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.
Tags: Haynes and Boone, LLP | Dallas Schiff Hardin LLP Welcomes French Practice To The New York Office
Philippe Manteau and Randi S.K. Rosenblatt have joined Schiff Hardin LLP as a Partner and Associate, respectively, in the Corporate and Securities Group from Watson, Farley & Williams in New York.
Tags: Schiff Hardin LLP | New York Venable LLP Lands Prominent Real Estate Partners
Leading law firm Venable LLP announced today that three Real Estate partners – Mitch Evall and Andrew Schmerzler from Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP (WWBCGE) and Valentin Aguilar II from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (Manatt) – have joined the firm to spearhead the growth of Venable’s newly established West Coast Real Estate Practice. The experienced team joins Venable’s well-established national Real Estate Group, which includes more than 40 attorneys.
Tags: Venable LLP | Los Angeles Shearman & Sterling Advises SIGMA3 on Three Acquisitions
Shearman & Sterling is advising SIGMA3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions Corporation (SIGMA3), a Symphony Technology Group company, on its strategic acquisitions of APEX Petroleum Engineering Inc. (APEXPE), APEXHiPoint LLC., (APEXHP) and HiPoint Reservoir Imaging LLC. (HiPoint). Terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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