Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that Daniel A. Nathan, the former Vice President and Regional Enforcement Director for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner, adding further scope to Morrison & Foerster’s enforcement capabilities in Washington, D.C., nationally and internationally.
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Mayer Brown LLP has snagged a former Thompson & Knight LLP partner as part of its efforts to expand its corporate and securities practice amid a climate of increasing drilling activities in 2012 and ongoing mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas sector, the firm said Monday.
Tags: Mayer Brown LLP | Houston Clifford Chance Advises Partners Group on Leveraged Management Buyout of Trimco International
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised global private markets investment manager Partners Group on the acquisition of Trimco International Holdings Limited, a global provider of garment label solutions to the garment manufacturing industry, on behalf of its clients. The acquisition, which was completed on 25 April, was structured as a leveraged buyout with the founder and senior management team of Trimco reinvesting a significant portion of their sale proceeds into the new company. Concurrently with the transaction, Trimco was negotiating a bolt-on acquisition of a UK-based international label solution provider, which completed shortly after the principal transaction closed and was funded as part of that transaction.
Tags: Clifford Chance LLP | Hong Kong Barnes & Thornburg Represents Wolverine World Wide in Acquisition of Collective Brands’ Performance + Lifestyle Group
Barnes & Thornburg announced today that the firm represented Wolverine World Wide Inc., one of the world’s leading marketers of branded casual, active lifestyle, work, outdoor sport and uniform footwear and apparel, in the negotiation and execution of a $2 billion agreement to acquire Collective Brands, Inc. In making its bid, Wolverine joined with San Francisco-based private equity firms Golden Gate Capital and Blum Capital Partners.
Tags: Barnes & Thornburg LLP Davis Polk – Sahara Hotel & Casino $300 Million Construction Financing
Davis Polk advised Stockbridge Real Estate Funds in connection with a $300 million construction financing arranged by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as lead arranger, with Keycorp Real Estate Capital Markets, Inc., as administrative and disbursement agent, for the renovation and repositioning of the Sahara Hotel & Casino (to be renamed the SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas) by a joint venture between the Stockbridge Funds and an affiliate of SBE Entertainment Group, LLC.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York Shearman & Sterling Advises on $2 Billion Financing for News America Incorporated
Shearman & Sterling advised J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $2 billion five year revolving credit facility for News America Incorporated.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York K&L Gates Strengthens Commercial Disputes Practice with Charleston Partner Addition
The Charleston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Richard A. Farrier Jr. as a partner in its commercial disputes practice. Farrier joins K&L Gates from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, where he was Managing Partner of the firm’s Charleston office.
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King & Wood Mallesons has bolstered its leading competition practice with the lateral hire of Stephen Ridgeway, one of Australia’s preeminent and most respected competition lawyers.
Weil – Centerbridge Partners in $1.1B Deal to Take P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. Private
Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners announced today an agreement with P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc., a restaurant chain, to take the company private in a leveraged buyout deal valued at $1.1 billion. Global law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges was counsel to Centerbridge on the transaction.
Tags: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP | New York Paul, Weiss Advises on $2.15 Billion Sale of L.A. Dodgers
Paul, Weiss assisted Major League Baseball in the $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Guggenheim Baseball Management as widely reported yesterday by Bloomberg News, ESPN, Fox News, The L.A. Times and Sports Illustrated, amongst others. The new management group consists of Magic Johnson, incoming Dodgers’ President Stan Kasten, and controlling owner Mark Walter, chief executive of Chicago-based Guggenheim Financial.
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