The Haynes and Boone, LLP New York office has expanded its intellectual property litigation capabilities with the addition of two experienced partners, John Hintz and Richard D. Rochford.
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Hogan Lovells Advises PDVSA on $US3 Billion Bond Issuance
Hogan Lovells advised Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in its US$3 billion bond issuance. The issuance, which is PDVSA’s first of 2012, was announced by the company on 11 May 2012.
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Paul Hastings Advises Digital Reality Trust in Joint Venture with Savvis
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is advising Digital Realty Trust, a leading global data center solution provider, in the launch of a joint venture with Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions, to acquire a 165,000-square-foot property located in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Hong Kong’s New Territories.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | ShanghaiPaul Hastings Advises Cequel Data Centers in Acquisition of Tierpoint, LLC
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Cequel Data Centers, a data center operating company managed by an affiliate of Cequel III and owned by Cequel III and a consortium of private equity firms, in acquiring TierPoint, LLC, a leading provider of collocation, managed I.T. and cloud computing services in the Pacific Northwest.
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Shearman & Sterling Advises on Complex Financing for Emerald Performance Materials
Shearman & Sterling advised Jefferies Finance LLC as sole lead arranger, administrative agent and syndication agent in connection with a $300 million first lien senior secured term facility for Emerald Performance Materials, LLC. Additionally, a complex triple-layer intercreditor structure was negotiated among the first and second lien term loan secured parties as well as with the secured parties under a separate new asset-based revolving credit facility.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkEnvironmental Attorney Steven L. Hoch Joins Morris Polich & Purdy LLP as Partner
Morris Polich & Purdy LLP (MPP) is pleased to announce that Steven L. Hoch has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as Partner.
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Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice Advises Armada D1 Pte Ltd on Bridge Loan Facility of US$100m
The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams LLP (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that it advised Armada D1 Pte. Ltd. in relation to a bridge loan facility of an initial amount of US$100,000,000 made available by Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Indian Overseas Bank, with Bank of India, Singapore Branch acting as agent for the lenders.
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Littler Expands Attorney Ranks with the Addition of Margaret A. Keane to its San Francisco Office
Margaret A. Keane, formerly a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, has joined Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, as a shareholder in its San Francisco office. Signaling Littler’s continued growth nationally and internationally, Keane’s arrival comes on the heels of a number of recent additions to Littler’s expanding global practice, including the arrival of Michael Lotito to its Northern California office from Jackson Lewis.
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Akin Gump Advises Zhongpin Inc. Special Committee on Take-Private Offer
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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Simpson Thacher Represents Blackstone in its Acquisition of the Motel 6 and Studio 6 Division from Accor
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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