Shearman & Sterling’s highly regarded derivatives and structured products group in London has received a significant boost with the addition of James Duncan, who has considerable experience with both corporates and financial institutions.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLPExperienced Patent Lawyer Doreen Y. Trujillo Joins Saul Ewing’s Chesterbrook Office
Saul Ewing LLP is pleased to announce that Doreen Y. Trujillo has joined the firm as a partner in the Business and Finance, Intellectual Property and Technology, and Life Sciences practices. Trujillo, who has more than 20 years of experience as a patent attorney, will be resident in the Chesterbrook, PA office.
Tags: Saul Ewing LLPSNR Denton and Citi Create New Financing Facility for Single Family Rental Home Asset Class
Members of SNR Denton’s Capital Markets practice, along with Citi, worked collaboratively to pioneer an innovative financing structure that provided a $245 million revolving credit facility to Waypoint Homes and GI Partners. This innovation will help support the acquisition, renovation, long-term ownership and management of Waypoint’s growing national portfolio of single family rental (SFR) homes.
Tags: Dentons | New YorkJones Day Expands Its Paris Banking & Finance Practice with Addition of Alban Caillemer du Ferrage and His Team
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that partner Alban Caillemer du Ferrage, of counsel Qian Hu, counsel Karole-Anne Sauvet, and associates Clément Saudo and Mathilde Nicand will join the Banking & Finance Practice in the Firm’s Paris Office on October 8, 2012.
Tags: Jones DayEstudio Echecopar Joins Baker & McKenzie; First Global Law Firm In Peru
Baker & McKenzie, the world’s leading global law firm, and Estudio Echecopar, the leading Peruvian law firm, today announced that Estudio Echecopar has agreed to join Baker & McKenzie. With this, Baker & McKenzie becomes the first global law firm to establish an office in the fast-rising Andean nation.
Tags: Baker McKenzieBaker & McKenzie Advises PTT Global Chemical on USD1 Billion Inaugural Bond Offering
Baker & McKenzie recently advised PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) on its inaugural USD1 billion issuance of senior unsecured notes due in 2022. The notes, which were listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), represent the largest ever single-tranche US dollar bond offering by a Thai corporate entity.
Tags: Baker McKenzieSimpson Thacher Represents the Underwriters in Offering of $2 Billion of Senior Notes by NBCUniversal Media, LLC
The Firm recently represented the underwriters, led by Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, in the SEC-registered offering of $2 billion of senior notes of NBCUniversal Media, LLC, comprising $1 billion of 2.875% Senior Notes due 2023 and $1 billion of 4.450% Senior Notes due 2043.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkSimpson Thacher Represents Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. in $900 Million Aggregate Offerings of Senior Secured Notes and Exchangeable Note Units and in Related Tender Offer
Simpson Thacher represented Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) (the “Company”), one of the nation’s largest homebuilders and a long-standing client of the Firm, in connection with the private placement offering of $577 million 7.25% Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2020 and $220 million 9.125% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2020 and the registered offering of $100 million aggregate stated amount of 6.00% Exchangeable Note Units (equivalent to 100,000 Units) (which amount includes the full exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters), with each Unit composed of a senior exchangeable note and a senior amortizing note. The offerings resulted in aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $900 million. Hovnanian used the proceeds of the offerings to fund the cash tender offer and consent solicitation (the “Tender Offer”) for any and all of its 10?% Senior Secured Notes due 2016 (the “Existing Secured Notes”) and to redeem any of its Senior Notes not tendered pursuant to the Tender Offer.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkSimpson Thacher Represents CHC Helicopter in Refinancing
The Firm recently represented CHC Helicopter S.A. (“CHC Helicopter”) in an offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of additional 9.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Hong KongLewis Ho Joins Dechert’s Hong Kong Corporate Practice
Dechert LLP announced today that Lewis Ho has joined the firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in the Corporate and Securities practice. Ho was most recently a resident partner in the Beijing office at Simmons & Simmons LLP.
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