Polsinelli welcomes environmental attorney Christopher Erker to the firm as a shareholder. Erker joins a national Environmental and Natural Resources Practice with attorneys in Denver, Kansas City, Phoenix, Washington, D.C. and now St. Louis. Erker assists clients locally and nationally and for the past 18 years has concentrated exclusively on environmental matters and health and safety matters.
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Cahill represented Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets and Credit Suisse Securities as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Senior Notes due 2020 by Springleaf Finance Corporation.
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On May 29 Willkie client Insight Venture Partners announced the closing of Insight Venture Partners VIII, a $2.57 billion private equity fund. Like its seven predecessor funds, Insight will invest Fund VIII in the technology sector, including global software, e-Commerce, internet and data-services businesses. Investments will be made in growth stage and more mature companies as minority or control transactions. The new fund, which is Insight’s largest, will further Insight’s existing strategy of assisting portfolio companies to achieve their long-term operational and financial goals. It will have the flexibility to invest in opportunities worldwide any amount up to approximately $300 million of equity per transaction. Since its founding in 1995, New York-based Insight has raised more than $7.6 billion and made more than 190 investments worldwide. Willkie has represented Insight in a host of transactions including most recently the $6.9 billion consortium acquisition of BMC Software.
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International law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised BTG plc, a FTSE-250 international specialist pharmaceutical company, on its $220 million (£147 million) acquisition of EKOS Corporation (EKOS), an interventional vascular business, headquartered in Seattle, US. In what has been a very important day for BTG plc, the company has also agreed to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc for $200 million (£133 million), and undertaken a £100 million cashbox placing, highlighting significant expansion for the company within the global pharmaceutical market.
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Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, today announced the opening of its Washington, DC office and welcomed two new partners: Christopher Griner, one of the country’s top lawyers counseling clients on national security issues and matters before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”); and Robert E. Plaze, a 30-year veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management, where most recently he was Deputy Director of the Division of Investment Management and notably responsible for money market, investment adviser and many of the Dodd Frank regulations affecting asset managers.
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Linklaters today announces the opening of an office in Seoul, bringing on-the-ground execution capability across key practice areas.
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Am Law 200 firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP is expanding from its Midwest base and opening a Washington, D.C. office on June 3, 2013. Michael Best’s office in Washington, D.C. will be located at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue NW and will focus on the areas of Energy, Environmental, Intellectual Property, Food and Agriculture and FDA.
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Foley successfully represented Revera Inc., a leading provider of seniors’ accommodation, care and services, in its formation of a US $1.35 billion joint venture with Health Care REIT, one of North America’s largest seniors housing and health care real estate investment trusts. In the deal, officially closed today, Health Care REIT will share ownership of 47 Revera retirement homes in Canada and will own 75% interest in the portfolio. Revera will maintain ownership of the remaining 25% interest and continue to manage the residences and earn payments through a management contract. Also included in the transaction terms is that Health Care REIT will pay Revera US $697 million and take on US $314 million in current mortgage debt.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Portola Pharmaceuticals on its $140 million initial public offering. Portola is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics in the areas of thrombosis, other hematologic disorders and inflammation for patients who currently have limited or no approved treatment options. It now trades on the NASDAQ Global Stock Market under the symbol “PTLA.”
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Daniel A. Mullen has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department and Energy Group, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Mullen will head up the Firm’s Energy Enforcement Practice and provide counsel on energy and commodities enforcement matters as well as government investigations, enforcement proceedings and litigation.
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