Husch Blackwell has bolstered its Transportation and Public Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs teams with the addition of Charles D. “Chip” Nottingham as a Partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. As a nationally recognized leader in the transportation industry, he brings 20 years of government relations experience to Husch Blackwell clients.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Robert J. Kenney Jr. has joined the Firm as Partner in the Corporate Litigation group. He is based in the Firm’s New York office.
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The Firm represented NXP Semiconductors N.V. (“NXP”) in connection with a $941 million registered secondary offering of 25,000,000 common shares by certain of its principal stockholders, including affiliates of funds managed or advised by AlpInvest Partners B.V., Apax Partners LLP, Bain Capital Partners, LLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and Silver Lake Technology Management, LLC. The offering closed on September 18, 2013.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPThe Firm represented the underwriters of the initial public offering in Hong Kong and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by China Huishan Dairy Holdings Company Limited (Huishan Dairy). Huishan Dairy offered an aggregate of 3,787,596,000 ordinary shares, which raised approximately HK$10.1 Billion (US$1.3 billion) in gross proceeds for Huishan Dairy and the selling shareholders.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | BeijingSimpson Thacher is representing Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to Applied Materials, Inc. in connection with its execution of a definitive agreement to combine Applied Materials with Tokyo Electron Limited via an all-stock combination which values the new combined company at approximately $29 billion. The new company will have a new name, dual headquarters in Tokyo and Santa Clara, a dual listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, and will be incorporated in The Netherlands.
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Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Timothy W. Moppin has joined the firm as a litigation partner in its San Francisco office. Moppin has 25 years of experience in labor and employment, environmental and construction law.
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Dentons announced today that it will open an office in Houston, underscoring the Firm’s commitment to serving energy clients in the US and worldwide. The Firm currently represents the world’s most significant energy companies in all aspects of their business and in all major energy producing, refining, transport and utilization markets. The new office, Dentons’ 16th US location and 79th globally, builds on the recent combination of Fraser Milner Casgrain, Salans and SNR Denton, leveraging the Firm’s worldwide presence across the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and Africa to serve more than 400 existing clients in Houston.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Helgi Walker has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Formerly co-chair of the appellate practice group at Wiley Rein LLP, she will continue to focus on appellate, regulatory and complex litigation matters.
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Baker & McKenzie is advising THL A21 Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited (“Tencent”), China’s biggest internet group, as transaction counsel on its acquisition of a 36.5 per cent stake in Sogou Inc. (“Sogou”), one of the leading search and internet services provider in China. Sogou’s parent, Nasdaq-listed Sohu.com Inc., (“Sohu”) will remain the controlling shareholder and Sogou will continue to be an independent subsidiary. President Martin Lau and Tencent’s Chief Operating Officer Mark Ren, will join Sogou’s Board of Directors.
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Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBS Securities Inc., as Joint Bookrunning Managers on Reckitt Benckiser’s inaugural US dollar bond offering, in a private placement of US$1 billion aggregate principal amount of notes offered by Reckitt Benckiser Treasury Services plc and guaranteed by Reckitt Benckiser Group plc.
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