Simpson Thacher is representing J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in its role as financial advisor to Gannett Co., Inc. in connection with Gannett’s announced acquisition of Belo Corp. for $13.75 per share in cash, or approximately $1.5 billion, plus the assumption of existing debt for an enterprise value of approximately $2.2 billion.
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Polsinelli welcomes highly experienced legislative strategist and attorney Margaret “Peggy” Binzer as a shareholder to the firm. With background and experience in patient safety and quality issues on Capitol Hill, Binzer will practice in both the firm’s national Health Care Practice and Public Policy Group. Binzer brings more than 15 years of experience in food and drug law and will focus her practice on matters relating to health care, life sciences and patient safety and quality issues. Polsinelli’s growing Health Care Practice is the fourth largest in the nation and represents health care systems, medical centers and physician practices.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the successful bidder, Exemplar Health, on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) to design, build, finance and maintain the Bendigo Hospital.
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On June 11, Willkie client Clovis Oncology, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 3,333,334 shares of its common stock at $72.00 per share. The size of the offering was upsized from $170 million to $240 million. Additionally, the underwriters have exercised a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 486,110 shares of common stock from Clovis Oncology, bringing the total value of the offering to $275 million. J. P. Morgan Securities LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, which is expected to close on June 17.
Tags: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | New YorkLaw firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) is pleased to announce the addition of ten attorneys to its Jacksonville, Fla. office. Previously with Fowler White Boggs P.A., the group consists of six partners, one of counsel attorney, and three associates practicing in the areas of corporate law, litigation and real estate. SGR’s Jacksonville office now has a total of 31 attorneys.
Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, BB&T Capital Markets, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.75% Senior Notes due 2023 by Ingles Markets, Incorporated, a leading supermarket chain that operates supermarkets across six states in the Southeastern United States. Proceeds from the offering will be used to refinance existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.
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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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Liza Mark, a veteran lawyer of more than 14 years, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP and will serve as the administrative partner in its recently announced Shanghai office.
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Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Roy E. Hadley, Jr. and John L. Watkins and have joined the firm’s Atlanta office as partners in the Corporate Transactions & Securities and Business Litigation practice groups, respectively.
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