Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of Nabil Sabki to the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Sabki’s practice focuses on representing a wide variety of financial services companies and private funds, including private equity and hedge fund clients. Sabki has an abundance of knowledge and experience with the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
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Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that Rob Kort has joined its litigation team as a shareholder in its Phoenix office. Kort’s practice will focus on handling litigation matters for the firm’s commercial litigation and health care groups.
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Foley announced today that Jan E. Murray has joined the firm’s Health Care Practice Group in its Boston office.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has advised LUKOIL International Finance BV, as issuer on its offering of $3 billion Eurobonds guaranteed by OAO LUKOIL, one of the world’s largest international vertically integrated private oil companies. The transaction closed today.
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Goodwin Procter recently advised client CyOptics, Inc. on its merger agreement with entities affiliated with Avago Technologies Ltd.(Nasdaq: AVGO) in which Avago agreed to acquire CyOptics for $400 million in cash.
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that James R. Robinson has joined the firm’s Atlanta office as a partner in the Corporate Department and Private Wealth Services Practice Group.
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The Firm represented SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (“SeaWorld Entertainment”), a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group L.P., and certain selling stockholders affiliated with The Blackstone Group L.P. (the “Selling Stockholders”), in connection with an initial public offering of common stock. SeaWorld Entertainment is a leading theme park and entertainment company that owns or licenses a portfolio of globally recognized brands including SeaWorld, Shamu and Busch Gardens. SeaWorld Entertainment has a portfolio of 11 destination and regional theme parks across the United States, which showcases its one-of-a-kind collection of approximately 67,000 marine and terrestrial animals.
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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch and Scotiabank as joint book-running managers and CIBC, BMO Capital Markets, National Bank of Canada Financial, Desjardins Securities, TD Securities, RBC Capital Markets, Citigroup, HSBC, and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities as co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.875% Senior Notes due 2020 by Cogeco Cable Inc., a Canadian media and communications company. Proceeds from the offering will be used to refinance existing indebtedness.
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Venable LLP announced that Kurt J. Fischer, an attorney experienced in both trials and regulatory proceedings, has joined the firm as a partner in its Baltimore office.
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Armstrong Teasdale welcomes partner John Hasman and associate David Frenzia to its Litigation practice group.
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