A team of attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has been retained by a special committee of Chinese pork and produce processor Zhongpin Inc. to evaluate a preliminary offer from the company’s CEO to buy out shareholders and take Zhongpin private.
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The Firm is representing an affiliate of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII in connection with its proposed acquisition of Accor’s United States Economy Hotels Division for $1.9 billion. The division, which includes Motel 6 and Studio 6, an extended-stay economy chain, currently has more than 1,100 locations with more than 105,000 rooms in the United States and Canada and is the largest owned and operated hotel chain in North America. Accor is a leading hotel operator based in France with a presence in 92 countries. The transaction is expected to close in October 2012, subject to Accor’s unwinding of leases and customary closing conditions.
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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, welcomes Eric Berezin as a shareholder to the firm’s Atlanta office. Berezin practices in the areas of employment law and workplace safety and health with an emphasis on litigation. He joins Ogletree Deakins from the Atlanta office of Duane Morris where he was a partner. Previously, he was a partner and head of the labor and employment group at Powell Goldstein. With the addition of Berezin, Ogletree Deakins continues its nation-wide growth in response to continuing client demand. Since January 2012, Ogletree Deakins has added shareholders in its Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, and Philadelphia offices.
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Duane Morris LLP announced today that it is adding 16 Dewey & LeBoeuf lawyers to the firm, with extensive experience in areas such as corporate, insurance regulatory, energy, trial, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, tax and employee benefits law. The lawyers will join Duane Morris in the New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. offices. The combination builds on Duane Morris’ broad national insurance, energy and technology practices, offering clients an expanded array of services.
Tags: Duane Morris LLP | New YorkLatham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Robin Fredrickson and Jeffrey Mun͂oz have joined the firm’s Houston office as partners in the Corporate Department. Together, they bring significant experience handling M&A, finance and related transactions in the oil and gas industry.
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Proskauer announced today that Ralph C. Ferrara, one of the nation’s foremost securities and corporate governance lawyers, will join the firm together with his highly regarded colleagues, Partners Ann M. Ashton, Jonathan E. Richman and Tanya J. Dmitronow. All come from Dewey & LeBoeuf, where Mr. Ferrara was the firm’s Vice Chair, and Mr. Richman and Ms. Ashton served as co-heads of its Securities, M&A and Corporate Governance Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Ferrara and Ms. Ashton join the firm’s Washington, DC office, and Mr. Richman and Ms. Dmitronow join its New York office.
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Dayan R. Rosen has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Leveraged Finance Practice. Mr. Rosen comes to Manatt from Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles.
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Munger, Tolles & Olson represented HealthCare Partners in a significant transaction for the healthcare industry. DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services, agreed on May 20, 2012 to acquire Healthcare Partners, the nation’s largest operator of medical groups and physician networks, for $4.42 billion.
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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC), a preeminent US movie exhibitor, in an agreement to be acquired by Dalian Wanda Group Co., Ltd. (Wanda), a leading Chinese private conglomerate and China’s largest investor in cultural and entertainment activities, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.6 billion.
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Jeffrey B. Coopersmith, a former federal prosecutor with extensive experience defending clients in white-collar criminal matters, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner. He will practice out of the firm’s Seattle and San Francisco offices.
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