The Firm represented the initial purchasers in connection with the Rule 144A and Reg S offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 4.875% Senior Notes due 2022 by SBA Communications Corporation. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., RBS Securities Inc. and TD Securities (USA) LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. The offering closed on July 1, 2014.

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Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT business management software, has closed its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm with approximately $11.5B in cumulative capital commitments in software, data and technology-enabled services companies. Nixon Peabody served as lead counsel to Autotask.

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Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) has signed a €660 million revolving credit facility with a group of leading global and regional banks, underlining growing global confidence in the Swedish car company’s financial and operational transformation. The €660 million revolving credit facility extends an existing €360 million revolving credit facility signed early in 2013. It will serve as a back-up facility for general corporate purposes and has a tenor of three years with two extension options of one year each. The new credit facility broadens the group of banks working with Volvo Cars.
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Fredrikson & Byron acted as legal counsel for Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), a global leader in bioanalytical testing and genomic services, in its acquisition of ViraCor-IBT Laboratories, Inc. (VIBT), a leading specialty diagnostics laboratory partner in immunology, infectious disease and allergy testing, for $255 million, subject to post-closing adjustments. Fredrikson also represented Eurofins in its 2014 acquisitions of Merck Millipore’s pharmaceutical discovery and development solutions business in the US and UK, and Underwriters Laboratories’ consumer and municipal water testing business.

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Leading offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes has advised Heritage Oil Plc on its takeover by Energy Investments Global Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Mirqab Capital SPC.

The takeover, which was implemented by way of a Jersey court sanctioned scheme of arrangement, valued Heritage Oil at approximately £924 million. Anthony Buckingham, Heritage Oil’s CEO, retained a 20 per cent interest in Heritage Oil following completion of the takeover.

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The Firm represented Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. in connection with a $2.3 billion secondary offering, consisting of 103,500,000 shares of common stock (including 13,500,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their option to purchase additional shares) at a public offering price of $22.50 per share.

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