Roetzel is pleased to announce that veteran attorneys Edgar Asebey-Birkholm and James T. O’Reilly have brought their extensive food and drug practice to the firm. Mr. Asebey-Birkholm is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office, where he will serve as the FDA Industry Group manager, and Mr. O’Reilly is Of Counsel, working from the firm’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office.
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Robert E. Schiappacasse has joined Archer & Greiner P.C. as a Partner in the law firm’s Monmouth County, N.J., office in Shrewsbury.
Davis Polk advised The AES Corporation in an SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.875% senior notes due 2023, and on its concurrent tender offers for any and all of its outstanding 7.75% senior notes due 2014, and up to a total of $300 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 7.75% senior notes due 2015, 9.75% senior notes due 2016 and 8.00% senior notes due 2017. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and RBS Securities Inc. were joint book-running managers for the offering of the senior notes. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is serving as dealer manager for the tender offers.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Santander Investment Securities Inc., Standard Chartered Bank and UBS Securities LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Diageo Capital plc of $750 million principal amount of 0.625% notes due 2016, $650 million principal amount of 1.125% notes due 2018, $1.35 billion 2.625% notes due 2023 and $500 million principal amount of 3.875% notes due 2043, in each case guaranteed by Diageo plc.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPDavis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the underwriters in connection with a $1 billion SEC-registered notes offering by NIKE, Inc., consisting of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% notes due 2023 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.625% notes due 2043.
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International law firm Taylor Wessing has today announced the addition of a new lateral hire to its market leading Private Client practice. Sanjvee Shah is set to join the firm on 7th May 2013 from Speechly Bircham, where she was a Partner in the Private Client division.
Tags: Taylor Wessing LLPLeading private client lawyer Charles Gothard has been appointed as partner in Macfarlanes with immediate effect.
Olswang, one of a small handful of “go to” firms for IP in Europe and Asia, has boosted its leading IP Practice with the hire of Dr Justin Hill. The news comes as Olswang has been recognised by leading legal directory Chambers & Partners as one of only 3 band 1 IP firms (London) in its 2013 UK edition.
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has significantly expanded its Environmental practice, landing seven top attorneys and preeminent workplace safety and environmental lawyer Mark Farley. The move broadens both the legal skillsets and national reach of that rapidly growing practice and adds a new office in Houston, Texas.
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