Mayer Brown represented private equity firm The Jordan Company on the sale of Haas Group Inc., a fully integrated provider of outsourced chemical supply chain management solutions, to Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. for $550 million. Haas is a portfolio company of The Resolute Fund, L.P., an affiliate of The Jordan Company. Wesco is a leading provider of supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry. More >>

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, is representing UBS AG, Stamford Branch, UBS Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in the financing of Lake Region Medical Inc.’s acquisition by Acellent Inc., a leading provider of fully integrated outsourced manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry. More >>

Shearman & Sterling represented the Province of Ontario in connection with a public offering of $2,000,000,000 of its 2.000% Bonds due January 30, 2019. Application will be made to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange for the bonds to be admitted to trading on the Euro MTF Market of the exchange.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented HSBC Bank Canada, J.P. Morgan Chase, Barclays Bank PLC, Royal Bank of Canada, UBS Limited, Standard Bank, Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas in a new $375 million revolving credit facility for CHC Helicopter S.A. in connection with CHC Group Ltd.’s IPO. More >>

The Firm recently represented Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in connection with its offering of 210 million shares of common stock, which raised proceeds of approximately ¥223,818 million ($2.2 billion) and included an international offering to institutional investors pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.

The international offering was led by Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Merrill Lynch International and Nomura International plc.

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation develops, manufactures and sells passenger vehicles throughout the world.

The Simpson Thacher team for the offering included David Sneider, Takahiro Saito, Robert Dunn and Nirav Mehta (Capital Markets) and Jonathan Cantor and Vanessa Grieve (Tax).

Lawyers:
• Jonathan E. Cantor
• Robert Dunn
• Vanessa B. Grieve
• Nirav Mehta
• Takahiro Saito
• David A. Sneider

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented Canada’s export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) in its inaugural offering of green bonds, whose proceeds will support the agency’s lending to environmentally beneficial initiatives worldwide.

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Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised ewz, Zurich Municipal Electric Utility, (“ewz”) on the acquisition of shares in offshore wind farm “Butendiek” in the German North Sea.

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On January 29, 2014, Rice Energy Inc. (NYSE: RICE) closed its $1.05 billion initial public offering of 50 million common shares at a price to the public of $21 per share.　 RICE offered 30 million shares, while the selling stockholder — NGP Holdings — offered 20 million shares. The company won’t receive any proceeds from shares sold by NGP Holdings. More >>

The Florida business law firm Berger Singerman LLP is pleased to announce that attorney team members Daniel Lampert, Franklin Caplan, Phyllis Bean, and Iryna Ivashchuk, recently represented Southern Air Inc. (SAI) in a $700 million aircraft lease and flight services restructuring involving four Boeing 777F cargo aircraft. The deal closed on January 24, 2014.

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Cahill represented Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, and Morgan Stanley as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in connection with the public offering of $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.5% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2019 by Ally Financial Inc. Proceeds from the offering were used for general corporate purposes.

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