Baker & McKenzie’s client the Dallas Stars recently announced the successful completion of a $95 million refinancing with a syndicate of banks led by Bank of America and including BBVA/Compass Bank, Comerica and HSBC.

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On December 20, 2012, Contran Corporation majority-owned subsidiary, Titanium Metals Corporation, was acquired by Precision Castparts Corporation pursuant to a negotiated cash tender offer commenced under a merger agreement between Timet and PCC and a related support agreement between Contran and PCC.

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Jackson Walker successfully represented Prophet Equity LP, a $300 million Texas-based private equity firm, in the acquisition of Hatch Stamping Company and its affiliated entities in a series of five acquisition transactions and two lending transactions. The deals were all closed on December 20, 2012.

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Texas homebuilder Darling Homes in its sale to Taylor Morrison, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The deal closed on Dec. 31, 2012.

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The Dallas office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Mary R. Korby and T. Gregory Jackson as partners in the firm’s corporate and commercial disputes practices, respectively.

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added former Haynes and Boone partner and section chair, Jonathan C. Wilson as a shareholder in its Dallas, TX office. A seasoned labor lawyer, Wilson brings with him expertise in defending employers in wage and hour cases, discrimination and whistle-blower lawsuits, executive contract disputes and fiduciary and unfair competition claims.

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A Weil team led by Dallas Public Company Advisory Group (PCAG) partner P.J. Himelfarb and Washington, DC PCAG associate Adé Heyliger advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd. on the US aspects of its C$5.1 billion offer for all outstanding shares of Inmet Mining Corp. (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP acted as lead Canadian counsel on this transaction.) First Quantum is a mining company with a global portfolio of copper and nickel assets in Africa, Australia, South America, and Europe, and Inmet is a global mining company based in Canada. The combined company would have a portfolio of seven producing mines and four development projects in eight countries around the world.

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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Scott D. Deatherage as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. Mr. Deatherage focuses his practice on environmental, energy and greenhouse gas regulatory matters. In addition to providing permitting, compliance and litigation services, he counsels clients — specifically those in the oil and gas, pipeline, mining and manufacturing industries — on a wide array of environmental issues in connection with transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.

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Jackson Walker successfully represented Buffalo Studios LLC, a privately held social and mobile games developer, in the sale of its Bingo Blitz business and Santa Monica, Calif., development studio to Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc.

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Jackson Walker successfully represented client NuStar Energy L.P. in the sale of its San Antonio refinery and related assets to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. for $100 million, plus closing date inventory of approximately $15 million. The deal closed on Jan. 2, 2013. The related assets included a terminal in Elmendorf, Texas, and a pipeline connecting the terminal and refinery.

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