Littler Mendelson Continues High-Profile Lateral Growth; JoAnna Brooks Joins in San Francisco

Monday, June 17, 2013

Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added JoAnna Brooks as a shareholder in the San Francisco office. Brooks, previously a partner and head of the Class Action Practice in Jackson Lewis LLP’s San Francisco office, brings extensive class action litigation experience to the firm. Her arrival reflects Littler’s continued attraction of high-profile lateral shareholders. In the past year, the firm has added a number of prominent attorneys to its shareholder ranks, across multiple practice areas and geographic regions to further expand the firm’s national and global platform.

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Kirkland & Ellis Advises the Elis Group on Its Offering of €450.0 Million High-Yield Senior Secured Notes, €380.0 Million Senior Subordinated Notes and €173.0 Million PIK Notes

Monday, June 17, 2013

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP represented Novalis S.A.S., an intermediate holding company of the Elis group, in its offering of €450.0 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2018. Kirkland also represented Holdelis S.A.S., the direct parent company of Novalis, in its private placement of €380.0 million in aggregate principal amount of senior subordinated notes due 2018 and Legendre Holding 27, the direct parent company of Holdelis, in its private placement of €173.0 million in aggregate principal amount of PIK notes due 2018. The transaction closed on June 14, 2013. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to refinance certain indebtedness.

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VLP Expands Its Commercial Lending Practice with Addition of Patrick Lawler and Jacob Dy-Johnson

Friday, June 14, 2013

VLP Law Group LLP is very pleased to announce that Patrick Lawler and Jacob Dy-Johnson have joined the firm’s Commercial Lending practice. Mr. Lawler joins VLP as a partner from the Corporate Finance group of the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny and Myers. Mr. Dy-Johnson joins VLP as counsel (he was previously in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati).

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Seyfarth Expands California Real Estate Team with San Francisco Partner

Friday, June 14, 2013

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Real Estate partner James O’Brien to the firm’s San Francisco office, continuing the national Real Estate department’s steady growth as the fourth largest Real Estate practice in the United States. O’Brien joins Seyfarth from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, following the recent arrival of a group of six real estate attorneys in Seyfarth’s New York office.

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Paul Hastings Represents Initial Purchasers in $400 Million Note Offering for Sanchez Energy

Friday, June 14, 2013

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Capital One Southcoast, Inc., BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC, BBVA Securities Inc., IBERIA Capital Partners L.L.C., ING Financial Markets LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., SG Americas Securites, LLC and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., as Initial Purchasers, in connection with a $400 million bond offering of 7.75% Senior Notes due 2021 for Sanchez Energy Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company.

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