Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced that Carey R. Troell has joined the firm’s San Antonio office as a partner in the public finance practice. Troell focuses on tax-exempt financings and has clients in all aspects of public finance transactions including state and local government finance matters, including traditional municipal finance, tax increment finance, and public improvement districts.
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Dana Gas PJSC, the largest independent oil and gas company in the UAE, has successfully completed the restructuring of its US$1 billion Trust Certificates (sukuk al-mudarabah). The restructuring, the first of its kind in the Middle East, was implemented through the exchange of Dana Gas’ existing sukuk certificates with two tranches of new sukuk certificates (one convertible and one non-convertible tranche), each with a 5 year tenor.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it represented DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. in the negotiations that culminated in its agreement to buy AwesomenessTV, a multi-channel YouTube subscription for teens.
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Doreen D. Dodson, the first woman to serve as president of The Missouri Bar and a national leader in the field of employment and immigration law has joined the St. Louis office of Polsinelli. In her new role, she will serve as a senior partner in the firm’s labor and employment law practice group.
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Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad (“SapuraKencana”), a major oil & gas services company headquartered in Malaysia, on the debt and equity financing of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital in Seadrill Tender Rig Ltd (“Seadrill”) and certain other related businesses and assets. The acquisition included purchasing 18 tender drilling rigs from Seadrill (6 semi-tenders, 9 tender barges and 3 newbuilds.
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King & Wood Mallesons has advised Charter Hall’s Core Plus Office Fund (Charter Hall) on its joint acquisition of FKP Property Group’s Gasometer 2 Brisbane office development with PSP Investments, one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers.
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King & Spalding has advised Gulf Capital and Gulf Related in obtaining a ground-breaking SAR 450 million financing facility from the National Commercial Bank. The proceeds of the facility will be used to develop a residential compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Paul, Weiss represented Elliott Management Corp. in a $6.9 billion acquisition of BMC Software by a consortium led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital Corp. Elliott currently holds over nine percent of BMC’s common stock, making it the company’s second-largest shareholder. The transaction represents the culmination of an activist effort that began in the summer of 2012 with a successful proxy contest in which Elliott added two directors to BMC’s Board.
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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and BMO Capital Markets, as joint book-running managers, and Barclays, J.P. Morgan, and Wells Fargo Securities, as co-managers, in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.875% Senior Notes due 2023 by Resolute Forest Products Inc., a global leader in the forest products industry.
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