Covington & Burling LLP has applied to open a new office in Seoul and tapped William H.Y. Park, a veteran corporate lawyer based in Korea, to help oversee the expansion.
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Perkins Coie Adds White Collar Capabilities in New York
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
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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Barnes & Thornburg Strengthens Corporate Team in Chicago
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Nancy L. Schimmel has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Schimmel was previously a partner in the Chicago office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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Davis Polk – Range Resources Corporation $600 Million Senior Subordinated Notes Offering
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
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
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
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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Linklaters Advises Korea National Oil Corporation on Negotiation with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Linklaters has advised the Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) on the negotiation with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of significant oil and gas concession arrangements for the exploration and development of three concession areas in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. KNOC has entered into the arrangements as majority participant in a joint venture with GS Energy. The concession areas are estimated to contain 570 million barrels of oil in place with the possibility of significant additional exploration upside.
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Willkie Advises Insight Venture Partners in $2 Billion Buyout of Quest Software
On March 9, it was announced that Quest Software, Inc. has entered into definitive agreements with affiliates of Willkie client Insight Venture Partners, under which the database applications provider will be taken private in a deal valued at approximately $2 billion. The transaction, which has been widely reported in the press, calls for stockholders not affiliated with the buyout group to receive $23.00 per share in cash.
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