Simpson Thacher represented Mercantil Colpatria in connection with its sale to The Bank of Nova Scotia of 51 percent of the shares of Banco Colpatria. Mercantil will receive $500 million in cash and 10 million in common shares of Scotiabank pursuant to the transaction, which values Banco Colpatria at approximately $2 billion.  The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.

The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Larry Kanusher has joined the firm as a shareholder in the Entertainment and Media Practice. Kanusher joins Greenberg Traurig from Sony Music Entertainment where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for the company’s Global Digital Business group.

Morgan Lewis today announced that Jim Garrity—a restructuring practitioner who previously served for nine years as a Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of New York—has joined the firm as a partner in its Business and Finance practice, resident in New York. Mr. Garrity, who was most recently an equity partner at an international firm for 10 years, will lead the firm’s restructuring practice.

Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on the SEC-registered registered offering by The J. M. Smucker Company of $750 million of its 3.500% notes due 2021, its first public debt offering. The notes were guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by two of Smucker’s wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, J.M. Smucker LLC and The Folgers Coffee Company. In connection with the offering, the trustee, on behalf of the noteholders, entered into a joinder agreement to Smucker’s existing intercreditor agreement among the lenders and noteholders of Smucker’s other guaranteed debt.