Kirkland & Ellis LLP Advises Monomoy Capital Partners in Final Closing of $400 Million Second Fund

Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Monomoy Capital Partners in the closing of its second fund, Monomoy Capital Partners II, L.P. (“Fund II”), with $400 million of limited partner commitments. Monomoy’s Fund II, which exceeded the firm’s $350 million fundraising target, was significantly oversubscribed at its final closing. Monomoy secured commitments from a substantial majority of its existing investors and added a number of high-quality new investors from Europe and the United States to its limited partner base.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in $157 Million Initial Public Offering of Nuveen Build America Bond Opportunity Fund

Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Nuveen Investments, LLC, in connection with the initial public offering of Nuveen Build America Bond Opportunity Fund (the “Fund”). The offering raised approximately $157 million, assuming full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

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Stamford Law Advises AVIC Kairong on its Acquisition of Listing Status

Stamford Law Corporation is advising AVIC Kairong on its acquisition of listing status through an Implementation Agreement it has signed with Sino-Environment Technology Group Limited, an SGX-ST Main Board listed company currently under judicial management whose shares are currently suspended from trading.

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Shearman & Sterling Advises on Precision Drilling Corporation’s $650 Million Private Placement of Senior Notes

Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as joint bookrunning managers, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and TD Securities (USA) LLC, as senior co-managers, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as co-managers, in connection with Precision Drilling Corporation’s private placement of $650 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.625% Senior Notes due 2020. The notes are guaranteed by certain of Precision’s subsidiaries.

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Knobbe Martens – Hologic Acquires Gyn Developer Interlace Medical for $125M

Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (Nasdaq: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, announced today it has acquired Interlace Medical, Inc. (Interlace), the developer and manufacturer of the MyoSure hysteroscopic tissue removal system (MyoSure). Interlace’s operations will be integrated within Hologic’s GYN Surgical Products division.

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Weil’s Dallas Office Wins String of Pro Bono Asylum Cases

Within the past two years, including most recently in December 2010, the Dallas office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has established a solid track record of victories in asylum cases, winning pro bono matters on behalf of victims of persecution based on political beliefs or sexual orientation. The attorneys have won three asylum cases and one “no deport” outcome for clients ranging from individuals to families of dissidents from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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Alston & Bird Represents Pamlico Capital in Recapitalization of CLEARLINK

Alston & Bird represented Pamlico Capital in its recapitalization of CLEARLINK, a rapidly growing provider of performance-based customer acquisition solutions to some of the largest suppliers of home services in the United States.  The Alston & Bird team was led by Brian Ives, and included partners Clare Draper, Christopher Gegg, Michael Johnson, Blake MacKay and Jason Sneed.

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Linklaters Advises Banks on Financing of the Biggest Wind-energy Project in the German North Sea

After almost three years of developing the project, now the way is cleared for the construction of the Trianel Wind Farm Borkum (TWB). At the TWB general meeting, the 34 shareholders from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland agreed on the construction resolution regardingthe first construction phase of the offshore wind farm; the corresponding financing agreements have now been signed in Frankfurt. Covering an area 56 km2, the wind farm is situated about 45 km off the northern coast of the island of Borkum and directly adjacent to Alpha Ventus, Germany’s first offshore wind farm.

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