Cooley LLP announced today that its antitrust team successfully persuaded the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California Attorney General to close their nine month investigation of Tesoro Corporation’s proposed $1.175 billion acquisition of British Petroleum’s Southern California Refining and Marketing business. Cooley represented Tesoro on the antitrust aspects of the acquisition.
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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Steve Plinio has joined its Los Angeles office as a shareholder in the Entertainment & Media Practice.
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The Firm is representing Vingroup Joint Stock Company, Vietnam’s largest private-sector real estate operator, in connection with definitive agreements by a consortium led by an affiliate of Warburg Pincus to make a $200 million investment in Vincom Retail. The definitive agreements also include a commitment from Warburg Pincus to participate in future capital raising by Vingroup in an amount of up to US$25 million, and an opportunity for the consortium to invest an additional US$100 million in Vincom Retail to expand the platform and explore future retail property-related opportunities.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Hong KongSimpson Thacher represented Oaktree Capital Group, LLC in the registered follow-on offering of 8.05 million Class A units representing limited liability company interests. Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse were the joint global coordinators for the approximately $431 million offering. Oaktree intends to use all of the net proceeds from the offering to acquire interests in its business from certain of its directors, employees and other investors.
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Arent Fox is proud to announce the opening of its new San Francisco office in the KPMG Building at 55 Second Street in the city’s Financial District. As a result of client demand, the firm will expand into Northern California with its nationally recognized Automotive, Communications, Mobile & Technology, Complex Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, and Sports practices.
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced that Aled Davies, a leading project finance lawyer known for his work on large-scale infrastructure and energy projects around the world, will be joining the firm as a partner in the Tokyo office effective September 1 and in so doing will become a member of Milbank’s Global Project Finance group.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Grupo Famsa, S.A.B. de C.V., a leading company in the Mexican retail and finance sectors, in connection with its international issuance of high-yield debt securities. The offering was underwritten by Credit Suisse and Citigroup and involved the issuance of $250 million of 7.250% Senior Notes due 2020 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. This transaction marks the first international notes offering by Grupo Famsa since 2010.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Thomas A. Lorenzen has joined the Regulatory Affairs group in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner. Mr. Lorenzen joins Dorsey from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he has been an Assistant Chief since 2004. During that time, he supervised the federal government’s legal defense of all Environmental Protection Agency rules, regulations and other final actions judicially reviewable under the various federal pollution control statutes.
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Osborne Clarke has expanded its international organisation, with a ten-strong team opening an office in Brussels. With the addition of Brussels Osborne Clarke’s international organisation now has 14 offices in six jurisdictions. The team will be joined by members of OC’s EU Regulatory team, which will use the office as a base.
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Gilbert + Tobin advised the issuer, iSelect, on its $215 million initial public offering at $1.85 per share, which implies a market capitalisation for iSelect of approximately $480 million.
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