experience in private practice, Clark served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Securities Fraud Unit of the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York from 1999 to 2005.
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King & Wood Mallesons advised Sydney Water and the NSW Government on the successful refinancing of Sydney Desalination Plant for $2.3 billion. KWM worked alongside the other lead advisers Goldman Sachs and KPMG as part of a project team consisting of representatives from the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Treasury, and the Department of Finance and Services. The project team was led by Sydney Water and Chaired by Dr Kerry Schott.
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Hogan Lovells has been advising JKC Australia LNG (a joint venture between Japan’s JGC Corporation, Houston-based KBR and Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation) in relation to the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project in Australia. JKC signed a contract with INPEX earlier this year for the engineering, procurement and construction of the onshore LNG facilities, to be built near Darwin in Australia.
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