Arnold & Porter LLP represented The Charles Schwab Corporation in a $350 million senior notes offering. The senior notes were offered at 0.850% and are due in 2015. The deal was launched on December 3, 2012 and closed on December 6, 2012. This marks the fourth securities deal that Arnold & Porter’s corporate team has done for Schwab in 2012. Schwab’s relationship with the firm dates back to the company’s first IPO in 1987. The firm (first as Howard Rice, now as Arnold & Porter) has advised Schwab on a wide range of securities matters, including the $3.3 billion capital restructuring in 2007 and over $3.3 billion in securities transactions since then.

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Jared A. Goldman, a health care attorney and chief counsel for the receiver of the California prison medical system, has joined Best Best & Krieger LLP in Sacramento as a partner in the law firm’s business services practice. More >>

The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has agreed to sell its TV and radio operations in Northern Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark) to Discovery Networks International Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Discovery Communications; Inc. A respective sale and purchase agreement was signed on 14th December 2012. The transaction is subject to merger control clearance and is expected to be consummated in the first quarter of 2013. The production business of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in Northern Europe (Red Arrow Entertainment Group) is not included in the transaction.

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP recently advised Industrial Investors Group, a leading Russian industrial investment group, in the sale of its stake in Russia’s Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) to Summa Group. The deal amount was not disclosed, but was financed in part by a US $800 million syndicated loan from Goldman Sachs, ING and Raiffeisen Bank.

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Leading global law firm Mayer Brown has advised The Kingdom of Morocco on its offering of $1 billion in 10-year notes and $500 million in 30-year notes, the first international debt offering by The Kingdom of Morocco following events of the Arab Spring and the first offering by The Kingdom of Morocco into the US markets in reliance on Rule 144A.

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