Shearman & Sterling represented Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as joint lead managers in connection with Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia’s issuance of $500 million of its 5.950% notes due 2023.
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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, today announced that Tracy Warren has joined the firm’s San Diego office as a shareholder and Kathryn Quarles Gray has joined as an associate. Warren and Quarles Gray, who join Ogletree Deakins from Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, will bolster the firm’s Sports & Entertainment, Employment Law, and Higher Education practice groups. Warren represents employers in a range of industries including collegiate and amateur athletics, entertainment, financial services, telecommunications, medicine, non-profit, and education. She is the third shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office which opened earlier this year.
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Davis Polk advised Sete Brasil Participações S.A. and Sete International GmbH in connection with a capital call credit facility in the amount of $1.25 billion. The facility will be used to finance the ongoing construction of 21 ultra-deep water drilling rigs to be built in several Brazilian shipyards, each costing approximately $950 million.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | Sao PauloDavis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by The Western Union Company of $250 million aggregate principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2015.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkSmith Haughey Rice & Roegge, PC is excited to announce that the attorneys of the Muskegon based law firm Even & Franks, PLLC (Even & Franks) are joining Smith Haughey.
Dechert LLP announced today that renowned trial lawyer David M. Bernick will join the firm’s litigation practice in New York effective Monday, August 26. Bernick spent more than 30 years with Kirkland & Ellis LLP before leaving to become Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Philip Morris International in 2010.
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Morgan Lewis today announced that environmental litigators John McGahren and Stephanie Feingold have joined the firm as partners in its Litigation Practice, resident in Princeton. Both were formerly lawyers at Patton Boggs.
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The Firm represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in connection with a registered offering by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”) of $400 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.950% Senior Notes due 2020.
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Cleary Gottlieb partner David Gelfand will join the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General under Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer.
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Akerman Senterfitt today announced that it represented XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) in its $365 million acquisition of 3PD Holding, Inc. (3PD). XPO Logistics is one of the fastest growing providers of transportation logistics services in North America, with business units in freight brokerage, expedited transportation and freight forwarding. 3PD is the largest provider of heavy goods, last-mile delivery logistics in North America. The acquisition was financed with the net proceeds of XPO Logistics’ recent $220.5 million public offering of common stock, together with cash on hand. Additional details about the transaction can be found here.
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