The global law firm Jones Day has announced that dispute resolution partner Mike Pollen and corporate partner Kevin Murphy have joined the Firm’s Singapore Office. Both partners provide additional depth to Jones Day’s regional capabilities.
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Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Brinton M. Scott has recently joined its Shanghai office as a partner and will focus on corporate, intellectual property, and employment law matters, including those involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and foreign direct investments. Scott was most recently a partner for Clyde & Co. He will be joined by two corporate associates, Jerry (Zhan) Liu and Sabrina Yang, also from Clyde.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP is strengthening its global mining capabilities with the hire of John Tivey, who joins the Firm as a partner from Freehills in Melbourne, Australia, where he headed that firm’s mining practice.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $1 billion unsecured financing for Tyco International Finance S.A.; represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $750 million unsecured financing for The ADT Corporation, a division of Tyco International; and represented Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $2.225 billion unsecured bridge facility for The ADT Corporation.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling is representing B/E Aerospace, Inc. (B/E Aerospace) and its wholly owned subsidiary, B/E Aerospace Systems Holding GmbH, in its acquisition of Interturbine Projekt Management GmbH (IPM) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries for approximately EUR 200 million in cash.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with a $500 million debtor-in-possession and exit financing for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc. and certain of its affiliates (the “Company”). The financing, consisting of a secured term loan facility and an asset-based revolving credit facility, was in conjunction with a pre-arranged bankruptcy filing of the Company that resulted in confirmation of the Company’s plan of reorganization and emergence from chapter 11 in just over 30 days.
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Continuing the expansion of its global disputes practice, King & Spalding has added partners Henry G. (“Harry”) Burnett and James E. Berger in its New York office.
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Polsinelli Shughart welcomes veteran litigator Jonathan N. Rosen as shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Highly recognized and experienced in his field, Rosen is a former federal and state prosecutor with substantial experience representing individuals and corporate clients in complex white collar matters. His clients include hospitals, provider groups, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, energy companies, government contractors and other commercial entities.
Tags: Polsinelli PCChadbourne & Parke represented FOVISSSTE in the successful placement of its twelfth mortgage loan portfolio securitization, known as TFOVIS, which amounted to US$439 million.
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Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch as administrative agent and joint lead arranger of a $250 million term loan facility provided to NCI Building Systems, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Metl-Span LLC. The term loan is secured on a crossing first-lien/second-lien basis with NCI Building System’s existing $150 million asset-based revolving credit facility. Proceeds from the term loan were used to finance acquisition costs.
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