McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of Jeremy R. Johnson as a partner based in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Johnson will provide McDermott’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice with valuable debtor-side representation and creditor experience.
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Cozen O’Connor, among the 100 largest U.S. law firms, is pleased to announce that former Pennsylvania Attorney General and current Chairman of the Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Commission Jerry Pappert has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation group in Philadelphia. He also will be working closely with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, the firm’s ancillary bi-partisan government relations firm. Before joining Cozen O’Connor, Mr. Pappert served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cephalon, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company.
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Davis Polk is advising Chemtura Corporation in connection with the $200 million sale of its Antioxidant and UV Stabilizers business to an affiliate of SK Capital Partners. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close by the end of 2012 or in early 2013.
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Squire Sanders is pleased to announce the arrival of partner Steven M. Auvil, who joins as head of the Intellectual Property and Technology Group’s litigation practice in the US. He joins from Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, where he was chair of its Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mr. Auvil will split his time between Squire Sanders’ Cleveland and Washington DC offices.
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DLA Piper today announces that leading specialist finance lawyer, Onno Bakker, is joining the firm as a partner in early 2013. He is joining DLA Piper’s Asia Pacific Finance and Projects practice and will be based in the firm’s Sydney office. Onno joins the firm from Linklaters where he was partner and Head of Finance in Amsterdam.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as joint book-running managers and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as co-managers, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of 6.875% senior notes due 2020 by Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.
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Stephen A. Tight has rejoined Fredrikson & Byron as an officer in the firm’s Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Life Sciences Groups. His experience includes representing public and private companies, private equity firms, and venture capital investors in a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions and investment transactions, ranging in value from less than $50 million to billions of dollars, with a particular emphasis in the Life Sciences space. His transactional work includes domestic and cross-border acquisitions; tender and exchange offers; contests for corporate control; going-private transactions; asset acquisitions and divestitures; spin-offs; joint ventures; venture capital and strategic investments; securities offerings; private equity transactions; and Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance.
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Law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP, which opened an office in Hong Kong in October in association with Pang & Co., has already closed two significant Hong Kong initial public offerings for Pegasus Entertainment Holdings Limited and Sunley Holdings Limited. These transactions are two of just four IPOs that have closed in the region in the last two months.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Wolseley Private Equity on its acquisition of Blue Star Group’s Australian operations.
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International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), is advising Basra International Oil and Gas Hub Ltd. (BIOGH) on the creation of a specialized Oil and Gas free zone, at Khor Al-Zubair, Basra.
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