Cravath represented the initial purchasers, Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, and J.P. Morgan Securities, in connection with the US$640 million 144A/Reg. S high‑yield senior debt offering of Level 3 Financing, Inc., guaranteed by Level 3 Communications, Inc., a facilities‑based provider of a broad range of integrated communications systems. The transaction closed on November 14, 2013.
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Akerman LLP, a leading law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that Israel (“Izzy”) Alfonso has joined Akerman as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group in Miami. He joins the firm from Greenberg Traurig and is the fifth partner to join Akerman’s national Real Estate Practice Group since June and the 17th lawyer to join the Practice Group during the past twelve months.
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Seyfarth Shaw announced today the arrival of veteran labor and employment lawyer Lawrence Lorber, who was the head of Proskauer’s Washington, D.C. employment practice immediately prior to joining Seyfarth.
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Fisher & Phillips LLP announced today that Bob Robenalt has joined the firm’s Columbus, Ohio, office as a partner, bringing a 25-year practice that focuses on employment litigation, traditional labor matters and workers’ compensation. He had been a partner with the firm of Ice Miller LLP.
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Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Statoil ASA of $4 billion principal amount of notes guaranteed by its operating subsidiary, Statoil Petroleum AS. The offering consisted of $750 million principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2018, $750 million principal amount of 1.95% notes due 2018, $750 million principal amount of 2.9% notes due 2020, $1 billion principal amount of 3.7% notes due 2024 and $750 million principal amount of 4.8% notes due 2043.
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Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP has recruited a litigation group to join its expanding D.C. office. Bonnie Hochman Rothell has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice and will be joined by an associate and paralegal. She will work closely with the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Finance/Lending practices.
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Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to welcome two new litigators to its Sacramento office. Andy Stroud, who joins as a partner, is well-known in civil, commercial and federal litigation, as well as intellectual property litigation. Landon Bailey joins our firm as an associate. In addition, Erin Sedloff joins the San Francisco office as a new litigation associate.
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Pre-eminent commercial litigator Janet Whiting will join Gilbert + Tobin to lead the firm’s litigation practice in Melbourne.
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Linklaters has advised the underwriters Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Halk Yatirim on Emlak Konut’s $1.6 billion secondary public offering, which has announced today. This is not only the largest share offering in Turkey in 2013, it is also the largest primary offering of shares across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa region this year. It is also the largest share offering in the real estate sector in Europe in more than five years.
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