SNR Denton is pleased to announce that Eddie Frastai has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Real Estate practice.
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Thomas M. Dunham Joins Winston & Strawn Washington, D.C.
Winston & Strawn LLP today announced Thomas M. Dunham has joined the firm as partner in the intellectual property practice. Mr. Dunham joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office from Novak Druce + Quigg LLP where he was chair of the litigation practice group and a member of the executive committee.
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Paul Hastings Represents China Everbright on US$200 Million Loan Facilities
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has successfully represented China Everbright International Limited (“China Everbright”), a company whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in relation to its US$200 million term loan facilities provided by Asian Development Bank (“ADB”) to two wholly-owned subsidiaries of China Everbright. The financing is in the form of a direct US$100 million A-loan and a complementary B-loan of up to US$100 million, to be funded by commercial lenders with ADB acting as “lender on record”.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong KongPaul Hastings Represents GE Healthcare in Sale of Thomas Medical
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, is representing GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), in the sale of Thomas Medical Products, Inc. (“Thomas Medical”) to Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (“Merit”) (NASDAQ: MMSI), a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy, for the purchase price of $167 million subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The transaction is expected to close prior to December 31, 2012.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLPPaul Hastings Represents Cowen and Company, CRT Capital and The Seaport Group in JW Aluminum Refinancing
Paul Hastings LLP represented Cowen and Company, CRT Capital and The Seaport Group as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $200,000,000 of 11.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 by JW Aluminum Company, a manufacturer of specialty, flat-rolled aluminum products. Proceeds from the offering, together with amounts drawn at closing under JW Aluminum Company’s amended asset-based revolving credit facility, were used to refinance existing indebtedness.
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Leading Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Attorney Mark Harris Joins Jenner & Block’s Chicago Office
Mark A. Harris has joined Jenner & Block as a partner in the Chicago office. As one of Chicago’s most highly regarded M&A attorneys, Mr. Harris has been at the heart of many major transactions, including Wrapports, LLC’s recent acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Harris joins the Firm’s Corporate Practice and will serve as Co-Chair of its Private Equity Practice and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He will advise clients on acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, LBOs, going-private transactions, reorganizations, proxy contests and other complex transactions, as well as on corporate governance and other general business matters.
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Simpson Thacher Represents Sealed Air Corporation in Secondary Offering of Common Stock
The Firm recently represented Sealed Air Corporation (“Sealed Air”) in connection with a secondary offering of 15,026,665 shares of common stock of Sealed Air by Commercial Markets Holdco, LLC.
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Venable Adds Experienced Commercial Litigator Stacie Tobin as a Partner in Its Baltimore Office
Venable LLP announced that experienced commercial litigator and products liability defense counsel Stacie Tobin has joined the firm as a partner in its Baltimore office.
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Procopio Continues to Grow, Expands in Silicon Valley
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is at it again. The California Daily Journal recently ranked Procopio fourth among all California firms in terms of growth in 2012, with a 27.3% growth rate. And the firm recently earned the ranking as San Diego’s largest law firm, with over 130 attorneys.
Procopio now adds again to that number, announcing the addition of five new attorneys to their Silicon Valley office.
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Atlanta-Based Smith, Gambrell & Russell Combines With Hartman & Craven in New York
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR), a full-service, international law firm, announced that it has combined with Hartman & Craven LLP, a New York law firm with a broad-based practice as well as deep roots and knowledge about the New York area market. The combination of the two storied law firms, each with over 90 years of history and service both to clients and the legal profession, was effective October 1, 2012 and doubled the number of SGR attorneys in New York.
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