Leading global law firm Baker & McKenzie has advised West Africa’s leading cellular telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria, on its largest financing to date.
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VLP Expands Its Commercial Lending Practice with Addition of Patrick Lawler and Jacob Dy-Johnson
VLP Law Group LLP is very pleased to announce that Patrick Lawler and Jacob Dy-Johnson have joined the firm’s Commercial Lending practice. Mr. Lawler joins VLP as a partner from the Corporate Finance group of the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny and Myers. Mr. Dy-Johnson joins VLP as counsel (he was previously in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati).
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Seyfarth Expands California Real Estate Team with San Francisco Partner
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Real Estate partner James O’Brien to the firm’s San Francisco office, continuing the national Real Estate department’s steady growth as the fourth largest Real Estate practice in the United States. O’Brien joins Seyfarth from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, following the recent arrival of a group of six real estate attorneys in Seyfarth’s New York office.
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Paul Hastings Represents Initial Purchasers in $400 Million Note Offering for Sanchez Energy
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Capital One Southcoast, Inc., BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC, BBVA Securities Inc., IBERIA Capital Partners L.L.C., ING Financial Markets LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., SG Americas Securites, LLC and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., as Initial Purchasers, in connection with a $400 million bond offering of 7.75% Senior Notes due 2021 for Sanchez Energy Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
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Linklaters Boosts Pan-Asia Antitrust Practice with Senior Partner Hire
Linklaters today announces that leading antitrust lawyer Clara Ingen-Housz has been elected as a partner in its pan-Asian anti-trust practice, based in Hong Kong. Clara will join from Baker & McKenzie in early October.
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Simpson Thacher Represents J.P. Morgan, Financial Advisor to Gannett, in Gannett’s Announced Acquisition of Belo for Approximately $1.5 Billion
Simpson Thacher is representing J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in its role as financial advisor to Gannett Co., Inc. in connection with Gannett’s announced acquisition of Belo Corp. for $13.75 per share in cash, or approximately $1.5 billion, plus the assumption of existing debt for an enterprise value of approximately $2.2 billion.
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Polsinelli Expands Health Care and National Public Policy Capabilities With Patient Safety Attorney Margaret Binzer
Polsinelli welcomes highly experienced legislative strategist and attorney Margaret “Peggy” Binzer as a shareholder to the firm. With background and experience in patient safety and quality issues on Capitol Hill, Binzer will practice in both the firm’s national Health Care Practice and Public Policy Group. Binzer brings more than 15 years of experience in food and drug law and will focus her practice on matters relating to health care, life sciences and patient safety and quality issues. Polsinelli’s growing Health Care Practice is the fourth largest in the nation and represents health care systems, medical centers and physician practices.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Advises on $630 Million Bendigo Hospital PPP
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the successful bidder, Exemplar Health, on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) to design, build, finance and maintain the Bendigo Hospital.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the successful bidder, Exemplar Health, on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) to design, build, finance and maintain the Bendigo Hospital.
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Willkie Advises Clovis Oncology in $275 Million Offering of Common Stock
On June 11, Willkie client Clovis Oncology, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 3,333,334 shares of its common stock at $72.00 per share. The size of the offering was upsized from $170 million to $240 million. Additionally, the underwriters have exercised a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 486,110 shares of common stock from Clovis Oncology, bringing the total value of the offering to $275 million. J. P. Morgan Securities LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, which is expected to close on June 17.
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