Weil advised Lincare Holdings Inc., a Florida-based, publicly-traded provider of oxygen and respiratory therapy services to patients in the home, in its $4.6 billion sale to German conglomerate Linde AG, one of the world’s leading providers of industrial air and gas products.

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Weil advised Mubadala Development Company PJSC, a strategic investment arm of the Abu Dhabi Government, in the formation of a joint venture with Sony/ATV and a consortium of co-investors – including GSO Capital Partners, Jynwel Capital and film and music mogul David Geffen – to acquire EMI’s music publishing business for $2.2 billion. The transaction closed on June 29, 2012 following clearance by EU and US antitrust regulators. Weil also advised the full consortium on numerous aspects of the transaction, including negotiation of the acquisition agreements with Citigroup and EMI and the $1.25 billion senior secured and $403.3 million senior notes financing for the acquisition.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented RBC Capital Markets as lead arranger and bookrunner in a $400 million amendment to extend an existing facility for Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC, the largest independent owner and operator of natural gas storage in North America.

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Shearman & Sterling represented Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Barclays Bank PLC, Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., UBS Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as arrangers in connection with a $1.62 billion term loan and a $250 million revolving credit facility related to the acquisition of Above Net, Inc. by Zayo Group, LLC.

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