DLA Piper today announced that Carl Buchholz has joined the Litigation practice as a partner in the Philadelphia office.
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Chadbourne Represents Lenders to the Approximately $6 Billion Sabine Pass LNG Liquefaction Project
Prominent Employment Litigator Steven J. Pearlman Joins Proskauer Chicago Office
Proskauer has expanded its labor and employment capabilities with the addition of employment litigator Steven J. Pearlman as a Partner in the firm’s Chicago office. A former partner and co-chair of Seyfarth Shaw’s national Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower team, Mr. Pearlman joins Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department as co-head of its newly launched Whistleblowing and Retaliation Practice Group.
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Missouri Supreme Court Judge William Ray Price, Jr. Joins Armstrong Teasdale
Ray Price, the longest serving judge on the Missouri Supreme Court, has joined Armstrong Teasdale as a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice group. Before becoming a judge, Price was a high-profile litigator and his move to Armstrong Teasdale marks his return to the courtroom as an advocate and his representation of clients in complex business and tort matters.
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HWL Ebsworth Expands Sydney Insolvency and Litigation Practice
HWL Ebsworth has announced the appointment of Grant Whatley as a partner in its Sydney Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group.
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Katten Provides Counsel to General Bearing Corporation in Sale to SKF AB
SKF AB announced today that the acquisition of General Bearing Corporation has closed, with SKF acquiring all of the stock of General Bearing. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP served as counsel to General Bearing Corporation in its sale to Swedish manufacturer SKF AB. Under the agreement, SKF AB acquired General Bearing and its subsidiaries, including interests in four manufacturing sites in China, for a purchase price of approximately $28 per share, all cash, which represents an aggregate enterprise value of $125 million, net of contractual adjustments and the satisfaction of certain obligations and liabilities of the company.
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Davis Polk – Hologic, Inc. $3.8 Billion Leveraged Acquisition Financing
Davis Polk advised Goldman Sachs Bank USA as lead arranger, bookrunner and syndication agent and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as sole book-running manager in connection with $3.8 billion of financing provided to Hologic, Inc. for its acquisition of Gen-Probe Incorporated. The financing, which closed concurrently with the acquisition, consisted of $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured term loans, a $300 million senior secured revolving credit facility and a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of Hologic’s 6.25% senior notes due 2020. Hologic’s obligations under the term loans, the revolving credit facility and the notes are guaranteed by all of its domestic subsidiaries, including Gen-Probe Incorporated and its domestic subsidiaries. Hologic’s obligations under the term loans and the revolving credit facility are secured by substantially all of Hologic’s and the guarantors’ assets.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk – Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Debt Tender Offer
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as dealer manager for a cash tender offer by Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. to purchase any and all of its outstanding 6.15% notes due 2013 and any and all of the 8.95% notes due 2014 and the 4.75% notes due 2014 issued by The Black & Decker Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Stanley Black & Decker purchased approximately $376.6 million aggregate principal amount of notes under the tender offer.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk – AngloGold Ashanti $750 Million SEC-Registered Debt Offering
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Bank plc, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.125% notes due 2022 by AngloGold Ashanti Holdings plc, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AngloGold Ashanti).
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Davis Polk advised Archway Marketing Services and its majority shareholder Tailwind Capital on the sale of Archway to Investcorp for approximately $300 million.
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