Law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) is pleased to announce the addition of ten attorneys to its Jacksonville, Fla. office. Previously with Fowler White Boggs P.A., the group consists of six partners, one of counsel attorney, and three associates practicing in the areas of corporate law, litigation and real estate. SGR’s Jacksonville office now has a total of 31 attorneys.
Cahill Represents Initial Purchasers in $700 Million Notes Offering by Ingles Markets
Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, BB&T Capital Markets, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.75% Senior Notes due 2023 by Ingles Markets, Incorporated, a leading supermarket chain that operates supermarkets across six states in the Southeastern United States. Proceeds from the offering will be used to refinance existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.
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Kirkland & Ellis Represents The Carlyle Group and Integrated Dental Holdings in £400 Million High Yield Notes Offering
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP represented The Carlyle Group and Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), the United Kingdom’s leading provider of dental services, in IDH’s offering of £200 million 6 percent senior secured fixed rate notes due 2018, £125 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2018 and £75 million 8 1/2 percent second lien notes due 2019. The net proceeds of the offering, which closed on May 30, 2013, were used to refinance IDH’s existing debt, including the repayment of certain shareholder loans.
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Liza Mark Tapped by Haynes and Boone to Lead New Shanghai Office
Liza Mark, a veteran lawyer of more than 14 years, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP and will serve as the administrative partner in its recently announced Shanghai office.
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Thompson Hine’s Atlanta Office Adds Two Lateral Partners – Litigation and Corporate Partners Bolster Growing Office
Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Roy E. Hadley, Jr. and John L. Watkins and have joined the firm’s Atlanta office as partners in the Corporate Transactions & Securities and Business Litigation practice groups, respectively.
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Paul Hastings Represents Underwriters in Wuzhou International’s Hong Kong IPO
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented BOCOM International (Asia) Limited and Macquarie Capital Securities Limited as the joint sponsors, BOCOM International Securities Limited and Macquarie Capital Securities Limited as the joint global coordinators, and BOCOM International Securities Limited, First Shanghai Securities Limited, GF Securities (Hong Kong) Brokerage Limited and Macquarie Capital Securities Limited as the joint bookrunners and joint lead managers in Wuzhou International Holdings Limited’s (“Wuzhou International”) US$178 million global initial public offering and listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong KongPaul Hastings Advising Gannett on $2.2 Billion Merger with Belo
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is advising Gannett Co., Inc., an international media and marketing solutions company, in connection with its merger with Belo Corp., a leading broadcast television company with twenty network-affiliated stations. The transaction is valued at approximately $2.2 billion and would make Gannett the fourth-largest owner of “Big 4” major television network affiliates in the country, reaching nearly one-third of U.S. households.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | New YorkPaul Hastings Advises Centerline Holding Company in connection with acquisition by Hunt Companies, Inc.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Centerline Holding Company, provider of real estate financing and asset management services focused on affordable and conventional multifamily housing, in connection with its agreement entered into on June 10, 2013 to be acquired by an affiliate of Hunt Capital Partners, LLC, the affordable housing division and an affiliate of real estate company, Hunt Companies, Inc. (“Hunt”).
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Steven W. Pelak, Former Export Control Enforcement and Counterespionage Official for the U.S. Department of Justice, Joins Holland & Hart
Holland & Hart LLP is pleased to announce that Steven W. Pelak, former Principal Deputy Chief of the Counterespionage Section, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is joining the firm’s trade sanctions and white collar practice. Pelak will be a partner resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
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Nixon Peabody Advises Gannett in $1.5 Billion Acquisition; Transaction Would Nearly Double Company’s Television Operations
Gannett Co., Inc., has agreed to buy Belo Corp. for $1.5 billion in cash, in a deal that almost doubles Gannett’s television operations.
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