Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce that Clara Shin has joined the firm’s litigation practice as a partner. She will be resident in the firm’s San Francisco office.
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Global law firm Clyde & Co is delighted to announce the arrival of partners Kim West and Bill Lutz, senior counsel Alec Boyd, and associates Preeti Singh and Thomas Cheswick. The team joins Clyde & Co from Tucker Ellis & West LLP.
Tags: Clyde & Co LLP | San Francisco King & Wood Mallesons Acts on Australia’s Largest Property Transaction in 2012
King & Wood Mallesons has advised CFS Retail Property Trust on the sale of a 50 per cent stake in Brisbane’s Myer Centre, representing the largest property transaction in Australia to date in 2012.
Tags: King & Wood Mallesons Wendy Lazerson Joins Sidley Austin as a Partner in Palo Alto
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Wendy M. Lazerson is joining the firm’s Labor, Employment and Immigration practice as a partner in the Palo Alto office.
Tags: Sidley Austin LLP | Silicon Valley Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in $300 Million Debt Offering for Domtar Corporation
The Firm recently represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities and Goldman, Sachs & Co., in a public offering of $300 million of 4.40% Senior Notes due 2020 by Domtar Corporation. The Notes are guaranteed by certain subsidiaries of Domtar Corporation.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New York Simpson Thacher Represents Nielsen in $1.0 Billion Secondary Offering of Common Stock
The Firm recently represented Nielsen Holdings N.V. (“Nielsen”), a portfolio company of AlpInvest Partners, The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Centerview Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Thomas H. Lee Partners (together, the “Sponsors”) in connection with a secondary offering of 34,500,000 shares of Nielsen’s common stock. The offering closed at a public offering price of $30.25 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the Sponsors of approximately $1.0 billion.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New York Pillsbury Expands Communications Practice in Washington
Pillsbury today announced that Lew Paper, formerly a partner at Dickstein Shapiro LLP, has joined the firm’s Communications practice as a partner in its Washington, DC office. Accompanying Paper from Dickstein Shapiro is Communications counsel Andrew S. Kersting.
Tags: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP WilmerHale Advises SS&C Technologies in $906.5 Million Bid Takeover
In a bidding war for London-based GlobeOp Financial Services, WilmerHale represented SS&C Technologies in its takeover cash offer of $906.5 million. The bid topped an $805 million offer from buyout house TPG Capital, announced earlier this year in February. SS&C has offered to pay $7.69 per share for GlobeOp – an 11 percent premium on TPG’s bid. The deal has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of SS&C and the independent directors of GlobeOp.
Tags: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | New York Davis Polk Advises Eike Batista’s EBX Group on Its Strategic Partnership with Mubadala
Davis Polk is advising Eike Batista’s EBX Group on its strategic partnership with Mubadala Development Company. Mubadala will make a $2 billion investment in exchange for a 5.63% preferred equity interest in Centennial Asset Brazilian Equity Fund LLC and other offshore holding companies of Mr. Batista.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York Haynes and Boone Welcomes Senior Real Estate Practitioner
Veteran real estate attorney David L. Fields has joined the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group.
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