Simpson Thacher recently represented Walter Energy, Inc. in its offering of $450 million aggregate principal amount of 8.500% Senior Notes due 2021. Walter Energy used the net proceeds of the offering to repay $250 million of indebtedness outstanding under its credit facilities and the remainder for general corporate purposes. The offering was conducted in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S.
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Peter M. Reyes, Jr. has joined the firm’s Minneapolis office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Department.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ali Nikpay will join the firm as a partner in the worldwide antitrust and competition law practice group. Nikpay will join the firm on April 15 after nine years as Senior Director at the Office of Fair Trading, the UK’s competition authority. At the OFT, he served in a number of leadership posts, including most recently as head of its Cartels and Criminal Enforcement division and as one of the OFT’s main decision makers in merger cases. He was also a member of the OFT’s Executive Committee.
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Clyde & Co corporate finance partner Gary Thorpe and associates Katie Lamb, Carl Hotton and Lucy Pugh advised Lizarazu Limited (a company associated with the Russian entrepreneur, Mr Mustoev) on the purchase of the stake sold by Onexim Group in Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL) for $3.6bn (£2.4bn).
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Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $2.5 billion aggregate financing, including a $1.5 billion 364-day credit facility and a $1 billion amended and restated five-year credit facility, for United Parcel Service, Inc.
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Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella is pleased to announce that Thomas J. Boyle has joined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate practice. Mr. Boyle has concentrated his practice in the real estate tax field for the past 17 years, representing commercial, industrial, and residential property owners in challenging property tax assessments on both a local and a national level. Before joining the firm, Mr. Boyle was a partner in the Real Estate practice at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg in Chicago.
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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP announces that a longtime Washington, D.C., attorney with experience in bank regulatory, consumer finance, and payments systems matters has joined the Firm’s growing financial services practice.
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Clifford Chance has advised Emirates NBD PJSC (“ENBD“) in relation to the issuance of US$750 million 4.875 per cent. subordinated reset notes due 2023 (the “Notes“) under its US$7.5 billion European Medium Term Note Programme. The issuance of the Notes took place on 28 March 2013 and comprise Tier II capital on ENBD’s regulatory balance sheet. The Notes were admitted to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and listed on NASDAQ Dubai. Clifford Chance also advised ENBD in relation to the annual update of its European Medium Term Note Programme.
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International law firm Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP advised InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) on the sale of InterContinental London Park Lane to Constellation Hotel (Opco) UK S.A., a private investment vehicle owned by Constellation Hotels Holding Limited.
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