Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium of placing agents led by Goldman Sachs, China Galaxy International and Nomura in connection with the US$3.1 billion placing of H shares of China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. This placing is the largest follow-on offering in China and second largest follow-on offering in Asia in 2015 to date. More >>
Tags: Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Beijing | Hong Kong | ShanghaiKirkland & Ellis LLP represented Armored AutoGroup., a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners, in its sale to Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion in cash and assumed debt.
Avista Capital Partners is a leading private equity firm with approximately $6 billion under management and offices in New York, Houston and London. More >>
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National law firm Polsinelli adds two noted San Francisco labor and employment attorneys to serve clients nationally. Shareholder Charles O. Thompson joins the firm as the Vice Chair of the California Labor & Employment Practice Group and will lead Polsinelli’s West Coast Labor and Employment Practice. Michele Haydel Gehrke also joins as a Shareholder, bringing Polsinelli’s growing, national Labor and Employment Practice to more than 50 attorneys coast to coast. Thompson and Gehrke previously practiced together at the same AmLaw 100 firm in San Francisco. Polsinelli entered the California market nearly four years ago in Los Angeles, and opened a San Francisco office last year with a strategic goal to expand. More >>
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Riker Danzig welcomes Partner Anthony J. Zarillo, Jr., Counsel Michael J. Rossignol and Associate Jason P. Gratt to its Insurance and Reinsurance Group. The three previously practiced at Bevan, Mosca, Giuditta & Zarillo, P.C. Also joining the Insurance Group are Associates Brooks H. Leonard and Amanda E. McKinlay. More >>
Tags: Riker Danzig LLP | MorristownChadbourne & Parke represented the lenders on the US$3.691 billion financing of Train 3 of the Freeport LNG liquefaction and export project at Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas. The cost of the Freeport LNG liquefaction project, which consists of three trains, is expected to be approximately US$12.5 billion. The project financings include an additional approximately US$3 billion raised for refinancing costs and contingency funding, making it the largest fully non-recourse construction and buffer lot acquisition financing project ever. More >>
Tags: New York | WashingtonNetScout Systems, Inc. received unconditional clearance from the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for its proposed acquisition of the Communications Business of Danaher Corporation. The clearance follows the issuance of a Second Request by the DOJ, which occurred on December 24, 2014, and effectively extended the waiting period imposed by the HSR Act. As part of a negotiated timing agreement, NetScout agreed to delay close of the transaction until late May, making the DOJ’s early decision to terminate its investigation without imposing any remedies a welcome development in the deal timeline. More >>
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Gordon & Rees is continuing its national expansion with the opening of its 35th office in Boston, Massachusetts on May 1, 2015. The Boston office will complement the firm’s existing presence in the Northeast and allow it to better serve its many clients with needs in the area.
John Robinson has been named managing partner of the office, and will be joined by partner William Murray and associates Delaney Busch, Glenn Coffin, Kelly Kirby, and Greil Roberts. The Boston office attorneys primarily serve clients in complex products liability, toxic tort, medical device, construction, commercial, and insurance coverage litigation, as well as in other legal sectors. More >>
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the consortium of KKR, Värde Partners and Deutsche Bank on its financing of the A$8.2 billion acquisition of GE’s Australian and New Zealand consumer lending business.
GE’s consumer finance business has over three million customers in Australia and New Zealand and provides consumer financial products including credit cards, personal loans, consumer credit insurance and sales finance. More >>
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Taft is pleased to announce that four lateral partners have joined its Indianapolis office as part of the firm’s intellectual property team. Joining the firm are four patent attorneys:
•John H. Allie
•Douglas A. Collier
•Jason A. Houdek
•Mark T. Stephenson
“We are thrilled to welcome these outstanding, well-respected practitioners to Taft. With this addition, we add significant experience and bench strength to our existing intellectual property team, growing to more than 40 IP attorneys firm wide,” said Robert J. Hicks, partner-in-charge of Taft’s Indianapolis office. More >>
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Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of William “Bill” Cook as a partner in the Intellectual Property, Information & Innovation Group in Chicago.
Cook was formerly a partner in the Chicago office of McGuire Woods, where he served as Deputy Chair of that firm’s Data Privacy & Security team. More >>
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