With a continued move towards expanding its geographic footprint, Richardson & Patel LLP announced today that it has opened an office in Orange County under the leadership of Partner Addison Adams
Yearly Archives: 2012
Stoel Rives Welcomes Labor and Employment Attorney Renea Saade
Stoel Rives LLP, a leading U.S. business law firm, is pleased to announce that Renea Saade has joined its Anchorage office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment group. Renea has more than a decade of experience counseling clients on labor and employment issues. She assists clients on a broad range of employment matters including noncompetition/nonsolicitation enforcement, wrongful termination, requests for accommodation, workplace investigations and discipline.
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Pillsbury Advises Tesoro in $1.18 Billion Acquisition of BP Refinery
Tesoro Corp. will spend $2.5 billion to purchase a Southern California refinery and more than 800 gas stations in California, Nevada and Arizona. In addition, Tesoro will also acquire the ARCO brand.
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Cahill – First Data Corporation Completes $1.3 Billion Notes Offering
Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, Wells Fargo Securities, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $1,300,000,000 6 3/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 by First Data Corporation. Proceeds from the offering will be used to prepay term loans under the company’s senior secured credit facilities.
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Simpson Thacher Represents Getty Images, Inc. and its Controlling Shareholder, Hellman & Friedman, in Connection with Getty Images’ $3.3 Billion Acquisition by The Carlyle Group and Getty Images Management
Simpson Thacher is representing Getty Images, Inc. and its controlling shareholders, investment funds affiliated with Hellman & Friedman LLC, in connection with Getty Images’ pending acquisition by entities controlled by The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Getty Images management for $3.3 billion. Carlyle will acquire a controlling stake in Getty Images, while Getty Images Co-Founder and Chairman Mark Getty and the Getty family will roll substantially all of their ownership interests into the transaction.
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Perkins Coie Continues Chicago Expansion
Perkins Coie has announced the recruitment of Randy A. Bridgeman to the firm’s corporate practice in Chicago. Formerly the corporate practice head at K&L Gates, Mr. Bridgeman has gained significant private equity and finance experience throughout his career.
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Corporate & Finance Partner Simon Cheong Joins Sheppard Mullin Beijing
Simon Kai-Tse Cheong has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Finance and Bankruptcy practice groups, based in the firm’s Beijing office. Cheong joins from the Chinese law firm Zhong Lun in Beijing.
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of a Seoul office in the Mirae Asset CENTER. The new office, which is the firm’s sixteenth location, opens following last month’s Korean Bar Association registration of the firm’s foreign legal consultant office in Seoul, the final regulatory step needed by the firm to open a Korean office. Sheppard Mullin is among the first three law firms in the United States and the European Union approved to open in Korea.
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Weil Advises Getty Images, Inc. in $3.3 Billion Sale to The Carlyle Group and Management
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that it served as legal adviser to Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, in its sale by Hellman & Friedman to a partnership comprised of global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and Getty Images management for $3.3 billion.
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Shearman & Sterling Advises Underwriters on Sprint Nextel Corporation’s $1.5 Billion High Yield Notes Offering
Shearman & Sterling advised the underwriters in connection with Sprint Nextel Corporation’s offering of $1.5 billion of 7.000% notes due 2020. J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint bookrunners.
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