Linklaters has advised the underwriters Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Halk Yatirim on Emlak Konut’s $1.6 billion secondary public offering, which has announced today. This is not only the largest share offering in Turkey in 2013, it is also the largest primary offering of shares across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa region this year. It is also the largest share offering in the real estate sector in Europe in more than five years.
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Shearman & Sterling advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and TD Securities as arrangers and bookmanagers in connection with a $1 billion cross-border financing for TransCanada Pipeline USA Ltd.
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Marking the beginning of its expansion into Northern California—the center of the nation’s high-technology industry and home to seven of the top 10 patent-producing cities—AmLaw100 firm Pepper Hamilton LLP today opened the doors of its new Silicon Valley office. The office will complement Pepper’s two existing California offices and give its top-notch Intellectual Property Department deeper roots on the West Coast.
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Carl Riley has joined the international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, as a shareholder in its Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) and Tax practices in New York. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Riley practiced at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York.
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Davis Polk is advising Shire plc in connection with its approximately $4.2 billion acquisition of ViroPharma Incorporated. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the tender of a majority of the outstanding ViroPharma shares and the receipt of regulatory clearances. Pending antitrust authority clearances, it is anticipated that the transaction will close in the last quarter of 2013, the first quarter of 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.
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Winston & Strawn LLP has announced Jared A. Hershberg has joined the firm’s New York office as a private equity partner in the corporate practice.
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Aaron Cooper, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s chief counsel for intellectual property and antitrust law, is joining Covington & Burling where he is expected to play a pivotal role in the firm’s global public policy and government affairs practice.
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The Firm is representing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. in connection with its acquisition of The Brickman Group, Ltd. LLC (“Brickman”) for $1.6 billion from Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. and other shareholders. The investment is being made by KKR North American Fund XI and other funds and accounts managed by KKR. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2013.
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Baker & McKenzie acted as counsel to DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited, in its capacity as the trustee of Hui Xian Real Estate Investment Trust (“Hui Xian REIT”), on the HK$1,525 million term loan facility for Hui Xian REIT. The term loan facility will be used to fund the repayment of existing loan facilities and for general corporate funding needs, including financing future acquisitions.
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Akerman LLP, a leading law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the continued growth of its Labor & Employment Practice Group with Laura Prather. Prather has joined Akerman as a partner in the Tampa office where she brings nearly two decades of trial experience representing management in all facets of labor and employment law, enhancing Akerman’s capabilities in complex litigation and class actions.
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