Davis Polk Advises Campbell Soup Company on $1.25 Billion Acquisition Financing

Davis Polk advised Campbell Soup Company on its registered offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2014, $450 million aggregate principal amount of 2.5% notes due 2022 and $400 million aggregate principal amount of 3.8% notes due 2042. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and BNP Paribas Securities Corp. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.

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DLA Piper Strengthens Wealth Management and Private Client Services in Asia

DLA Piper today announces the appointment of Todd Martin Beutler, as partner in the Hong Kong office. With over 15 years of experience with firms in Hong Kong, Singapore and the US, Todd represents high net worth private clients with multinational interests as well as US, Asian and European companies with global operations. In addition to counselling and planning, Todd’s regularly represents clients in tax controversy matters and fiduciary litigation.

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DLA Piper Australia Closes Its Fourth PPP Deal in Just Over a Year

DLA Piper has acted for Lend Lease Project Management & Construction on the $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital PPP, the first health sector public private partnership in Queensland. Lend Lease Project Management & Construction will construct the new hospital and associated facilities in a public private partnership with Queensland Health.

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Thomas B. Snyder Joins Crowe & Dunlevy

Crowe & Dunlevy recently announced Thomas B. Snyder has joined the firm as a director in the litigation and trial and the white collar crime practice groups in the firm’s Oklahoma City office.

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Ballard Spahr Advises on $925 Million HOV/HOT Lanes Project in Virginia

Attorneys in Ballard Spahr’s Public Finance Department represented the Virginia Department of Transportation in a $925 million public-private partnership to build high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes and refurbish high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes along 29 miles of Interstate 95 in Virginia. The project, which took several years to structure and was hailed as “historic… for transportation and the economy in Virginia” by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, closed Tuesday.

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