Global law firm White & Case LLP is strengthening its practice in Africa with three new partners in its Johannesburg office and the relocation of two partners from its London office.
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Davis Polk Advises L Brands on Its $500 Million Notes Offering
Davis Polk advised L Brands, Inc. in connection with its SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.625% senior notes due 2023. The notes are guaranteed by certain subsidiaries of L Brands, Inc. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC were the joint book-running managers.
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Troutman Sanders Expands Financial Services Litigation Practice with the Addition of Partners in San Diego and Washington, DC Chad Fuller and Victoria Holstein-Childress Bring Deep Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Experience
Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce that Chad Fuller and Victoria Holstein-Childress have joined the firm as partners in the Financial Services Litigation practice. Fuller practices in the firm’s San Diego office, and Holstein-Childress practices in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
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Baker Botts Represents Energy Spectrum Partners VI LP in the Establishment of Azure Midstream Holdings LLC to Acquire TGGT Holdings, LLC
EXCO Resources, Inc. (NYSE:XCO) (“EXCO”) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, EXCO Operating Company, LP (“EOC”), and an affiliate of BG Group plc (“BG Group”) have entered into a definitive agreement to convey 100% of the equity interest in TGGT Holdings, LLC(“TGGT”) to Azure Midstream Holdings LLC (“Azure”) for an aggregate sales price of approximately $910 million.
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Perkins Coie Represents T-Mobile in $5.6 Billion Secondary Debt Transaction
Perkins Coie represented client T-Mobile US, Inc. in a $5.6 billion secondary offering of senior unsecured notes by its majority stockholder, Deutsche Telekom AG. The deal closed October 16 and is, according to media reports, the second-largest high-yield debt transaction of the year. It is also the eighth-largest speculative-grade deal on record, or the fifth-largest when counting deals sold entirely at one time. (Source: Forbes)
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Akerman Senterfitt Adds Joseph Landolfi to Tax Practice Group
Joseph Landolfi has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the firm’s Tax Practice Group in Boca Raton.
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Baker & McKenzie Advises Hungary’s Largest Energy Group on Billion Dollar Gas Deal
Baker & McKenzie Budapest has advised state-owned Hungarian Electricity Works on its acquisition of German utility E.On’s entire Hungarian gas business, including gas trade and gas storage businesses. Completion of this deal sees a significant part of the energy sector re-nationalized, following privatization in the late 1990s.
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Hogan Lovells Advises on Restructuring of US$1 billion Chinese Real Estate Development Fund
Hogan Lovells has advised the general partner of Trophy Property Development L.P. (the “Fund” or “Trophy Property“) on a restructuring of the Fund’s underlying real estate assets in China, and its internal management (the “Restructuring“).
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Jerold B. Schnayer Joins Locke Lord’s IP Litigation Practice Group as Partner in Chicago Office
Jerold B. Schnayer, a well-known intellectual property lawyer, has joined Locke Lord’s Chicago office as a Partner in the IP Litigation Practice Group.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Advises Boral on USG Joint Venture
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Boral Limited on its US$1.6 billion 50/50 plasterboard and ceilings joint venture with USG Corporation (announced 17 October 2013). The transaction combines USG’s best-in-class building products technologies and strategic assets in Asia, New Zealand and the Middle East with Boral’s leading plasterboard manufacturing and distribution footprint in Asia and Australia.
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