Husch Blackwell represented Algonquin Power Co. (APCo), the renewable power generation subsidiary of Toronto-based Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC), in an $888 million deal in which APCo will acquire a 480 megawatt portfolio of four wind projects in the United States from Spain’s Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A. (Gamesa). The deal was announced Friday, March 9.
Tags: Husch Blackwell LLP Kwame Raoul Joins Quarles & Brady
The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Illinois State Senator Kwame Y. Raoul has joined the Firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Labor & Employment Group.
Tags: Quarles & Brady LLP Shearman & Sterling Represents Credit Suisse Securities (USA) in Cheniere Energy’s Public Offering of Common Stock
Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as underwriter of a public offering of 21,000,000 shares of Cheniere Energy, Inc. common stock, with an over-allotment option of 3,150,000 exercised by the underwriter, for a total of 24,150,000 shares.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York Shearman & Sterling Advises on American Tower Corporation Notes Offering
Shearman & Sterling worked on an offering of investment grade notes of American Tower Corporation, a wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure company with a portfolio of over 45,000 communications sites, including wireless and broadcast towers located in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Ghana, Mexico, Peru and South Africa. Shearman & Sterling represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan and other joint bookrunning managers Citigroup, Mizuho Securities, Morgan Stanley and TD Securities, on the shelf takedown of $700 million of 4.70% Senior Notes due 2022. American Tower Corporation plans to use the proceeds to refinance the existing indebtedness it incurred under credit facilities, which have been used to fund recent acquisitions.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York Dewey & LeBoeuf Represents eBay on Sale of Rent.com
Dewey & LeBoeuf is representing eBay Inc. in its sale of Rent.com to PRIMEDIA. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Bird & Bird Boosts Asian Offices with Five New Partners
As part of a strategic drive to expand our client service offering in the Asia-Pacific region, we are delighted to welcome five new partners to our offices in Asia. Four join us from other firms and one has been appointed internally.
Tags: Bird & Bird LLP | Singapore Gregory G. Marshall, Former Deputy Chief of Criminal Division of D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, Joins Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as Partner
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its White Collar Criminal Defense practice group with the addition of Gregory G. Marshall as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Marshall spent 12 years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District, and served for 20 months as Deputy Chief of its federal court Criminal Division.
Tags: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Clifford Chance advises selling shareholders Cinven and Warburg Pincus on Ziggo’s IPO
International law firm Clifford Chance advised selling shareholders Cinven and Warburg Pincus on the IPO of the Netherlands’ largest cable operator Ziggo N.V. on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam. Ziggo’s ordinary shares offered in the IPO have been priced at €18.50 per ordinary share resulting in a market capitalization of €3.7 billion. The total offering size amounts to approximately €804 million. This makes it the largest European IPO to be launched in almost a year and the largest in the Netherlands since 2009.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Miriam Fisher and Brian McManus have joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as partners in the Tax Department. Both Fisher and McManus have deep experience in federal tax controversy and litigation, representing clients in both civil and criminal matters.
Tags: Latham & Watkins LLP Simpson Thacher Represents First Data Corporation in Refinancing
The Firm recently represented First Data Corporation (“First Data”) in steps designed to increase its flexibility and options to refinance and extend the maturities of its current capital structure. To effect these changes, First Data entered into an amendment with lenders under its existing senior secured credit facilities. First Data also sold $845 million aggregate principal amount of additional 7.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2019 in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S.
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