RHTLaw Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the addition of Mr Gerard Ng as a Partner in our Banking and Finance Practice with effect from 15 July 2013.
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Paul Hastings Represents Wells Fargo in $200 Million Credit Facility for Flatonia Energy, LLC
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 $200,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Flatonia Energy, LLC.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | HoustonPaul Hastings Represents Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company in $223 Million Common Stock Offering
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a closed-end investment company, in an underwritten, overnight, public offering of 6,200,000 shares of common stock in the amount of $223 million which closed on March 15, 2013.
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Experienced Trial Lawyer Leslie Davis Joins Chicago Office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Accomplished litigator Leslie D. Davis joins Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP today as a partner in the firm’s national Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Leslie is the fourth lateral partner to join the firm’s Chicago office this year, following the arrival of former Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Collins to Drinker Biddle’s White Collar Team, and Theodore Becker and Frances LaFleur to the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group.
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Morgan Lewis Advises Food Distributor Nash Finch on $1.3B Merger with Spartan Stores
Leading regional grocery distributor and retailer Spartan Stores and one of the leading food distribution companies in the U.S., Nash Finch Company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spartan Stores and Minneapolis-based Nash Finch will combine in an all-stock merger valued at approximately $1.3 billion, including existing net debt at each company.
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Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm Advise on Saudi Binladin Group’s Financing for the King Abdulaziz International Airport
Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners have advised BNP Paribas Investment Company KSA and GIB Capital LLC (GIB Capital) in their roles as joint lead managers and bookrunners on the issuance by SBG Sukuk Limited of its fourth short-term sukuk al-murabaha, guaranteed by Saudi Binladin Group Limited (SBG). The financing is part of an approximately SAR12 billion financing of one of the phases of construction and development of the King Abdulaziz International Airport.
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Winstead Welcomes Shareholders Timothy Ryan and Will Walker
Law firm Winstead PC welcomes finance and banking attorneys Timothy R. Ryan and Will Walker. Previously partners at Mayer Brown, Ryan and Walker bring decades of experience serving both domestic and foreign banks and financial institutions in a variety of financing and syndicated loan transactions. Both Ryan and Walker are shareholders in Winstead’s reputable finance and banking practice group.
Tags: Winstead PC3iP Practice Group Expands with Addition of Pribisich and Rothrock
Benesch is pleased to announce that partner Risto Pribisich and associate Lindsey Rothrock have joined the firm’s Innovations, Information Technology & Intellectual Property (3iP) Practice Group.
King & Spalding Advises Roark Capital in Its Acquisition of Miller’s Ale House Restaurant Chain
King & Spalding advised Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm specializing in franchising, in the acquisition through an affiliate company of Ale House Holdings, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in R$1,065,000,000 Debentures Offering by Concessionária Rodovias do Tietê S.A.
The Firm recently represented BTG Pactual US Capital LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BES Investimento do Brasil S.A. – Banco de Investimento and Safra Securities LLC, as agents of the Brazilian underwriters Banco BTG Pactual S.A., Banco ABC Brasil S.A., BES Investimento do Brasil S.A. – Banco de Investimento, Banco J. Safra S.A. and Banco Morgan Stanley S.A., in connection with a R$1,065,000,000 offering of IPCA plus 8.00% Debentures due 2028 by Concessionária Rodovias do Tietê S.A. The Debentures are governed by Brazilian law and were structured to be qualified as “Infrastructure Debentures” pursuant to Brazilian Law No. 12,431, which provides some tax benefits to holders of such Infrastructure Debentures, including an income tax rate of 0% for certain persons residing abroad and for natural persons domiciled in Brazil, The offering was publicly registered in Brazil and made to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.
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