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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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.
Tags: Nixon Peabody LLPChadbourne & Parke represented Beam Inc., one of the world’s leading premium spirits companies, in connection with the sale of US$500 million of notes in an SEC-registered transaction and contemporaneous cash tender offers and redemptions for certain of Beam’s outstanding public debt.
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McGuireWoods LLP today announced that it is expanding its international trade, competition and EU regulatory law practice with the addition of a four-member team in the firm’s Brussels office. The team will significantly enhance the firm’s abilities in Europe and throughout the United States to represent clients with complex international trade, competition and regulatory matters.
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Sherman & Howard L.L.C., a national law firm that is one of the oldest and most successful headquartered in the Rocky Mountain region, today announced the addition of attorney Eric Johnson as a member in its Denver office. Johnson joins Sherman & Howard from the Denver office of Bryan Cave HRO. His practice focuses on protecting the financial rights and investments of his clients in lending and merger and acquisition transactions, and successfully managing bankruptcy and insolvency risks.
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Robert Brinkley, one of the Charlotte area’s top real estate attorneys, has joined Womble Carlyle.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Huaneng Hong Kong Capital Limited on its US$400 million dollar sale of five-year 3.375% bonds.
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Milbank has advised the lenders and hedge counterparties on a further US$500 million term loan financing for Isramco Negev 2 LP (“Isramco”) in support of its share of the development of the Tamar gas field located off the coast of Israel. The Loan proceeds partially refinance the US$750 million bridge and term loans extended to Isramco in 2011 and also support future development and expansion of the field which became operational in March 2013.
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Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that it is expanding its corporate practice in Europe with the arrival of partner Matthieu Grollemund in Paris. Grollemund was most recently a partner at Orrick Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP.
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Ombline Ancelin has joined the Paris office of international law firm Simmons & Simmons.
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