Continuing the firm’s ongoing strategic growth efforts, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has added a team of three litigators to its Washington, DC office. Joining are partners John Parker Sweeney and T. Sky Woodward, along with associate Kevin B. Mattingly. All three come to the firm from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Min Ho Lee has joined the firm in Washington, DC as a partner in the Litigation & Dispute practice, focusing on international arbitration and antitrust law. Previously, Mr. Lee was a partner at the Korean law firm Lee & Ko and earlier was with Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented RBC Capital Markets, BMO Capital Markets and Jefferies Finance LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and Royal Bank of Canada, as Administrative Agent, in connection with the financing for Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s acquisition of Heartland Dental Care. The financing consisted of $750,000,000 in first lien and second lien senior secured credit facilities.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | New YorkPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented RBC Capital Markets and Barclays Bank PLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Royal Bank of Canada, as U.S. Administrative Agent, and RBC Europe Limited, as European Administrative Agent, in connection with the financing for Sequa Corporation’s sale of its automotive unit to The Jordan Company, a New York-based private equity firm. The financing consisted of $275,000,000 in U.S. and European senior secured credit facilities.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Traeger Machetanz and Jon DeMella have joined the Firm’s Seattle office as Partners. Mr. Machetanz’s practice focuses on construction-related matters and he is widely known in the Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska construction industry communities. Mr. DeMella’s practice focuses on government contract issues and he has a strong background in the complexities of various government contract programs, regulations and the bidding and bid protest processes. Mr. Machetanz and Mr. DeMella are two key strategic recruitments as Dorsey continues to build full-service construction and government contracts practices serving the Seattle and Anchorage markets.
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Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz, a respected litigator in the White Collar, Healthcare and Antitrust fields, joins Arnall Golden Gregory’s growing Washington, D.C. office as a partner.
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Simpson Thacher represented Northwood Investors LLC (“Northwood”) in its third offering of interests in Northwood Real Estate Partners LP and its related funds, which are private equity funds focused on investing in a wide range of real estate assets worldwide. The funds closed on $500 million of capital commitments during a 90-day period that ended in December 2012, bringing total capital commitments raised to approximately $2.8 billion. The funds’ capital commitments may grow over time as the result of a unique evergreen feature that allows the funds to reinvest investment proceeds, subject to certain limitations.
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Irwin Mitchell’s vision to be recognised as one of the leading real estate law firms in the UK has received a major boost after it confirmed that high profile commercial property lawyers, Anita Weightman, Roy Beckett, Patrick Duffy and Tony Weightman, will join the firm’s Manchester office from DLA Piper on 1 February 2013.
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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that it is adding energy Partners Julian Nichol and Alastair Young to its London office. Nichol will serve as the office’s managing partner. These additions will serve to expand and enhance Bracewell’s globally recognized energy practice.
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Peak Re’s Hong Kong subsidiary Peak Reinsurance Company Limited is aiming initially to capture the growing demand for reinsurance in the Asia-Pacific region and has planned to service markets in the region. Peak Re has an issued capital of US$550 million, with Fosun International contributing US$468 million as the founding shareholder and IFC putting in an equity investment of US$82 million. Fosun International is a major investment group with a focus on China and IFC is the investment arm of the World Bank Group. Both companies have teamed up to capitalise on the growing demand of the Asia-Pacific reinsurance market.
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