Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Virgin Australia Holdings Limited on its ground breaking US$797.2 million enhanced equipment note offering, the first of its kind in Asia Pacific. The offering closed on 22 October.
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Pillsbury today announced that Matthew Morrison has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources practice. He has almost 25 years of experience in this area, most recently serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics, and Training at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as the prior Acting Director and Associate Director of the Air Enforcement Division of EPA’s Office of Civil Enforcement. Prior to that, Morrison served for over a dozen years as a trial and then supervising attorney in the environmental enforcement office at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Celeste R. Yeager as a shareholder to the firm’s Dallas office. Yeager, previously a partner with Gardere and vice chair of its Hospitality Industry Team, brings a comprehensive labor and employment litigation and counseling practice to Littler.
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Nationally recognized trademark attorney Mark N. Mutterperl has joined the New York office of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP as a partner. He will serve as a leader in the firm’s national brand protection practice and strengthen the firm’s IP litigation practice.
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Cravath represented the initial purchasers, led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Securities, Mizuho Securities and Rabo Securities USA Inc., in connection with the US$3 billion 144A/Reg. S debt offering of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of gum and a leader in the non‑chocolate confections category. The proceeds from the offering were used to repay borrowings from Mars, Incorporated, fees and expenses related to other refinancing transactions and general corporate purposes. The transaction closed on October 21, 2013.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named Effie D. Silva as a partner in its Trial Practice Group, based in Miami.
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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that David G. Mallen, the deputy director of the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and an experienced attorney in the areas of advertising and consumer protection law, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Mallen brings with him nearly 15 years of experience from NAD, the advertising industry’s self–regulatory body, which investigates and adjudicates issues relating to truth and accuracy in advertising.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Grupo Lala, Mexico’s largest dairy company and one of the leading dairy companies in Latin America, in completing its $1.1 billion initial public offering of common stock. The offering is the largest IPO of the year from Latin America.
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Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its San Francisco office and nationally recognized Intellectual Property and Complex Litigation practices with the addition of patent litigation partner Imran Khaliq. As a key advisor to leading telecom, tech, and medical device companies, Mr. Khaliq represents top brands in patent disputes involving mobile devices, software, biotechnology and medical devices, GPS technologies, semiconductors, and Internet based technologies.
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The national law firm of Epstein Becker Green is expanding its efforts to help clients navigate increasingly complex Medicare, Medicaid, and related public health programs affected by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with the addition of three former executives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), all of whom most recently worked at Dentons law firm in Washington, D.C.
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