Lawyer M.J. Pritchett has taken a new job with Arent Fox in San Francisco. The partner, who joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, focuses his legal practice on Real Estate matters. Pritchett has extensive experience in acquisition, disposition, secured lending, public finance, leasing, and more.
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Michael Saslaw, one of the leading corporate lawyers in Dallas, has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it is advised the underwriters on LinkedIn Corp.’s follow-on offering of 5.55 million shares of Class A common stock worth approximately $1.25 billion.
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Maria Luisa Canovas has joined the New York Officeof global law firm Jones Day as a partner in the M&A Practice. She was formerly a partner in the New York office of Hogan Lovells.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Marcus Christian has joined the firm in Washington, DC as a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and White Collar Defense & Compliance group. Previously, he was the Executive Assistant United States Attorney at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, the third-highest ranking position in one of America’s largest and busiest offices of federal prosecutors. In this role, Mr. Christian worked on the senior management team with responsibility for the Criminal, Civil, Appellate, Asset Forfeiture and Administrative Divisions.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent, in connection with a $750,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Parsley Energy, L.P.
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On September 10, 2013, IBM and SYNNEX Corporation announced a definitive agreement in which SYNNEX will acquire IBM’s worldwide customer care business process outsourcing services business for $505 million, consisting of approximately $430 million in cash and $75 million in stock. Cravath represented IBM in connection with this transaction.
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Chapman and Cutler LLP is pleased to announce that Michael Friedman, Larry G. Halperin, Joon P. Hong, and Nicholas A. Whitney, formerly of Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP, joined the firm as partners, located in the New York office.
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Earlier this year, Hong Kong property developer and long-standing client of the firm, Wing Tai Properties Limited, engaged Herbert Smith Freehills for advice on a US$464 million (HK$3.6 billion) financing deal for the development of a 318,076 sqft. residential development in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Following the successful closing of that transaction in March, the firm was again instructed to advise on another of the developer’s financing transaction—a US$224 million (HK$1.74 billion) financing for a plot of land adjacent to the client’s initial purchase in Sha Tin. The lender on both transactions—Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited—was advised by Mayer Brown JSM.
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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, and RBC Capital Markets as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in connection with the public offering of $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.75% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2018 by Ally Financial Inc. Proceeds from the offering will be used to redeem certain outstanding debt securities.
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