Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC, announced the addition of Tram N. Nguyen as a partner in the firm’s Private Funds group. Ms. Nguyen is resident in Stroock’s DC office, where she joins Robert E. Plaze, who before founding that office as a partner, was the Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management.
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Joseph E. “Jay” Spruill, formerly of Reed Smith, has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Community Banking Practice Area and Banking Industry teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Richmond Riverfront office.
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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 $600,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Sequitur Energy Resources, LLC.
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William Alden McDaniel, Jr., an accomplished litigator with more than 30 years of experience trying cases in federal and state courts and handling appeals in jurisdictions throughout the country, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in Baltimore, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today.
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The national law firm of Epstein Becker Green expands its presence with the recent addition of Alan J. Arville, who joins the firm as a Member in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice.
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Dechert represented OCI Resources LP on its master limited partnership initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the New York Stock Exchange on September 13, 2013. The initial public offering of 5,000,000 common units represents limited partner interests in the Partnership at a public offering price of $19.00 per common unit.
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Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Yong Ren has joined the firm’s global Private Investment Funds group as a partner, resident in the Beijing office. Mr. Ren’s extensive private equity fund formation experience, representing both general and limited partners throughout Asia, will further expand the reach of Proskauer’s preeminent private investment funds practice and presence in Asia.
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced that it has represented the underwriters in the largest corporate debt offering on record – Verizon Communication’s $49 billion bond sale to fund the company’s purchase of Vodafone Group PLC’s interest in Verizon Wireless.
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Davis Polk is advising Sterling Financial Corporation in connection with its $2 billion merger with Umpqua Holdings Corporation. The transaction, which is subject to approval by each company’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close during the first half of 2014.
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Thompson Coburn has added two partners to its employee benefits practice. Mark S. Weisberg and Linda Lemel Hoseman joined the firm’s 62-attorney Chicago office from Winston & Strawn LLP on Sept. 3.
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