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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Gunster, one of Florida’s oldest and largest full-service business law firms, is pleased to announce that Gregory M. Munson, an attorney and former deputy secretary for water policy with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, will join the firm as a shareholder in its Tallahassee office on September 23.
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Miles & Stockbridge P.C. continues the strategic expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice with the addition of seven lawyers and a patent agent. On August 26th, the firm will welcome Susan McBee, Chester Moore, and David Woodward as principals; Richard Henderson as of counsel; Bryan Jones and David Vanik as counsel; and Shazi Jiang as an associate. All were previously with the Washington, D.C. office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC. William Brett Stauffer, a registered patent agent, will also join the firm.
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