Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is advising longstanding client Renova, a leading private business group, as a member of the Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) consortium, in relation to the sale of AAR’s stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft for an all-cash consideration of $28 billion.
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Matthew B. Gruenberg, a noted corporate lawyer, has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and will chair the Franchising & Distribution Law Practice Group.
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Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented Dallas-based Cardinal Midstream LLC in the company’s recent $600 million sale of its natural gas processing, treatment, and pipeline systems in the Woodford Shale region of southeastern Oklahoma to Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P. of Philadelphia.
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Foley announced today that Frederic J. Adam (“Fred”) has joined the firm’s Tax & Individual Planning Practice as a partner in its Silicon Valley office. Prior to joining Foley, Fred was a tax partner in the International Corporate Tax group of KPMG LLP.
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Bracewell & Giuliani is representing Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its agreement to sell a substantial majority of its remaining midstream assets to Access Midstream Partners, L.P. for approximately $2.16 billion. The assets are located primarily in the company’s Marcellus, Utica, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Niobrara shale plays.
Tags: Bracewell LLP | HoustonBracewell is representing Prosperity Bancshares in the $193.9 million acquisition of Oklahoma City-based Coppermark Bancshares. This transaction expands Prosperity outside Texas for the first time.
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Greenlee Sullivan P.C.’s attorneys will join Lathrop & Gage LLP on Jan. 1, 2013, the two firms announced today. The combination creates one of Colorado’s largest intellectual property practices and continues Lathrop & Gage’s aggressive national growth in biotechnology and life sciences.
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The $765,000,000 senior secured facilities arranged by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Jefferies Finance LLC was funded today. The senior secured facilities included a $475,000,000 senior secured first lien term loan facility, maturing in 2019, a $190,000,000 senior secured second lien term loan facility, maturing in 2020 and a $100,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility, terminating in 2017, the proceeds of which will be used to finance in part the acquisition of CHG Healthcare Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries by Leonard Green & Partners and Ares Management from JW Childs. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP represented the Joint Lead Arrangers including Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Jefferies Finance LLC; Milbank also represented Barclays Bank PLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as First and Second Lien Administrative Agents in connection therewith.
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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher A. Cole, former advertising litigation practice chair at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, has joined the firm as a partner in the Advertising & Product Risk Management Group in Washington, D.C. Cole will co-chair the group with Crowell & Moring partner Bridget E. Calhoun. With 20 years experience, Cole is a seasoned complex commercial litigator who advises clients on matters relating to advertising and media controversies, unfair competition, and green marketing claims, as well as compliance and risk prevention. In addition, Cole regularly handles the defense of class action litigation as it relates to false advertising and defends clients in federal enforcement proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general, and other regulatory bodies.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as administrative agent, and UBS Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and GE Capital Markets, Inc., as joint lead arrangers, in connection with the amendment and restatement of the $375 million dollar equivalent first lien credit facilities and the entry into a new $135 million second lien term loan credit facility of Pharmaceutical Research Associates, Inc. for the purposes of, among other things, refinancing existing indebtedness and the payment of a shareholder dividend.
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