Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised ADR – Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A. – the company which manages Rome airport, on the launch of its €1.5 billion EMTN programme and inaugural issuance of €600 million 3.250 percent Senior Unsecured Notes.

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Weil is representing Earthbound Farm, one of the country’s leading organic food brands, in its acquisition by The WhiteWave Foods Company, a leading consumer packaged food and beverage company in North America and Europe, from its existing shareholders led by Kainos Capital and founders Drew and Myra Goodman. The transaction is valued at approximately $600 million.

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Shearman & Sterling advised Astaldi S.p.A. on its offer, completed December 4, of €500,000,000 7.125% Senior Notes due 2020, and on its additional offer, completed December 9, of €100,000,000 7.125% Senior Notes due 2020. The Notes have been admitted to be listed on the Official List of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Euro MTF market on their closing dates. The Notes are senior obligations of the Issuer and are not guaranteed and have been offered only to qualified investors outside the United States of America pursuant to Regulation S under the US Securities Act, and to qualified institutional buyers, within the meaning of Rule 144A under the US Securities Act.

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Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (“BKL”) advised Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. (“Hankook Tire”), the world’s seventh-largest tire company by sales, in connection with an investment incentive agreement and a tax incentive agreement with the state government of Tennessee to build its first tire manufacturing facility in the United States. This new tire plant will be located in Clarksville, Tennessee and, upon full completion, is expected to produce about 11 million tires annually. The incentive agreements were signed on October 14, 2013.

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Covington & Burling is pleased to announce that Gary Guzy, most recently deputy director and general counsel of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and a former general counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency, is joining the firm’s environmental, clean energy, public policy, and government affairs practices.

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A Weil team, led by New York partners Morgan Bale and Matthew Bloch, advised Goldman Sachs in connection with providing committed bridge financing (and related matters) backing the acquisition by Sysco Corporation of US Foods, Inc., uniting two of the biggest food distributors in the country. The transaction will give US Foods’ current owners, the investment firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a roughly 13 percent stake in the combined company. Including the assumption of US Foods’ debt, the transaction is valued at $8.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close by the third quarter next year, pending antitrust approval.

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Shearman & Sterling represented BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and The Bank Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as joint lead arrangers and joint book managers in connection with a $13 billion financing, a $4.334 million 364-day credit facility, a $4.333 million 3-year credit facility and a $4.333 million 5-year credit facility for Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and some of its affiliates.

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Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Rob Kovacev, a former senior litigation counsel in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Tax Division, has joined the firm as a partner.  Mr. Kovacev’s arrival continues the expansion of Steptoe’s Tax Group, which welcomed partner Bob Rizzi in October.

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Vedder Price is pleased to announce that Scott H. Olson has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice group today as a Shareholder in the firm’s San Francisco office.

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