Fenwick & West LLP, a leading technology and life sciences law firm, is pleased to announce that Jake Handy, a highly-regarded life sciences technology transactions attorney, has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Handy will divide his time as a partner among the firm’s Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Seattle offices.
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International law firm, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, is advising shareholders of Harbourmaster Capital on its sale to GSO Capital Partners, the global credit platform of The Blackstone Group. Established in March 2000, Harbourmaster Capital manages and advises on approximately €8.0 billion of senior secured loans and infrastructure debt. GSO is one of the largest global credit-oriented alternative managers and an active participant in the leveraged finance market.
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The Seattle office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Charles P. (Charlie) Carter as a partner in its corporate practice. Carter joins K&L Gates from the Summit Law Group, PLLC.
Tags: K&L Gates LLP Davis Polk – Smucker’s $750 Million Debut Registered Notes Offering
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.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York Former DOJ Deputy Assistant AG Molly Boast Joins WilmerHale
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that former Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney General Molly Boast has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice. Boast joins the firm with more than 30 years of litigation experience in the public and private sector, including leadership positions at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and in private practice. Boast will be an integral member of the firm’s New York office and its global Antitrust and Competition Practice, and will lead high-profile antitrust regulatory and litigation matters for the firm’s clients.
Tags: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | New YorkPaul Hastings Represents Maker Maxity in Landmark Mumbai Transactions
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has represented Maker Maxity in the signing of definitive agreements with MGM Hospitality, a wholly owned subsidiary of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM), for the development and operation of a Bellagio hotel, an MGM Grand hotel, and a Skylofts hotel, as part of the landmark Maker Maxity mixed-use development complex in Mumbai, India.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Los Angeles Hogan Lovells Advises SABMiller on US$1.9bn Strategic Alliance
Hogan Lovells has advised long-standing client SABMiller on a strategic alliance with the Anadolu Group and Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş. (Anadolu Efes) to transfer its Russian and Ukrainian beer businesses to Anadolu Efes in a transaction worth approximately US$1.9bn which signed yesterday, Tuesday 18 October 2011.
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Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as lead managers for General Electric Capital Corporation (GE Capital) in connection with an SEC-registered debt shelf takedown offering by GE Capital of $1.25 billion of its 3.35% senior unsecured global medium-term notes, series A due 2016 and of $1.75 billion of its 4.65% senior unsecured global medium-term notes, series A due 2021, under its U.S. Medium-Term Notes Program.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York Energy and Global Transactions Partner Thomas McCaffrey Joins Akin Gump’s Houston Office
Thomas McCaffrey has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Houston office as a partner in its energy and global transactions practice. Previously, Mr. McCaffrey was a partner in the Houston office of an international law firm.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Houston McDermott Government Strategies Practice Expands Capitol Hill Team
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced today the appointment of four top lobbyist advisors to its growing Washington-based Government Strategies practice group. The team – Edward (Teddy) Eynon, Peggy Binzer, Mark Harkins, and Erica Stocker – joins the Washington, D.C. office from another AmLaw 100 firm.
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