Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Timothy C. Langenkamp, a capital markets lawyer with extensive experience in energy transactions, has joined the firm as a partner. He is resident in the firm’s Houston office and a member of its Securities/Capital Markets practice group. This addition continues the expansion of Sidley’s Houston office and further enhances the firm’s energy-focused capital markets team.
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True Religion Apparel, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., the New York and London-based investment management firm, in a transaction valued at approximately $835 million.
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On April 25, a Jenner & Block team representing Obagi Medical Products closed a $441 million cash tender offer for Obagi by Montreal-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. Obagi is a California-based specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and is a leading provider of proprietary topical aesthetic and therapeutic prescription-strength skin care systems in the physician-dispensed market.
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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that J. Andrew Jackson has joined the Washington Office as a partner in the Firm’s Government Regulation Practice. Formerly a partner in Dickstein Shapiro LLP’s Washington office, Mr. Jackson has served as a U.S. Department of Justice trial lawyer in False Claims Act and government contract litigation.
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Kirkland & Ellis represents J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited, CITIC Securities Corporate Finance (HK) Limited, UBS AG, Hong Kong Branch, and Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners and China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited, Merrill Lynch International, Merrill Lynch Far East Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong Branch, BOCOM International Securities Limited, CMB International Capital Limited and BOCI Asia Limited as the other joint bookrunners in a global offering, including the initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, of SINOPEC Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd., the leading oil refining, petrochemical and new coal chemical engineering company in China.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Macquarie Capital (Australia) Limited (Macquarie) in relation to its role as sole bookrunner, lead manager and underwriter for Mirvac Group’s (Mirvac) A$400 million fully underwritten institutional placement, announced on Friday, 10 May 2013. Mirvac has also announced an intention to launch a non-underwritten security purchase plan for up to $15,000 per eligible securityholder. The proceeds from the issue will be used to fund Mirvac’s acquisition of a select portfolio of office assets from GE Real Estate Investments Australia.
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Ship finance partner Brian P. Devine has joined the New York office of leading US law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Brian’s appointment comes ahead of Fulbright’s combination with international legal practice Norton Rose on 3 June 2013, to form Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Stoel Rives LLP, a leading U.S. business law firm, is pleased to announce that Tina Grovier has joined its Anchorage office as a partner in the firm’s Environment, Land Use and Natural Resources group. Grovier is recognized as a leading oil, gas and mining lawyer. During her 15-year career she has helped secure federal and state permits for the first non-conditional state right-of-way for a North Slope natural gas pipeline, Alaska’s first heap leach facility, Alaska’s first third-party natural gas storage facility and Anchorage’s first commercial-grade wind farm. Grovier regularly represents pipeline and telecommunication carriers and other public utilities before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and state courts. In addition, she has broad appellate, litigation, arbitration and commercial transaction experience.
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