Global law firm K&L Gates has added three new partners in its Australian offices. In Melbourne, Nick Ruskin joins the labor, employment and workplace safety practice from DLA Piper, while both Edward Nixey and Glenn Hughes join the firm’s Sydney office as partners in the corporate and transactional practice, arriving from Ashurst and Henry Davis York, respectively.
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The Firm recently represented Wells Fargo in connection with an aggregate $1.3 billion of revolving credit facilities including the $715.0 million revolving credit facility for EnerVest Preferred Holdings XIII, L.P., the $10.0 million revolving credit facility for EnerVest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-WIC, L.P., and the $575.0 million revolving credit facility for EnerVest Institutional Fund XIII-A, L.P. EnerVest is one of the 25 largest oil and gas companies in the United States, with more than 27,000 wells across 16 states, 5.4 million acres under lease and more than $6 billion in proved and probable reserves.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | HoustonSimpson Thacher is representing Hellman & Friedman in the acquisition of Hub International Limited in a transaction that values Hub International at approximately $4.4 billion.
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Walter Keneally has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Energy Practice Group.
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Morrison & Foerster today announced that Mark Wojciechowski, a highly regarded finance lawyer with more than three decades of experience handling complex financing and M&A transactions for commercial and investment banks, investment funds and public and private companies, has joined the Financial Transactions Group in New York as a partner.
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Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 8.5% notes due 2020 by AngloGold Ashanti Holdings plc, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AngloGold Ashanti).
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPDavis Polk advised underwriters represented by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with a public offering by International Business Machines Corporation of $1.5 billion principal amount of its 3.375% notes due 2023 and $650 million principal amount of its floating rate notes due 2015.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering by The Travelers Companies, Inc. of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.6% senior notes due 2043.
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Offit Kurman welcomes three new attorneys to its litigation practice. Attorneys Philip W. Vogler, Adam R. Brownstein and Michael K. Haley are commercial litigators with, combined, more than fifty years of experience representing and advising clients as litigating counsel and coordinating counsel. Their group has significant experience representing clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in complex multi-jurisdictional matters. Also joining the firm as part of their group are two paralegals and two support staff.
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Phillips Nizer is pleased to announce that Regina E. Faul has joined the firm as a partner in the Labor & Employment Law and Litigation Practice Groups. Ms. Faul will continue to represent employers and business owners in all aspects of their employee relations and compliance matters in state and federal courts, arbitrations, during collective bargaining negotiations and before the United States National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She will work closely with the Firm’s partners and the Chair of its Labor & Employment Group, Marc B. Zimmerman.
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