The Firm recently represented the underwriters in connection with the public offering of US$750 million of 1.4% Notes due 2017 by Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Capital Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC were the Joint Book-Running Managers for the offering.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | TokyoChadbourne & Parke LLP represented Scotiabank & Trust (Cayman) Ltd., The Bank of Tokio-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., DNB Bank ASA, Agencia en Chile, and The Bank of Nova Scotia as lenders in connection with the grant of a US$180 million revolving credit facility to Transelec — a Chilean electricity transmission company.
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Stephen Culhane has joined Kaye Scholer’s Corporate Department as a Partner in its Fund Formation practice. He has almost 20 years experience advising sponsors of private equity, real estate, special situation and distressed investment funds, hedge funds and funds of funds with the structuring, formation and operation of such fund products. Over the course of his career, he has advised clients with respect to the formation of countless funds organized to invest in private equity, real estate and diverse trading strategies, including the largest private equity fund formed to date to invest in the People’s Republic of China. In addition to his fund formation experience, Culhane has extensive experience representing institutional investors in private funds as well as buyers and sellers of secondary interests in private equity portfolios.
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Clyde & Co is delighted to welcome Rebecca Ford as a partner in the firm’s employment and incentives group in the Middle East. Rebecca joins partner Sara Khoja to form the only two partner practice in the region.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the State of Qatar (SoQ) on the US$4 billion two-part bond issuance by SoQ Sukuk A Q.S.C. The offering is the largest US dollar-denominated sukuk issuance to date and is comprised of a US$2 million tranche of trust certificates due 2018 and a further tranche of US$2 billion trust certificates due 2023. The sukuk issuance represents a record low profit rate of 2.1 percent for the 2018 certificates and 3.24 percent for the 2023 certificates
Tags: White & Case LLPGlobal law firm White & Case LLP has advised the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as Lead Transaction Advisor and the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) as Grantor on the US$1.2 billion financing of a landmark transport infrastructure deal—the first public-private partnership (PPP) for an airport in the GCC region.
Tags: White & Case LLPGlobal law firm White & Case LLP has advised Barclays Bank PLC and HSBC Bank plc as Joint Lead Managers, and JSC Kazkommerts Securities as Kazakhstan Manager, on the offering of US$800 million 6.950 percent notes due 2042 by Kazakhstan Temir Zholy B.V.
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Former US Department of Justice attorney Jonathan C. Poling has joined Baker & McKenzie’s Washington, DC office as a partner, bolstering the Firm’s well-regarded trade compliance practice with significant experience in handling complex and international export control matters and trade-related investigations and prosecutions.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as lead arrangers and bookrunners in connection with a $1 billion 364-day credit facility for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
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Davis Polk advised NBCUniversal Media, LLC in connection with its acquisition of the 50% share of the MSNBC Digital Network joint venture that it did not previously own from Microsoft Corporation.
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