Allen & Overy has advised 21st Century Fox, Inc on its landmark sale of Sky Italia and its 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland to BSkyB for a total consideration of USD9.3 billion in cash and assets.
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The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation $1 Billion Revolving Credit and Competitive Advance Facility
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as sole lead arranger and bookrunner and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as administrative agent in connection with a $1 billion senior unsecured revolving credit and competitive advance facility provided to The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, which amends and restates the company’s existing $800 million facility. Dun & Bradstreet will use the proceeds of the amended and restated credit facility for general corporate purposes.
DLA Piper represents Clarion Partners in sale of Mexican joint venture
DLA Piper represented Clarion Partners in its sale of LMF Frisa Comercial, a commercial real estate joint venture, to partner Frisa, a Mexican real estate investment group. The transaction closed on July 10 and is valued at US$207 million.
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Mayer Brown represents trustee on £300 million high yield notes offering by TES Finance plc
Leading global law firm Mayer Brown represented Wilmington Trust, National Association as trustee and Wilmington Trust (London) Limited as security agent in connection with the issuance by TES Finance plc of £200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.75% senior secured notes due 2020 and £100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior secured floating rate notes due 2020.
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Williams Mullen Represents Select Bancorp in Merger with New Century Bancorp
New Century Bancorp and Select Bancorp jointly reported receipt of regulatory approval from both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the North Carolina State Banking Commission for the merger of the two subsidiary banks.
In its release on July 10, the Company said that the merger was previously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and it was reported on May 27, that shareholders of both companies also had approved the merger.
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Squire Patton Boggs Advises on AIM IPO of DJI Holdings PLC
Squire Patton Boggs’ Capital Markets team has advised Canaccord Genuity and North Square Blue Oak on the AIM IPO of DJI Holdings plc. DJI, which operates through its subsidiaries as a licensed and authorised distributor and promoter of regulated lottery products in the Chinese lottery market, has been admitted to AIM with a market capitalisation of approximately £130 million.
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Allen & Overy has advised Iceland Foods on its GBP950 million high yield bond, the largest sterling denominated high yield bond issuance of 2014.
The bonds consist of GBP350m senior secured floating rate notes due 2020, GBP400m 6.25% senior secured notes due 2021 and GBP200m 6.75% senior secured notes due 2024. All will be listed on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg stock exchange.
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Cross-practice US Dentons team advises Fresenius Medical Care in multi-million dollar shareholder acquisition of Sound Physicians
A cross-practice, multi-office Dentons team advised Fresenius Medical Care, a Germany-based global health care company, in its US$600 million acquisition of a majority of the equity interests in Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc., one of the leading providers of hospitalist physician services in the United States.
Tags: DentonsConsumers Energy Company: $378 Million Securitization Bonds Offering
Hunton & Williams LLP advised the joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering of $378,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior secured securitization bonds by Consumers 2014 Securitization Funding LLC, issued pursuant to a securitization structure. The bond proceeds will be used by Consumers Energy Company (“Consumers”) to recover the remaining book value of certain coal-fired generating units. The bonds are a category of utility rate reduction bonds issued on behalf of public utilities. Approximately $50 billion of utility rate reduction bonds have been issued to date.
Autocam Corporation To Merge With NN
Paul, Weiss client Autocam Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by NN, Inc., a Tennessee-based manufacturer and supplier of high precision metal bearing components and industrial plastic and rubber products, for $244.5 million in cash, $25 million in stock and the assumption of $30.5 million in debt. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Autocam has been a leader in the engineering, manufacture and assembly of complex components for fuel systems, engines and transmissions, and power steering and electric motors. Autocam employs over 2,100 employees and has operations in 15 facilities in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia.
