Bingham Enhances Capabilities in Tokyo

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Building on its finance and corporate strength in Asia, Bingham McCutchen LLP has added Steve Lewis as a partner in the firm’s Japanese Practice Group and Financial Services Area in Tokyo.

Lewis joins Bingham’s Tokyo office from Herbert Smith LLP, where he founded and spent 10 years as managing partner of that firm’s Tokyo office. Lewis has guided clients in large mergers, acquisitions, investments and energy transactions across a wide variety of industry sectors in Japan. He has worked for many Japanese companies, including Sumitomo, Mitsui, Itochu, NTT DoCoMo and INPEX, and with major U.K. and EU corporations in Japan.

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Paul Hastings Announces Official Seoul Office Opening and Expansion of Team

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm has officially opened an office in Seoul where Korea Office Chair Jong Han Kim, Vice Chair and Corporate Partner Daniel Kim and the entire team will be based. The office, located in the prestigious Mirae Asset Center1 building in downtown Seoul, marks Paul Hastings’ twentieth office worldwide and its fifth in Asia.

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Paul Hastings Represents UBS Securities LLC, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and BMO Capital Markets in $250 Million Bond Offering by Shale-Inland Holdings, LLC

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented UBS Securities LLC, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and BMO Capital Markets as initial purchasers in connection with the Rule 144a/Reg S offering of $250 million of 8.75% senior secured notes due 2019 by Shale-Inland Holdings, LLC and its affiliate Shale-Inland Finance Company. Shale-Inland Holdings, LLC is a leading specialty industrial distributor of pipe, valves, fittings and related products and provider of technical solutions to the energy and industrial sectors.

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O’Melveny Represents UBS AG and CLSA as Placement Agents in PT Pakuwon Jati Tbk Block Trade Share Sale

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

O’Melveny & Myers LLP has represented UBS AG and CLSA as placement agents in connection with the block trade share sale by BSL Investment Inc. of 3.4 billion shares of PT Pakuwon Jati Tbk. at a price of IDR240 per share. The gross proceeds received by BSL Investment as selling shareholder totaled approximately IDR816,000,000,000 (US$85 million). The transaction was structured as a placement under Regulation S and Rule 144A under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Charles T. Sharbaugh, Jason W. Howard, and Philip M. Bresson Join Carlton Fields in Atlanta

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that three attorneys joined the firm’s Atlanta office. Charles T. Sharbaugh, a shareholder, and Jason W. Howard, an associate, are members of the firm’s Real Estate and Finance practice group. Philip M. Bresson, an associate, is a member of the firm’s Corporate, Securities, and Tax practice group.

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds Prominent IP, Pharma and Biotech Lawyer Christine Hansen in Wilmington

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a national law firm with 450 lawyers and government relations professionals, announced today that Christine M. Hansen, one of the region’s top intellectual property lawyers in the areas of pharmaceuticals and life sciences, has joined the firm as a shareholder in its Wilmington office.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in Offering of $900 Million of Senior Notes and £400 Million of Senior Notes by Virgin Media and Related Tender Offer

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Firm represented Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and several other banks as underwriters in connection with a public offering by Virgin Media Finance PLC of $900 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.875% Senior Notes due 2022 and £400 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.125% Senior Notes due 2022. The notes are guaranteed by Virgin Media Inc. and certain subsidiaries. Virgin Media used the net proceeds from the offering to fund a tender offer for all of its outstanding 9.50% Senior Notes due 2016 and $250 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.375% dollar and 8.875% sterling denominated Senior Notes due 2019. The Firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities plc and RBS Securities Inc. as dealer-managers for the tender offer.

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