International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has represented Edwards Group Limited, as co-counsel with Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP, on its takeover by Atlas Copco. Edwards, the Crawley, UK-headquartered developer and manufacturer of vacuum products, abatement systems and related value-added services, has entered in to a definitive merger agreement with Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco AB, which has leading positions in compressors, expanders and air treatment systems, construction and mining equipment, power tools and assembly systems.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced the addition of George Baptista as a partner in its Banking & Finance practice and Latin America group in New York. He joins from Allen & Overy in New York, where he was senior counsel in the International Capital Markets Group.

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Shearman & Sterling represented Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and TD Securities (USA) LLC, as joint book-running managers, BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., CIBC World Markets Corp., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., as senior co-managers, and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., as co-managers, in connection with Cenovus Energy Inc.’s $800 million offering consisting of $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.800% notes due 2023 and $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.200% notes due 2043.

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