Simpson Thacher represented TSG Consumer Partners LLC (TSG) in connection with the completed offering of its sixth fund, TSG6 L.P. (the “Fund”).  The Fund raised $1.3 billion in Limited Partnership Interests. TSG is the recognized leader in the United States in building and investing in leading middle-market branded consumer companies.

Fenwick & West represented SuccessFactors, Inc. (NYSE: SFSF) in its acquisition by SAP America, Inc. (NYSE: SAP). The transaction is valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

Shearman & Sterling represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank as joint book-running managers and representatives of the several managers in connection with Amgen’s offering of €550,000,000 4.375% Senior Notes due 2018 and £475,000,000 5.50% Senior Notes due 2026. The offering was conducted in accordance with Regulation S.

The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today that it will open a new office in Tel Aviv, in early 2012. The firm’s 34th office will provide legal services to clients in Israel who need U.S. and U.K. counsel, as well as legal services from other international jurisdictions. Attorneys in the new office will not practice Israeli law. The office is the first international full-time legal office of its kind in Israel.

The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP and 113-year-old, Denver-based Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) will combine their practices effective Jan. 1, 2012, following a recent vote by the partners of both firms. Globally, the firm will continue to be known as Bryan Cave LLP. The combination will add exceptional legal capabilities in energy, natural resources and sports law to Bryan Cave’s international resources while expanding the firm’s worldwide presence into the Rocky Mountain region and adding significant new depth and experience in California.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that intellectual property lawyer Brian Buroker has joined the Washington, D.C. office as a partner. Previously the head of Hunton & Williams’ intellectual property practice, Buroker will continue to practice patent, trade secret and IP litigation.

Thompson Coburn LLP is pleased to announce that Robert E. Wallace Jr., former general counsel and executive vice president of the St. Louis Rams, is joining the firm as a partner. Wallace will start at the firm Jan. 2. He will pursue a business law practice and lead the firm’s Sports Law Group.

Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Joni L. Andrioff to its expanding Employee Benefits practice as a shareholder in the firm’s Chicago office.  Andrioff joins Littler from Deloitte Tax, LLP where she was a principal and served as Midwest Regional Leader in its Compensation and Benefits group. A skillful lawyer in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation, Andrioff brings more than 20 years of experience to Littler’s Employee Benefits practice and increases the firm’s attorney ranks in Chicago.