Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC , Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with the registered public offering of $600 million principal amount of 2.750% Senior Notes due 2017 and $400 million principal amount of 3.950% Senior Notes due 2022 of Symantec Corporation.
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National law firm Polsinelli Shughart welcomes veteran policy consultants Andy Wright, as shareholder, and Tracy Hammond, as a senior policy advisor, to the firm’s national Public Policy Group. Highly experienced in their field, Wright and Hammond will lobby and provide consulting and strategic advice on behalf of firm clients, including those within the energy, environment and telecommunications industries.
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Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that it has represented Dubai-based Friendi Group in its strategic partnership agreement with Virgin Group to establish Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa.
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O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that prominent UK entertainment transactions lawyer Lisbeth “Libby” Savill will be joining the Firm in August as a partner in the Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice. She will be based in O’Melveny’s London office. Savill is the former head of Olswang LLP’s Film and Television team.“
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The California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) announced today that, in cooperation with the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, financial close has been reached on the Presidio Parkway Project public-private partnership (“P3”). A Nossaman team, led by Barney Allison, advised Caltrans on the procurement, financing and contracts for the project. The $1.1 billion deal will be the first transportation P3 in California under the recently enacted P3 statute, Streets and Highways Code section 143, and only the third highway project developed through an availability payment structure.
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DLA Piper secured a significant victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for Inergy, L.P. and its subsidiary Central New York Oil And Gas Company, L.L.C. (CNYOG) in an important case that clears the way for the development of the company’s $257 million Marcellus Shale gas pipeline project.
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Harry Clark and Clark McFadden for Washington legal jobs, according to a press release.
Clark comes aboard as a partner while McFadden joins the firm as a senior counsel. The two attorneys joined the international law firm after leaving Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Tags: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe recently hired Dmitry Gubarev and Leo Batalov to serve as partners in Moscow legal jobs, according to a press release.
Gubarev joins the banking and debt capital markets group with a focus on finance, banking, transactions, and capital markets.
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Patton Boggs LLP is strengthening its M&A, Capital Markets, Litigation, Energy and Islamic Finance practices with the addition of eight professionals formerly affiliated with Dewey & LeBoeuf. Five of these professionals will form a Patton Boggs affiliate office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, while two will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and one in New York.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Ellen L. Darling and Brendan M. Ford as partners in the firm’s Orange County office. Darling, Ford, and three associates join K&L Gates’ product liability practice from Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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