Cozen O’Connor announced today that effective Wednesday, six attorneys from the firm of Edwards Wildman are joining Cozen O’Connor, in practice areas that include trusts and estates/private client services, real estate, insurance coverage, reinsurance, insurance corporate and regulatory and litigation. D. Scott Elliott, Michael Botos, Harvey Feintuch, A. Kenneth Levine, Simeon Brier and John David Dickenson are joining the firm as partners.
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Shearman & Sterling advised Cegedim S.A. on its offering of €300 million 6¾% Senior Notes due 2020. The offering, which was conducted pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act, closed on March 20, 2013.
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Alexander G. Calfo, a prominent litigator, has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Calfo will be joined by three associates, Kelley S. Olah, Julia E. Romano and Stacy L. Foster.
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Gerry Leone, District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, announced today he will join international law firm Nixon Peabody LLP as partner in the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice in Boston effective April 29.
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Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $3,500,000,000 of senior notes of MetroPCS Wireless, Inc. (“Wireless”), comprised of $1,750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.25% Senior Notes due 2021 and $1,750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.625% Senior Notes due 2023.
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K&L Gates acted as lead Australian lawyers in Mesoblast Limited’s A$170 million raising, one of the largest international private equity financings for a biotech company in recent years. The world’s largest regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast raised the funds through a targeted institutional private placement, with the issue structured to comply with U.S. SEC exemptions (144a and Regulation S) as well as applicable UK and local Asian security laws.
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Timothy P. Frawley joined the firm as a Partner in the Professional Practices and Insurance & Tort Litigation Groups.
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Gibbons P.C. is pleased to announce that G. Daniel McCarthy, has joined the firm as a Director in the Corporate Department.
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Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as sole lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with $1.77 billion of financing provided to Tempur-Pedic International Inc. for its acquisition of Sealy Corporation, which closed on March 18, 2013. The financing consists of $1.07 billion in senior secured term loan facilities, a $350 million senior secured revolving credit facility and a $350 million senior unsecured bridge facility.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk is advising Crestview Partners as member of an investor group in connection with the $2.617 billion sale of approximately 26.9 million shares and approximately 1.1 million warrants in Charter Communications, Inc. to Liberty Media Corporation. The investor group includes investment funds managed by, or affiliated with, Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the first half of the second quarter of 2013.
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