Davis Polk – Royal Philips Electronics $1.5 Billion Notes Offering

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Davis Polk advised Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. of $1.5 billion principal amount of notes. The offering consisted of $1 billion principal amount of 3.75% notes due 2022 and $500 million principal amount of 5% notes due 2042.

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Davis Polk – Masco Notes Offering

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Masco Corporation of $400 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.95% notes due 2022.

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Perkins Coie Adds White Collar Capabilities in New York

Monday, March 12, 2012
Perkins Coie announced today that Keith Miller has joined the firm as Partner in the Investigations & White Collar Defense practice in New York and will serve as Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement practice. He joins the firm from Paul Hastings and is a former SEC enforcement attorney.

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Morgan Lewis Advises Sprouts Farmers Market on Merger with Sunflower

Monday, March 12, 2012
Sprouts Farmers Market (“Sprouts”) and Sunflower Farmers Market (“Sunflower”), two independent natural food store chains, announced today the execution of a definitive agreement to merge.  The combined company will operate 139 stores under the Sprouts Farmers Market name and will have approximately 10,000 employees. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012.

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Davis Polk – Range Resources Corporation $600 Million Senior Subordinated Notes Offering

Monday, March 12, 2012
Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Range Resources Corporation of $600 million principal amount of its 5% senior subordinated notes due 2022. The notes were guaranteed on a senior subordinated basis by the subsidiaries of Range Resources.

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Two Prominent Employee Benefits Attorneys Join Littler’s Growing Southern California Presence

Monday, March 12, 2012
Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Mark J. Grushkin and Samuel H. Stein to the firm’s Employee Benefits Practice in Century City. The duo, formerly partners with Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP, are the latest arrivals at the firm’s growing Southern California practice. In recent months, Littler has added several new attorneys to its Century City and downtown Los Angeles offices.

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Freshfields Advises on Ziggo IPO

Monday, March 12, 2012
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Ziggo N.V., the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, on its global offering and listing on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam, acting as Ziggo’s lead Dutch, US and English counsel. The offering is a secondary sale by the company’s founding shareholders, which include affiliates of Cinven and Warburg Pincus.

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Husch Blackwell Leads Novelis Inc. in $350 Million Acquisition of Minority Interest in Subsidiary Novelis Korea

Monday, March 12, 2012
Husch Blackwell served as lead outside counsel to Novelis Inc. in connection with its $350 million acquisition of a 31 percent minority interest in its Korean subsidiary, Novelis Korea Ltd. The deal closed December 28, 2011, and was the culmination of two years’ work with the world-leading company of aluminum rolling and recycling.

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