Ropes & Gray represented Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC, a Kohlberg-backed company, in the planned sale of its insurance and services division for $280 million to Solera Holdings Inc. The deal was announced May 12 and is expected to close by June 30. The insurance and services division of Pittsburgh Glass Works provides auto glass claims management services and software and electronic connectivity solutions for insurance companies, parts suppliers and retail installers. More >>

Cahill represented the joint book-running managers and co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.5% Senior Notes due 2021 by LifePoint Hospitals, Inc., a leading hospital company dedicated to providing quality healthcare services close to home. Proceeds from the offering were used to refinance existing indebtedness.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm acted as counsel to the underwriters Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and HSBC Securities in the SEC registered offering of $1 billion of 5% 30 year bonds by Televisa.  Televisa is the largest Spanish language media company in the world and provides most of the programming for the U.S. television network Univision.  The offering was heard to be more than seven times oversubscribed, driven mostly by demand from U.S. investors.

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Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP welcomes Kevin P. Braig to the firm’s Columbus office as a partner in the Environmental and Litigation practice groups. Kevin will focus his practice on agribusiness and environmental compliance and litigation.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc. (“Vista Land”), the largest homebuilder in the Philippines, on its issuance of US$225 million 7.45% guaranteed notes due 2019 and a tender offer whereby it purchased US$104 million of its outstanding 8.25% guaranteed notes due 2015. More >>

Shearman & Sterling represented Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners in connection with an issuance of €1,000,000,000, 3.75% notes due 2026 of Petróleos Mexicanos (“Pemex”) and guaranteed by its wholly owned subsidiaries Pemex-Exploración y Producción, Pemex-Refinación and Pemex-Gas y Petroquímica Básica.

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Hunton & Williams LLP advised Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Appalachian Power Company (“APCo”) of $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2044.

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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised State Grid Corporation of China, the world’s largest public utilities company, on its US$3.5 billion Rule 144A/Regulation S senior guaranteed notes issuance in Hong Kong.

The issuer’s notes were offered in three tranches— US$1.25 billion 2.750% guaranteed senior notes due 2019, US$1.6 billion 4.125% guaranteed senior notes due 2024 and US$650 million 4.850% guaranteed senior notes due 2044.

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