Kirkland & Ellis represents GTCR and its portfolio company Actient Holdings LLC, a private urology specialty therapeutics company, in Actient’s $585 million acquisition by Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Chicago-based corporate team is led by partners Sanford Perl, Michael Weed and Michael Snow.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that David Walker has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Walker is an M&A lawyer with a particular focus on all aspects of private equity work . Over the years, he has built a reputation as one of the most prominent private equity lawyers in the UK.
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Roetzel is pleased to announce that veteran attorneys Edgar Asebey-Birkholm and James T. O’Reilly have brought their extensive food and drug practice to the firm. Mr. Asebey-Birkholm is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office, where he will serve as the FDA Industry Group manager, and Mr. O’Reilly is Of Counsel, working from the firm’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office.
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Robert E. Schiappacasse has joined Archer & Greiner P.C. as a Partner in the law firm’s Monmouth County, N.J., office in Shrewsbury.
Davis Polk advised The AES Corporation in an SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.875% senior notes due 2023, and on its concurrent tender offers for any and all of its outstanding 7.75% senior notes due 2014, and up to a total of $300 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 7.75% senior notes due 2015, 9.75% senior notes due 2016 and 8.00% senior notes due 2017. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and RBS Securities Inc. were joint book-running managers for the offering of the senior notes. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is serving as dealer manager for the tender offers.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Santander Investment Securities Inc., Standard Chartered Bank and UBS Securities LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Diageo Capital plc of $750 million principal amount of 0.625% notes due 2016, $650 million principal amount of 1.125% notes due 2018, $1.35 billion 2.625% notes due 2023 and $500 million principal amount of 3.875% notes due 2043, in each case guaranteed by Diageo plc.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPDavis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the underwriters in connection with a $1 billion SEC-registered notes offering by NIKE, Inc., consisting of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% notes due 2023 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.625% notes due 2043.
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International law firm Taylor Wessing has today announced the addition of a new lateral hire to its market leading Private Client practice. Sanjvee Shah is set to join the firm on 7th May 2013 from Speechly Bircham, where she was a Partner in the Private Client division.
Tags: Taylor Wessing LLPLeading private client lawyer Charles Gothard has been appointed as partner in Macfarlanes with immediate effect.
