Attorneys Robert Glass, Philip Hixon, Jared Nelson, Meagen Burrows, Susan Jordan and LeAnn Ellis will be joining the GableGotwals team effective January 1, 2014. Accompanying the attorneys will be their team of five professionals.

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Simpson Thacher represented APX Group, Inc. (“Vivint”), a Blackstone portfolio company, in connection with its Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.75% Senior Notes due 2020. The notes were issued as additional 8.75% Senior Notes due 2020 under the indenture dated as of November 16, 2012. Vivint used the proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, RBS Securities Inc., Barclays Bank PLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent, in connection with a $300,000,000 credit facility for Valero Energy Partners LP.

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Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFWAP”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised MISC Capital (L) Limited in relation to their USD$1 billion loan facility to refinance existing debt and for other corporate purposes.

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Dentons Canada LLP is pleased to announce that Jim Rossiter has joined the firm as a partner in its Toronto office. Jim is a trusted senior transactional lawyer with over 25 years’ experience leading high profile acquisitions, divestitures and financings in the US and Canada.

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Duane Morris & Selvam LLP (DM&S) is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Grice has joined the firm in Singapore. The addition of Grice as a director grows the capacity of the corporate practice in Singapore, particularly in advising public and private sector clients on international energy and infrastructure projects and on cross border work throughout Asia, including Japan.

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Linklaters has advised the Trustee of the AstraZeneca Pension Fund on its £2.5 billion Longevity Swap with Deutsche Bank AG, London branch.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is representing UBS and Citigroup in connection with $2.75 billion of bridge financing to support the $5.4 billion acquisition of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) by AerCap Holdings N.V., a leading aircraft leasing company, from insurer American International Group.

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