Davis Polk is advising Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as sole lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with $2.12 billion of financing provided to Tempur-Pedic International Inc. for its proposed acquisition of Sealy Corporation. The financing consists of $1.42 billion senior secured term loan facilities, a $350 million senior secured revolving credit facility and a $350 million senior unsecured bridge facility.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised underwriters represented by Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. in connection with the offering of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.65% bonds due 2019, issued by the Province of Ontario.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Jonathan Link has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Link, an electrical engineer and former patent examiner, brings more than 18 years of intellectual property-related experience in the technology and scientific sectors, including more than a decade specializing in patent litigation.
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Cooley LLP announced that it advised Clearlake Capital Group, LP in its recent acquisition of NetMotion Wireless Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, as well as in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Mformation Technologies, Inc. The terms of both transactions were not disclosed.
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Jay Koren has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the firm’s Taxation Practice Group and will be based in Akerman’s Miami office.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented ARCH Capital Management, a boutique Asian real estate investment firm specializing in the management of real estate private equity funds in Asia, as U.S. legal counsel in forming a new real estate private equity fund, ARCH Capital-TRG Asian Master Partners, L.P.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | New YorkThe international law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP today announced that Silvia Fazio, a leading international corporate lawyer, has joined the firm as an international partner in the corporate practice. Ms. Fazio will be resident in Chadbourne’s São Paulo and London offices. She will also establish a Brazil Desk in Chadbourne’s London office to service the firm’s U.K. and European clients who are active in Brazil.
Tags: Sao PauloDickstein Shapiro’s State Attorneys General Practice continues its strategic advancement with the arrival of JB Kelly as a partner, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Kelly joins the firm from the North Carolina Department of Justice, where he served as General Counsel to Attorney General Roy Cooper, responsible for major investigations, multi-state activities, and critical public policy issues. Mr. Kelly was principal liaison to all State Chief Deputy Attorneys General.
Attorneys from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., represented New England Sinai Hospital in its acquisition by Steward Health Care System, LLC. New England Sinai Hospital is a 212-bed, long-term acute-care hospital with its main campus in Stoughton, Massachusetts and inpatient satellite units at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Steward Health Care is the largest fully integrated community hospital-based health care organization in New England.
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