Simpson Thacher recently represented Bank of America, N.A., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and the other Joint Lead Arrangers in connection with a $2.175 billion Credit Agreement in connection with the acquisition by ARRIS Group, Inc. of the Motorola Home Business from a Subsidiary of Google Inc. ARRIS paid Google approximately $2.2 billion in cash and issued Google 10.6 million shares of ARRIS common stock in connection with the transaction. The cash portion of the consideration was funded through syndicated debt financing and the sale by ARRIS of 10.6 million ARRIS shares to Comcast Corporation. As a result of these securities transactions, Google and Comcast each hold approximately 7.7% of ARRIS’s currently outstanding shares. ARRIS is a video and broadband technology company.

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The Firm is representing J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Barclays Bank PLC in connection with $12.5 billion in bridge financing to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in its announced acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation. The proceeds of the bridge facility will be available to finance the acquisition, to repay certain indebtedness of Life Technologies and to pay fees and expenses related thereto.

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Cahill represented the underwriters in connection with the sale of 28,789,943 shares of common stock of EVERTEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVTC) resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $575,800,000.

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Haynes and Boone, LLP New York welcomes Frank Vivero as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group focusing on international transactions.

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