Cahill Represents Underwriters in Secondary Offering of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Ordinary Shares

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Cahill represented UBS Investment Bank and Barclays as book-running managers and the other underwriters in connection with the secondary public offering of 23,000,000 ordinary shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: NCLH) by Star NCLC Holdings Ltd. and certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC and TPG Global, LLC, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $684,250,000 to the selling shareholders. Norwegian did not sell any ordinary shares in the offering and did not receive any of the proceeds from the offering.

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Lowenstein Represents Tower International in Connection with $160 Million Secondary Offering and Repricing of Term Loan Facility

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Lowenstein represented Tower International, Inc. (NYSE: TOWR) and Tower International Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., in connection with a $160 million SEC-registered secondary offering of 7,888,122 shares of Tower International, Inc.’s common stock by Tower International Holdings, LLC, at a price to the public of $21.25 per share. The Lowenstein team was led by Robert G. Minion, Peter H. Ehrenberg and Michael J. Reinhardt and included attorneys Brian A. Silikovitz, Alison S. Fraser and Kate Basmagian.

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Sheppard Mullin Continues Expansion with Addition of Three Bay Area Partners

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Peter H. Carson, Lorna L. Tanner and Stephanie L. Zeppa have joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners.  Carson joins the firm’s San Francisco office, as a member of the Finance and Bankruptcy practice group.  Tanner and Zeppa join the firm’s Palo Alto office, as members of the Intellectual Property practice group and Corporate practice group, respectively.  Carson joins from Bingham McCutchen, where he was a member of the Transactional Finance practice and co-chaired the Healthcare Industry Group.  Tanner joins from Foley & Lardner and Zeppa joins from Dentons.

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Skadden Adds Class Action Defense Attorney Lisa Gilford in Los Angeles

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that class action and products liability trial attorney Lisa Gilford has joined the firm’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group in Los Angeles. Ms. Gilford most recently served as co-chair of the products liability group in the Los Angeles office of another highly regarded law firm, where she represented companies in the automotive, telecommunications, life science, chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries on every level of significant mass tort litigation in federal and state courts across the nation.

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Clifford Chance Advises HSBC on Sale of Group Term Life and Employee Benefits Businesses in Singapore to AXA Life

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, on the sale of its group term life and employee benefits business in Singapore to AXA Life Insurance Singapore Private Limited and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), another wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, on the related distribution agreement.

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Freshfields Advises on Eskom’s $1bn Bond Issue

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised on South African power utility Eskom’s $1bn bond, issued under Eskom’s newly established $4bn global medium term programme. Eskom generates, transmits and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural and residential customers and redistributors across southern Africa.

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