Armstrong Teasdale announces the addition of litigation partner Tracy DiFillippo and paralegal Traci Burns to the Las Vegas office. Tara Baugh has been named office manager due to the firm’s growth in Las Vegas, where we currently have 13 attorneys.
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Louise Adamson has joined the firm as Partner in the San Francisco office. She joins from K&L Gates.
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Alan D. Minsk has joined Lane Powell as a shareholder in the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on patent prosecution, patent litigation support, patent portfolio evaluation and the related due diligence processes, due diligence for purposes of mergers and acquisitions, strategic portfolio development and management, patent licensing and the development of in-house patent programs for clients. His prosecution experience includes application preparation and prosecution for technologies that include e-commerce, communications systems, messaging systems, search methods, semiconductor processing, flash memory, imaging arrays, radar, lasers, signal and image processing, neural networks, adaptive control systems, optical computers and wireless data services.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised BNP Paribas and a pool of 200 lenders in connection with the rescheduling of Materis’ debt. Materis is a world leader in specialty chemicals for building and construction.
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Baker & McKenzie has acted for The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and certain Dow subsidiaries in relation to the USD 1.4 billion Islamic finance facilities made available to Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC), Saudi Acrylic Monomers Company (SAMCO) and Saudi Acrylic Polymers Company (SAPCO) to support the construction and operation of three integrated petrochemical plants in Jubail Industrial City in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These three companies are each borrowers of separate loans on an integrated project financing basis.
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Herbert Smith has advised Hammerson as the lead legal advisor on the sale of the majority of its office portfolio to Brookfield Office Properties for aggregate cash proceeds of £518 million.
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The Firm is representing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) and Alliance Boots GmbH (Alliance Boots) in connection with the acquisition of a 45% equity stake in Alliance Boots by Walgreen Co. (Walgreens), in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $6.7 billion. Walgreens will have the option to proceed to a full combination by acquiring the remaining 55% of Alliance Boots at a later date for approximately $9.5 billion in cash and stock. Closing of the first step of the transaction is subject to satisfaction of regulatory and other customary conditions.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkThe Firm is representing KKR & Co. L.P. in its acquisition of Prisma Capital Partners LP, a leading provider of customized hedge fund solutions. Prisma is known for identifying specialist hedge fund managers with exceptional track records and creating custom portfolios for clients. As of April 1, 2012, Prisma had $7.8 billion in assets under management, with more than 90% belonging to institutional investors. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter 2012.
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Kramer Levin represented a joint venture of Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group in connection with its winning bid for and negotiation of a 97-year ground lease to develop a new $300 million hotel and residential complex that will be built next to Pier 1, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a 1.3-mile-long park which stretches along the East River on the Brooklyn waterfront. The development will include approximately 200 hotel rooms, 160 condominium apartments, 32,000 square feet of restaurant and banquet space, a 6,000-square-foot spa and a 300 space parking facility. The deal was approved by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s Board on Tuesday, June 19.
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