Global law firm White & Case LLP has won a significant trademark victory for Trek 2000 International Ltd., inventor of the ThumbDrive™ USB flash drive. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held that Trek’s highly valuable ThumbDrive™ trademark is not generic and is entitled to registration on the principal register of the USPTO. As a result of this November 30, 2010 ruling, Trek alone is able to sell these ubiquitous flash drives in the United States under the ThumbDrive™ brand.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., in connection with a registered follow-on offering of 10,350,000 shares of common stock of RealPage, Inc., which includes the shares that were sold pursuant to the over-allotment option exercised by the underwriters, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of $266.5 million.  RealPage, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand software solutions for the rental housing industry.  RealPage’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “RP.”

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Adams and Reese Attorneys Vic Lott and Andy Freeman served as legal advisors to the Jackson, Miss.-based timberland investment management organization, The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC, which announced, on behalf of a client, that they completed the successful purchase of approximately 14,280 acres in East Texas for a purchase price of $18.4 million. This property was purchased from Cambium Corrigan Limited Partnership, an entity of Cambium Global Timberland Limited.

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International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has advised Velosi Limited on its public takeover by Azul Holding 2 S.à r.l. This involved advising on the acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Velosi for £87.8m.

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The Firm represented affiliates of The Blackstone Group in connection with its acquisition from ProLogis of a portfolio of 182 industrial properties comprising over 23 million square feet of space in 19 states and 28 markets.  The 182 industrial assets are leased to over 500 tenants.  ProLogis has retained a preferred equity interest of approximately $190 million in the Blackstone entity that acquired the portfolio. The acquisition was financed by a $514 million syndicated five-year senior secured term loan originated by Wells Fargo.

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Olswang has acted for BBC Worldwide in the £97m sale to Discovery of their remaining 50% stake of the global channel network Animal Planet. A separate part of the deal was the extension of the BBC’s co-production deal with Discovery which guarantees the latter’s investment into the making of natural history and factual programmes.

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Hogan Lovells has advised JP Morgan as sole bookrunner on an equity placing by Helical Bar to raise gross proceeds of £29 million. The placing completed on 8 December.

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RealD Inc. (NYSE:  RLD), a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, today closed on a secondary offering of 8,987,251 shares of RealD common stock, including 1,172,250 shares issued upon the exercise in full of the underwriters over-allotment option, at the public offering price of $27.75 per share.  All of the shares were sold by existing stockholders and RealD did not sell any shares of common stock in the secondary offering and will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.

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International law firm Pinsent Masons is advising Yule Catto & Co plc (Yule Catto), the international producer of speciality chemicals on its acquisition of the entire share capital of PolymerLatex Deutschland GmbH (PolymerLatex), the leading global player in latex products, for €443 million (£376 million) from Towerbrook Capital Partners (UK). Completion is conditional upon approval by Yule Catto’s shareholders at a general meeting to be held on 30 December 2010 and by European competition authorities.

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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) on the launch of its 130th anniversary series of debentures at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The debentures will entitle the holders to have a priority right to purchase tickets for all of the Welsh national team’s home rugby matches for the next fifteen years.

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