Looper Reed & McGraw, a full-service Texas-based law firm with more than 110 lawyers in Houston, Dallas and Tyler, today announced it had expanded services at its Dallas office by establishing an IP section with two experienced IP/Patent attorneys – David Henry as the section head, and Katarzyna Brozynski as a member. The firm also bolstered their family law section with the addition of a new Dallas associate, Clint Brown.
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Kirkland Advises ABRY Partners in $1.36 Billion Sale of Atlantic Broadband
Kirkland & Ellis represents ABRY Partners and its portfolio company Atlantic Broadband Group, LLC in the $1.36 billion sale of Atlantic to Cogeco Cable Inc., a Canadian company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Environmental and Agribusiness Attorney David L. Cook Joins LeClairRyan
David L. Cook has joined the law firm of LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the Business Litigation and Environmental Practice Area Teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Rochester office.
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Shearman & Sterling Advises on $14.5 Billion Financing for Abbott Laboratories
Shearman & Sterling represented Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Barclays Bank Plc, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $14.5 billion aggregate financing, including a $5 billion five-year revolving credit facility for Abbot Laboratories, a $2 billion five-year revolving credit facility for Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie Inc. and a $7.5 billion 364-day bridge guaranteed financing for AbbVie Inc. These financing transactions will be used, in part, in connection with transactions related to the spin-off of the research-based pharmaceuticals business of Abbott Laboratories.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling Advises on Banco Davivienda’s US$500 Million Subordinated Notes Offering
Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint bookrunners in connection with Banco Davivienda S.A.’s offering of US$500 million Subordinated Notes due 2022. Banco Davivienda S.A. is one of the largest financial institutions in Colombia and is a leading, integrated full service bank with the strongest consumer banking franchise in Colombia. This was Banco Davivienda’s first international offering.
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Robert Wagner, Former General Counsel and Acting Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, Joins the Insurance Services Practice of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Robert E. Wagner has joined the firm’s Insurance Services Practice. He will practice in Hinshaw’s Springfield, Illinois office. Mr. Wagner was previously general counsel of the Illinois Department of Insurance from 2003 – 2012 and served as Acting Director of the agency from late-2011 to early-2012. Since 1989, he had served as general counsel for the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan.
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Morgan Lewis Advises Pearson plc on Acquisition of Author Solutions
Pearson plc, the world’s leading learning company, today announced the acquisition of Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a premier provider of self-publishing services.
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O’Melveny Represents Coller Capital in Final Closing of Coller VI at US$5.5 Billion
O’Melveny & Myers LLP advised long-term client Coller Capital on its successful fund-raising for Coller VI. The fund raised US$5.5 billion, which makes it the second largest secondaries fundraising ever. This complex matter was handled by a global O’Melveny team of lawyers in London, the U.S. and Asia, and led by London partner John Daghlian and counsel Daniel Quinn.
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Zach Allen Joins Crowe & Dunlevy as Director
Crowe & Dunlevy recently announced Zach Allen has joined the firm as a director in the real estate practice group in the firm’s Oklahoma City office.
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Willkie Advises Alvarez & Marsal in Arctic Glacier’s Cross-Border Restructuring, US Court Approves $435 Million Company Sale
On July 17, it was announced that Winnipeg, Canada-based Arctic Glacier Inc. received approval for its $435 million purchase by Miami, Florida-based private equity firm HIG Capital LLC. On February 21, Arctic Glacier had initiated proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in the Court of Queen’s Bench, Manitoba, with U.S. affiliates of the packaged-ice producer filing for chapter 15 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court the following day. Willkie represents Alvarez & Marsal, the court-appointed Monitor in the Canadian CCAA proceedings and the foreign representative in the chapter 15 cases.
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