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.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | New YorkPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented RBC Capital Markets and Barclays Bank PLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Royal Bank of Canada, as U.S. Administrative Agent, and RBC Europe Limited, as European Administrative Agent, in connection with the financing for Sequa Corporation’s sale of its automotive unit to The Jordan Company, a New York-based private equity firm. The financing consisted of $275,000,000 in U.S. and European senior secured credit facilities.
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Traeger Machetanz and Jon DeMella have joined the Firm’s Seattle office as Partners. Mr. Machetanz’s practice focuses on construction-related matters and he is widely known in the Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska construction industry communities. Mr. DeMella’s practice focuses on government contract issues and he has a strong background in the complexities of various government contract programs, regulations and the bidding and bid protest processes. Mr. Machetanz and Mr. DeMella are two key strategic recruitments as Dorsey continues to build full-service construction and government contracts practices serving the Seattle and Anchorage markets.
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Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz, a respected litigator in the White Collar, Healthcare and Antitrust fields, joins Arnall Golden Gregory’s growing Washington, D.C. office as a partner.
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Simpson Thacher represented Northwood Investors LLC (“Northwood”) in its third offering of interests in Northwood Real Estate Partners LP and its related funds, which are private equity funds focused on investing in a wide range of real estate assets worldwide. The funds closed on $500 million of capital commitments during a 90-day period that ended in December 2012, bringing total capital commitments raised to approximately $2.8 billion. The funds’ capital commitments may grow over time as the result of a unique evergreen feature that allows the funds to reinvest investment proceeds, subject to certain limitations.
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