Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced that Aled Davies, a leading project finance lawyer known for his work on large-scale infrastructure and energy projects around the world, will be joining the firm as a partner in the Tokyo office effective September 1 and in so doing will become a member of Milbank’s Global Project Finance group.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Grupo Famsa, S.A.B. de C.V., a leading company in the Mexican retail and finance sectors, in connection with its international issuance of high-yield debt securities. The offering was underwritten by Credit Suisse and Citigroup and involved the issuance of $250 million of 7.250% Senior Notes due 2020 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. This transaction marks the first international notes offering by Grupo Famsa since 2010.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Thomas A. Lorenzen has joined the Regulatory Affairs group in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner. Mr. Lorenzen joins Dorsey from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he has been an Assistant Chief since 2004. During that time, he supervised the federal government’s legal defense of all Environmental Protection Agency rules, regulations and other final actions judicially reviewable under the various federal pollution control statutes.
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Osborne Clarke has expanded its international organisation, with a ten-strong team opening an office in Brussels. With the addition of Brussels Osborne Clarke’s international organisation now has 14 offices in six jurisdictions. The team will be joined by members of OC’s EU Regulatory team, which will use the office as a base.
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Gilbert + Tobin advised the issuer, iSelect, on its $215 million initial public offering at $1.85 per share, which implies a market capitalisation for iSelect of approximately $480 million.
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Husch Blackwell welcomes Kevin P. McCart as a Partner in the Washington, D.C., office. McCart joins the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Compliance, Investigations & Litigation groups.
Tags: Husch Blackwell LLPKaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Dean B. Herman, who has more than 30 years of experience in insurance industry and business litigation, and Hee Young Lee, who has represented insurers and policyholders for more than a decade, have joined the firm as partners in its Los Angeles office. They will be accompanied by Craig D. Aronson as senior counsel and Steven S. Son, Andrew C. Johnson and Mikhaile P. Savary as associates.
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Jordan N. Uditsky has joined Pedersen & Houpt as a Partner in the Real Estate and Financing Practice Group. He brings a wealth of experience to Pedersen as both a lawyer and an entrepreneur. He has been advising clients in a wide range of commercial real estate and business transactions for almost 15 years and delivers a unique perspective through his personal experience as the owner and general counsel of a multi-million dollar manufacturing company. Jordan received his J.D. in 1998 from Chicago-Kent College of Law and his B.S. in 1993 from the University of Iowa.
Tags: Pedersen & Houpt, P.C.Law firm McCarter & English, LLP is pleased to announce that Simone Wilson-Brito has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate practice in Newark. Since 2008, Wilson-Brito was real estate counsel with Rockefeller Group Development Corporation (RGDC), a national owner, developer, and manager of prestigious commercial real estate properties in New York City and throughout the United States. Her practice will focus primarily on complex commercial real estate transactions with a concentration in the financing, leasing and acquisition of real property.
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with the secondary offering of 17,250,000 shares of common stock of Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. sold by a selling stockholder, an affiliate of the Carlyle Group, for an aggregate price to the public of $276 million. Wesco Aircraft’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WAIR.”
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