Kirkland & Ellis Represents The Carlyle Group and Integrated Dental Holdings in £400 Million High Yield Notes Offering

Friday, June 14, 2013

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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Paul Hastings Represents Underwriters in Wuzhou International’s Hong Kong IPO

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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.

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Paul Hastings Advising Gannett on $2.2 Billion Merger with Belo

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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.

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Paul Hastings Advises Centerline Holding Company in connection with acquisition by Hunt Companies, Inc.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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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International Trade and Competition Team Joins McGuireWoods

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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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