Wiley Rein is pleased to announce that John B. (Jay) Watkins has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate Practice. At Wiley Rein, he will advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and financing and capital formation transactions for private equity and other investment funds and for public and private companies.
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Angeli C. Aragon has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology and Labor and Employment Practice Area teams. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Los Angeles office.
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On October 30, 2013, a U.K. and a U.S. affiliate of Rolls-Royce plc jointly issued $700 million of their senior secured notes in five series (comprised of fixed and floating rate notes) to a group of 21 institutional investors, including New York Life, MetLife, TIAA-CREF and Prudential, among others. Willkie represented the investors in connection with the private placement.
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Pryor Cashman LLP is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Alberts has joined the firm as a partner and leader of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice. He joins Pryor Cashman from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he served for six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division and played a key role in the Asset Forfeiture Unit.
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Morrison & Foerster has represented an affiliate of Global Logistic Properties Limited, Asia’s largest provider of modern logistics facilities, in the formation of the world’s largest China-focused logistics infrastructure fund. The fund has been formed for the primary purpose of developing, owning and managing a diversified portfolio of institutional quality logistics facilities within target markets in the People’s Republic of China.
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Cravath represented Lazard in connection with its US$500 million registered offering of senior notes due 2020. Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. The transaction closed on November 14, 2013.
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Holland & Knight represented Eletson Holdings, who with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, formed a new joint venture, Eletson Gas, a $700 million liquefied petroleum (LPG)/ liquefied ethylene (LEG) gas shipping company. Eletson Gas will have one of the world’s newest and largest LPG/LEG fleets, majority-owned by Eletson and operated and managed by Eletson Holdings subsidiaries. New York partner Jovi Tenev led the Holland & Knight team in the representation.
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Elizabeth R. Murray has rejoined Frost Brown Todd’s Cincinnati office in the firm’s Personal and Succession Planning practice area. In her practice, Murray will serve clients in the area of domestic relations including divorce, dissolution, prenuptial agreements, adoptions, custody issues, post decree matters, child and spousal support, grandparents’ rights, visitation and collaborative law. She is also a certified mediator.
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Davis Polk is advising Telecom Italia S.p.A. on its $960 million sale of its entire controlling interest in Telecom Argentina to Fintech Telecom LLC, an affiliate of Fintech Advisory, Inc.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by ServiceNow, Inc. of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $75 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association and RBC Capital Markets, LLC as counterparties to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the convertible notes offering.
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