Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBS Securities Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Hess Corporation of $300 million principal amount of 1.30% notes due 2017 and $300 million principal amount of 3.50% notes due 2024.

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Nabarro has played a central role in advising Land Securities on its £656m acquisition from Lend Lease of a 30% stake in Bluewater, the iconic, Kent shopping centre. In addition, Land Securities has acquired the asset management rights for the centre and 110 acres of surrounding land.

Bluewater is the UK’s prime retail mall outside London attracting 27 million visitors a year in one of the most affluent areas of the country. The centre totals 1.8 million sq. ft. and is home to over 330 retailers, cafes, bars and restaurants and includes 13,000 parking spaces.

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Linklaters has advised Lend Lease on the £696m sale of its 30% interest in the Bluewater Shopping Centre to Land Securities.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Tall Oak Midstream, LLC, an innovative midstream company in an equity commitment of $400 million from private equity firm EnCap Flatrock Midstream and Tall Oak management.
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Simpson Thacher recently represented Korea Gas Corporation in connection with its offering of US$500,000,000 3.875% Senior Notes due 2024 under its US$8 billion global medium term notes program. The offering was conducted in reliance upon Rule 144A and Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amend.

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Skadden is advising Endo International plc on its $575 million acquisition of DAVA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company specializing in marketed, prelaunch and pipeline generic pharmaceuticals, announced June 24.
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Petrol, d.d., Ljubljana, has successfully placed 5-year bonds worth a total of EUR 265 million. The bonds were priced at 99.32% of their notional amount, carrying a 3.25% annual coupon and a yield to maturity of 3.4%. Petrol, d.d., Ljubljana, announced its transaction on the open market on Monday, 16 June 2014. The order book was closed within three hours of the transaction announcement with roughly EUR 1 billion in high-quality orders from over 120 institutional investors. The transactions were concluded primarily with fund managers and insurance companies, which accounted for 89% of the orders, with the balance taken up by banks and private banks with 10% and other investors accounting for the remaining 1%.

The Wolf Theiss team was led by Partner Markus Bruckmüller and Associate Uroš Notar. The scope of work included negotiating the documentation from a Slovenian law perspective, drafting the taxation section in the Prospectus, as well as providing a standard legal opinion on the documentation. Wolf Theiss Partner Markus Bruckmüller commented: “The transaction further proves that Wolf Theiss holds a strong position in Capital Markets transactions involving Slovenian issuers.”
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Akin Gump advised the conflicts committee of the board of directors of Rose Rock Midstream, L.P.’s general partner in the partnership’s $300 million acquisition of SemGroup Corporation’s remaining one-third interest in SemCrude Pipeline, L.L.C., which owns a 51 percent interest in White Cliffs Pipeline L.L.C. Rose Rock now owns a 100 percent interest in SemCrude Pipeline and indirectly owns a 51 percent interest in White Cliffs Pipeline.

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