The Firm represented Hyundai Rotem Company (“Hyundai Rotem”) in connection with its initial public offering in Korea of 27,060,000 common shares with an offering size of approximately US$585 million. This offering was the largest IPO by a Korean company since 2010.
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Herbert Smith Freehills advised Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC as the placing agent on a US$294 million private placement of new H-shares in Chinese railway power equipment maker Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Company Limited.
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Waller, one of the nation’s preeminent law firms serving the healthcare industry, announced today that veteran healthcare attorney Colin H. Luke has joined the firm as a partner in its Birmingham, Alabama office. Luke, who joins Waller from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, advises healthcare providers in a wide range of regulatory, operations and transactional matters.
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Osborne Clarke has announced the opening of an office in New York, USA.
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James F. Kamp has joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department’s IP Litigation Practice Group. He will be located in Honigman’s Oakland County office. Honigman’s IP practice serves clients locally, nationally and internationally.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS Investment Bank in connection with the financing of the acquisition by private equity firm Centerbridge Partners, L.P. of a 40% interest in, and the related recapitalization of, syncreon Ireland B.V., a specialized provider of integrated logistics services to global industries, which, following the consummation of such transactions, will be indirectly controlled by a fund affiliated with GenNx360 Capital Partners, L.P., investment funds sponsored by Centerbridge and certain other investors.
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Austin IP Boutique Pirkey Barber PLLC is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Kindel, Rebecca Younger and Megan Myers. Founded in 2006 by Louis Pirkey, Bill Barber and Steve Meleen, Pirkey Barber has grown to 18 attorneys and supports some of the most recognizable and valuable brands nationally and abroad.
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Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as joint bookrunners and joint lead arrangers and Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, in connection with a $5.5 billion senior bridge term loan credit facility for McKesson Corporation. The financing is being provided on a “funds certain” basis in accordance with German takeover rules to support McKesson’s takeover offer for Celesio AG.
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Hogan Lovells in conjunction with Indian firm Phoenix Legal has advised Japan’s largest stationery maker KOKUYO Co., Ltd., (Kokuyo) on its acquisition of Riddhi Enterprises (Riddhi), a Mumbai-based notebook manufacturer. The acquisition is anticipated to be made through Kokuyo’s subsidiary KOKUYO S&T Co., Ltd. (Kokuyo S&T) and will result in the creation of KOKUYO Riddhi Paper Products Limited, a new wholly-owned entity based in Mumbai. The transaction was announced on 6 September 2013 and is expected to close in October 2013.
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King & Spalding advised SunTrust Banks, Inc. in an offering of $750 million of 2.35% senior notes due 2018. SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Barclays Capital Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint bookrunners for the offering.
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