Kirkland & Ellis LLP represents Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital in their agreement to acquire BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BMC) for approximately $6.9 billion, one of the largest leveraged buyouts this year.
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Cahill Represents Lead Arrangers in $395 Million Credit Facilities for Reddy Ice
Cahill represented JPMorgan Chase Bank and Jefferies Finance as lead arrangers in connection with a $225,000,000 Term B Loan and $50,000,000 revolving credit facility for Reddy Ice Corporation. Cahill also represented the lead arrangers in connection with a new $120,000,000 second lien term loan for Reddy Ice.
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Nancy J. Johnson, Esq. Joins Capehart Scatchard
Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that Nancy J. Johnson, Esq. has recently joined the Firm’s Workers’ Compensation Department as a Shareholder in its Mt. Laurel office.
Stephen Hale Joins Hall Estill as Shareholder
Stephen E. Hale has joined Hall Estill as a shareholder in its Tulsa office.
Reed Smith Adds Two Partners to Houston Office
Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of two partners to its rapidly growing Houston office. Mark D. Temple and Leah T. Rudnicki bring the total number of partners in the firm’s newest office to 16 and the number of lawyers to 22.
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Four Patent Litigators Join Latham & Watkins in California and New York
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that four noted intellectual property litigators have joined the firm as partners in the Litigation Department. The team of attorneys adds recognized patent trial experience to the firm, which has made a series of bold market moves in recent years in building a premier Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
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Litigator Paula Hinton Joins Winston & Strawn Houston
Winston & Strawn LLP has announced Paula W. Hinton will join the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the litigation practice. Ms. Hinton was formerly a partner at Vinson & Elkins, where her practice focused on representing businesses in a broad array of complex civil litigation. The arrival of Ms. Hinton broadens the office’s litigation capabilities and underscores Winston & Strawn’s commitment to developing a full-service platform in Houston.
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Alston & Bird Advises Client Ebix in $820 Million Transaction
Alston & Bird served as legal counsel to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of on-demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, in a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an $820 million transaction, where Ebix shareholders will receive $20 per share in cash.
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Davis Polk – BB Seguridade $5.7 Billion Initial Public Offering
Davis Polk advised Banco do Brasil Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Bradesco Securities, Inc., Itaú BBA USA Securities, Inc., BTG Pactual US Capital LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Brasil Plural Securities LLC and Banco Votorantim Securities as joint bookrunners on the Rule 144A/Regulation S initial public offering of common shares of BB Seguridade Participações S.A. on the São Paulo Stock Exchange. The selling shareholder, Banco do Brasil S.A., sold an aggregate of 675 million shares for a total of approximately R$11.4 billion ($5.7 billion). BB Seguridade’s IPO is the second-largest initial public offering ever by a Latin American issuer and the largest global initial public offering to date in 2013.
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