Hogan Lovells has advised ALSTOM Holdings in relation to its extension of a multi-currency revolving dual-tranche committed bonding guarantee facility until July 2016 for an increased amount from €8.275 billion to up to €9 billion.
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Squire Sanders is pleased to announce that Gregory E. Young has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in its West Palm Beach office. He joins from Edwards Wildman where he was a partner in the Real Estate Department, Chair of the Public Policy & Governmental Relations Department, and through the years and in several capacities, a member of the firm-wide management team.
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Simpson Thacher recently represented Walter Energy, Inc. in its offering of $450 million aggregate principal amount of 8.500% Senior Notes due 2021. Walter Energy used the net proceeds of the offering to repay $250 million of indebtedness outstanding under its credit facilities and the remainder for general corporate purposes. The offering was conducted in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S.
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Peter M. Reyes, Jr. has joined the firm’s Minneapolis office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Department.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ali Nikpay will join the firm as a partner in the worldwide antitrust and competition law practice group. Nikpay will join the firm on April 15 after nine years as Senior Director at the Office of Fair Trading, the UK’s competition authority. At the OFT, he served in a number of leadership posts, including most recently as head of its Cartels and Criminal Enforcement division and as one of the OFT’s main decision makers in merger cases. He was also a member of the OFT’s Executive Committee.
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Clyde & Co corporate finance partner Gary Thorpe and associates Katie Lamb, Carl Hotton and Lucy Pugh advised Lizarazu Limited (a company associated with the Russian entrepreneur, Mr Mustoev) on the purchase of the stake sold by Onexim Group in Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL) for $3.6bn (£2.4bn).
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Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $2.5 billion aggregate financing, including a $1.5 billion 364-day credit facility and a $1 billion amended and restated five-year credit facility, for United Parcel Service, Inc.
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Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella is pleased to announce that Thomas J. Boyle has joined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate practice. Mr. Boyle has concentrated his practice in the real estate tax field for the past 17 years, representing commercial, industrial, and residential property owners in challenging property tax assessments on both a local and a national level. Before joining the firm, Mr. Boyle was a partner in the Real Estate practice at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg in Chicago.
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