Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, which represents U.S. and international clients across a wide spectrum of legal specialties, is expanding its national presence by merging  with White O’Connor Fink & Brenner LLP, a highly respected Los Angeles litigation firm best known for its success in complex business and entertainment industry litigation.

Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with the SEC-registered secondary offering of 30,000,000 shares of common stock of NXP Semiconductors N.V. The underwriters also exercised an option to purchase an additional 4,431,000 shares from the selling stockholders. The aggregate price to the public was $1,033 million. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “NXPI.”

Davis Polk advised Repsol YPF, S.A. and YPF, S.A. in connection with the public offering by Repsol of 30,145,898 American Depository Shares (ADSs) of YPF. The gross proceeds to Repsol from the offering were over $1.2 billion. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Itaú BBA, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James and Santander Investment acted as underwriters for the offering.

The Firm recently represented Barclays Capital Inc. in connection with InterDigital, Inc.’s offering of $230 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 2016.

Fenwick & West LLP represented its client Diamond Foods, Inc. in its pending merger with the Pringles business of The Procter & Gamble Company (“P&G”). Pringles is the world’s largest potato crisp brand with sales in over 140 countries and manufacturing operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The global, iconic brand will join Diamond’s dynamic portfolio of brands, which includes Diamond of California and Emerald nuts, Pop Secret microwave popcorn and Kettle Brand potato chips.

Hogan Lovells US LLP announced today that it advised News Corporation on the acquisition of Shine Group, the international television production group, which closed today.

Shearman & Sterling represented Goldman Sachs International and Merrill Lynch International as initial purchasers in Ontex IV S.A.’s offering of €320 million senior fixed rate secured notes due 2018, €280 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2018 and €235 million senior secured fixed rate notes due 2019.

Clifford Chance has today announced the formal opening of its new office in Istanbul, supporting clients in Turkey and across South East Europe.