Cooley LLP announced today that Jeremy Naylor has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Tax practice. Naylor joins Cooley from White & Case where he specialized in the representation of private equity, real estate, venture capital and hedge fund sponsors in connection with the tax aspects of structuring investment funds. At Cooley, Naylor will work extremely closely with the firm’s leading Venture Capital group.
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Louis Dienes has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles office as a Partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Dienes brings a wealth of experience working with clients in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt financings, and business operations.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP continued its long-standing work on behalf of Cinemark Holdings, Inc., by representing the company in a $530 million Rule 144A high-yield note offering that closed today. The notes, due in 2023, will be guaranteed by certain of the company’s subsidiaries.
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The global law firm Jones Day announced today that Loren Weil and Matt O’Meara have joined the Chicago Office as partners in the Firm’s global Banking & Finance Practice. Both of them arrive from the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn LLP where they were partners in that firm’s banking practice. They are the third and fourth new partners to join in Chicago in the last three months, and will be part of the more than 200 Jones Day lawyers around the world serving financial institutions.
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Harneys is pleased to announce the recruitment of partners Colin Berryman and Andrew Morehouse to its growing Cayman Islands team. Both join from Ogier in the Cayman Islands.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Chris Kennerly, has joined the firm as a partner with the Intellectual Property practice in Palo Alto. Mr. Kennerly joins from Baker Botts LLP, where he was chair of the Palo Alto IP department. His technology-based practice and experience with mobile telecom companies complements the firms growing footprint in the mobile technology market.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Silicon ValleyPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, DNB Markets, Inc., RBC Capital Markets and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as co-lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent, in connection with a commitment increase and maturity date extension for the $2 billion revolving credit facility for Murphy Oil Corporation, Canam Offshore Limited and Murphy Oil Company Ltd.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | HoustonPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented The Carlyle Group, a U.S.-based private equity firm, in its US$267 million acquisition of an office building in Shanghai called Central Plaza, from Singapore-listed real estate fund Forterra Trust.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | ShanghaiPaul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, the owner of China’s largest publicly-traded meat processing enterprise, in a US$7.1 billion agreement to acquire Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD), the largest U.S. publicly-traded pork processor and hog producer. The combination will create one of the largest global pork production, processing and packaged meat companies in the world.
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King & Spalding announced today the return of Lovita Tandy as a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. She rejoins the business litigation practice to focus on labor and employment matters.
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