Amy R. Granoff has joined Winstead PC as a shareholder in finance and banking. Granoff’s practice focuses on representing financial institutions, borrowers and issuers in structuring, negotiating and documenting commercial lending and other financial transactions. She joins Winstead from the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP.
Tags: Winstead PC | HoustonSteptoe is pleased to announce that Assistant US Attorney Christopher Niewoehner, a deputy chief in the Financial Crimes and Special Prosecution section of the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, will be joining the firm as a partner in the White-Collar Criminal Defense practice which includes acclaimed trial attorney Reid Weingarten. Mr. Niewoehner will be based in Steptoe’s Chicago office.
Ropes & Gray announced today that on July 20 the Korean Bar Association approved and registered Ropes & Gray as the first Foreign Legal Consultant Office in Korean history. At the same time, Ropes & Gray’s Seoul office officially opened its doors.
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Cravath represented the underwriters, led by Credit Suisse, in connection with the $1.2 billion registered offering of high‑yield notes by CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded operators of hospitals in the United States. The transaction closed on July 18, 2012.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the underwriters, consisting of Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Mediobanca, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, UBS and Unicredit, in the €1.1 billion rights issue for Unipol Gruppo Finanziario (UGF) in a deal launched on July 16, 2012.
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The Firm recently completed its representation of Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities and RBS Securities, as dealer managers, in connection with Rule 144A/Regulation S private exchange offer by Kraft Foods Inc. (“Kraft Foods”). Pursuant to the exchange offers, Kraft Foods offered to exchange its existing 6.500% Notes due 2040, 6.875% Notes due 2039, 6.875% Notes due 2038, 7.000% Notes due 2037, 6.500% Notes due 2031, 5.375% Notes due 2020, 6.125% Notes due August 2018 and 6.125% Notes due February 2018 for up to $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of new 6.500% Notes due 2040, 6.875% Notes due 2039, 5.375% Notes due 2020 and 6.125% Notes due 2018 to be issued by Kraft Foods’ wholly owned subsidiary, Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (“Kraft Foods Group”) and, as applicable, cash. Upon the successful completion of the exchange offers, $3.6 billion of new Kraft Foods Group notes were issued. The notes will be initially guaranteed by Kraft Foods, which guarantee will be automatically released upon the completion of Kraft Foods’ spin-off of Kraft Foods Group to its shareholders.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkThe Firm represented Barclays, BMO Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, RBC Capital Markets, CIBC, HSBC and Morgan Stanley as initial purchasers in connection with a 144A/Regulation S offering by MEG Energy Corp. (“MEG”) of $880 million of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2023. MEG intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes.
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On July 10, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted interim approval of an $802 million debtor in possession financing facility for Patriot Coal Corporation and 98 of its subsidiaries, which filed for bankruptcy protection on July 9. The Debtors are a leading producer and marketer of coal in the United States, with operations and coal reserves in the Appalachia and Illinois Basic coal regions.
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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, continues its lateral growth with the addition of Linda Jackson to its Washington, D.C. office. Jackson, previously a partner with Venable LLP and a former member of its Executive Committee, joins Littler as a shareholder and will focus her litigation practice on a variety of areas, with a particular emphasis on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower investigations, non-competition agreements and litigation, trade secret disputes and related business competition issues. As a first-chair trial attorney, Jackson has more than 17 years of experience handling cases throughout Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia.
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The London, Beijing and Sydney offices of international legal practice Norton Rose Group have advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) on their US$85 million debt financing of Mongolia’s first renewable energy independent power project. The project reached financial close on 17 July 2012.
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