Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC, announced today that it represented AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) in its agreement to acquire Zygo Corporation (NASDAQ: ZIGO) in a transaction valued at approximately $280 million.  The transaction is expected to be completed towards the end of the second quarter of calendar 2014, subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of Zygo’s stockholders and applicable regulatory approvals.

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With help of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division has partnered with Koch Equity Development LLC, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., to acquire shares representing 100% of Flint Group’s share capital from funds advised by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. Koch Equity Development has agreed to invest with Goldman Sachs in a newly formed entity that will acquire Flint Group. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking and the newly formed entity were comprehensively advised on this transaction by an international Milbank team led by corporate partner Peter Nussbaum.

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The Firm represented Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, HSBC Bank plc, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and other underwriters in connection with a €1.5 billion offering of debt securities by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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Urban Splash, working in partnership with The Pears Group, has agreed to refinance ￡135m of its remaining debt from the RBS, CoOp, HSBC and Blackstone and formed a new joint venture with Pears.

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A cross-practice Ropes & Gray team advised Bain Capital-backed Summit Partners on its $550 million investment in ABILITY Network Inc., a leading provider of web-based workflow solutions for health care providers. The transaction, which was announced April 7, is subject to regulatory approvals.

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Kirkland & Ellis represented Vision Knight Capital, a leading independent Chinese private equity firm, which recently closed its second private equity fund Vision Knight Capital China Fund II. The fund closed at its hard cap with aggregate capital commitments of US$550 million. The fund, which will make investments in China’s retail and consumer internet and e-commerce sectors, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, endowments and foundations, diversified financial institutions and family offices. More >>

The Firm represented SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (“SeaWorld Entertainment”), a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group L.P. (“Blackstone”), and certain selling stockholders affiliated with Blackstone (the “Selling Stockholders”), in connection with a public offering of common stock by the Selling Stockholders. Concurrently with the closing of the offering, SeaWorld Entertainment repurchased 1,750,000 shares of its common stock directly from the Selling Stockholders in a private, non-underwritten transaction at a price per share equal to the price per share paid to the Selling Stockholders by the underwriters in the offering. SeaWorld Entertainment is a leading theme park and entertainment company with a diversified portfolio of 11 destination and regional theme parks in the United States, many of which showcase its one-of-a-kind collection of approximately 86,000 marine and terrestrial animals.

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