International legal practice Norton Rose has advised the UK Green Investment Bank, Barclays Bank, BayernLB and SMBC as lenders to the Wakefield waste Private Finance Initiative (PFI), a municipal waste facility located in South Kirkby.
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SRZ advised Cerberus Capital Management LP as the lead investor in a consortium’s $3.3 billion acquisition from SUPERVALU INC. of its Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s and related Osco and Sav-on in-store pharmacies (the “Banners”). SUPERVALU, a publicly-traded company, is one of the largest U.S. grocery businesses.
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Squire Sanders is pleased to announce the arrival of a team of leading antitrust partners to its Washington, DC office. The group is led by Mark Botti, who was previously the head of the antitrust and unfair competition practice at Akin Gump, and includes J. Brady Dugan and Anthony Swisher.
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Baker & McKenzie is pleased to announce that veteran corporate and securities lawyer Lance Chen has re-joined the Firm. Mr Chen joined Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office as a partner on 1 January to head the Firm’s US Securities Practice Group in Hong Kong and China. He adds extensive experience in international securities transactions to the Firm’s well-regarded Securities practice.
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Law firm Winstead PC hired energy attorney Jon R. Ray, the previous head of Cox Smith Matthews’ energy and natural resources department. Ray is a well-known energy attorney in the San Antonio/South Texas region with 35 years of experience representing operators and producers in exploration and production aspects of oil, gas and mineral law. Ray will work as a shareholder in Winstead’s energy and environmental law practice group.
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Kaye Scholer recently represented Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in an unsecured revolving credit facility of $2.5 billion and an unsecured term loan facility of $750 million for ERP Operating Limited Partnership, the multifamily residential property business of Equity Residential. Equity Residential focuses on the acquisition, development and management of premium apartment properties in growing North American markets. These facilities will help Equity Residential position itself for the closing of the Archstone acquisition in the first quarter of 2013.
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Latham & Watkins advised the Arrangers, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Sberbank CIB and Troika Dialog Kazakhstan, in connection with the establishment by “Samruk-Energy” Joint Stock Company of its US$680,000,000 Global Medium Term Note Programme. The Notes were listed on the Irish Stock Exchange and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange. Latham & Watkins subsequently advised the same institutions in their capacity as Dealers in relation to a US$500,000,000 drawdown under the Programme, which closed on 20th December 2012.
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Continuing the firm’s ongoing strategic growth efforts, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has added a team of three litigators to its Washington, DC office. Joining are partners John Parker Sweeney and T. Sky Woodward, along with associate Kevin B. Mattingly. All three come to the firm from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Min Ho Lee has joined the firm in Washington, DC as a partner in the Litigation & Dispute practice, focusing on international arbitration and antitrust law. Previously, Mr. Lee was a partner at the Korean law firm Lee & Ko and earlier was with Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented RBC Capital Markets, BMO Capital Markets and Jefferies Finance LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and Royal Bank of Canada, as Administrative Agent, in connection with the financing for Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s acquisition of Heartland Dental Care. The financing consisted of $750,000,000 in first lien and second lien senior secured credit facilities.
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