Simon Kai-Tse Cheong has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Finance and Bankruptcy practice groups, based in the firm’s Beijing office. Cheong joins from the Chinese law firm Zhong Lun in Beijing.
Tags: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | BeijingSheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of a Seoul office in the Mirae Asset CENTER. The new office, which is the firm’s sixteenth location, opens following last month’s Korean Bar Association registration of the firm’s foreign legal consultant office in Seoul, the final regulatory step needed by the firm to open a Korean office. Sheppard Mullin is among the first three law firms in the United States and the European Union approved to open in Korea.
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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that it served as legal adviser to Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, in its sale by Hellman & Friedman to a partnership comprised of global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and Getty Images management for $3.3 billion.
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Shearman & Sterling advised the underwriters in connection with Sprint Nextel Corporation’s offering of $1.5 billion of 7.000% notes due 2020. J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint bookrunners.
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Randy A. Bridgeman has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Governance & Transactions Practice. He was most recently a Partner at K&L Gates LLP, where he was head of the Corporate group for the Chicago office. Bridgeman was also a partner at Chicago-based Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, prior to its merger with K&L Gates in 2009. Bridgeman is the 11th partner to join Perkins Coie’s Chicago office this year.
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Loeb & Loeb LLP represented a special committee of the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., a provider of analytic software solutions for the security and business intelligence markets, in its announced acquisition of Comverse Technology Inc. The all-stock deal, valued at approximately $805 million, will eliminate Comverse’s majority ownership in and control of Verint.
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O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Bruce Tobey, a highly regarded entertainment transactions lawyer with more than a decade of executive experience, has joined the Firm’s Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice. He will reside in the Firm’s Century City office.
Tags: O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | Los AngelesO’Melveny & Myers LLP advised long-term client Coller Capital on the approximately £1.03 billion acquisition by a fund financed by Coller International Partners VI (CIP VI) of a portfolio of private equity-related investments, as well as the transfer of £220 million of undrawn commitments, from Lloyds Banking Group plc. This transaction is believed to be the largest unsyndicated secondaries deal ever completed. The O’Melveny London-based team was led by partner Solomon Wifa.
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Herbert Smith has recently advised Standard Chartered Bank as the arranger and dealer on the establishment of a S$750 million Euro Medium Term Note (“EMTN”) programme by LMIRT Capital Pte Ltd and the first two fixed rate note issues under that programme. The EMTN programme is guaranteed by HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited, in its capacity as trustee of Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust (the “LMIRT Trust”). The first two note issues under the EMTN programme comprise the series 1 S$200 million 4.88% Notes due 2015 and the series 2 S$50 million 5.875% Notes due 2017.
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King and Spalding has advised Gas Natural Fenosa on the purchase of almost 5 billion cubic meters of LNG per year – an amount equivalent to 15% of annual Spanish natural gas consumption – from U.S.-based Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC. Sabine Pass is an affiliate of Cheniere Energy, Inc., which announced today the completion of all milestones and issuance of a full notice to proceed to construct the first two trains of the approximate $5.6 billion Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The LNG purchase agreement will have an initial term of 20 years.
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