Andrea Chomakos, a highly regarded estate planning lawyer with significant experience advising family-owned and closely-held businesses, has joined McGuireWoods’ nationally recognized private wealth services group as a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office More >>
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP represents Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), which announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned Ardent Medical Services, Inc. (with its affiliates “Ardent Health Services”), a premier provider of health care services and one of the ten largest for-profit hospital companies in the U.S., for $1.75 billion in cash More >>
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Davis Polk is advising Shanda Games Limited (“Shanda Games”) in connection with its going-private acquisition for $3.55 per ordinary share or $7.10 per American Depository Share by a consortium consisting of Ningxia Yilida Capital Investment Limited Partnership, Ningxia Zhongyincashmere International Group Co., Ltd., Orient Hongtai (Hong Kong) Limited, Hao Ding International Limited and their respective affiliates. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by the shareholders of Shanda Games and is expected to close in the second half of 2015 More >>
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Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Hans P. Dyke has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities Group, resident in the Washington, DC office. Hans brings substantial experience handling transactional, regulatory, commercial, and development matters for clients in the energy sector. In particular, he advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, equity investments, and financings throughout the electric power and oil and gas industries More >>
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Akin Gump advised Sanchez Energy Corporation (SN) in the execution and closing of an agreement with Sanchez Production Partners LP (SPP) to sell escalating amounts of partial working interests in certain wellbores and associated assets to a subsidiary of SPP for aggregate consideration of approximately $85 million to the Company, subject to normal and customary closing and post-closing adjustments. In connection with the transaction, SN novated certain gas and oil hedging transactions related to the production of the wellbores to SPP More >>
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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Michael J. Bettinger will join the firm as a partner in San Francisco. He will be a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice.
Mr. Bettinger is a leading trial lawyer for patent cases in U.S. District Courts and the International Trade Commission. Mr. Bettinger, who has tried 21 cases to verdict, has litigated cases for high-tech clients in the computer, telecommunications, semiconductor, networking and healthcare industries. More >>
Tags: Sidley Austin LLP | San FranciscoGreg Roberts, a nationally prominent and highly accomplished litigator with more than two decades of federal and state trial experience, has merged his specialty litigation practice with 1,000-lawyer McGuireWoods. The move adds a second area office, in downtown L.A., to the firm’s current office in Century City.
Roberts left an elite major Wall Street firm in 2010 to found Integer Law Corporation, a small firm with a stellar record in high-stakes, high-profile litigation. Roberts and Integer’s three associates will maintain their offices in downtown Los Angeles at 633 West 5th Street. McGuireWoods has 63 lawyers in its Century City office. More >>
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Charles Eskridge, a former partner at Susman Godfrey, has joined Quinn Emanuel’s Houston office as partner. Mr. Eskridge is an experienced trial lawyer and appellate advocate. He has tried a wide range of complex commercial matters and argued numerous appeals in both federal and state courts. His professional experience includes matters involving such diverse areas as antitrust, intellectual property (including patents and trade secrets matters), aviation disasters, securities fraud, the First Amendment, ERISA, and asbestos bankruptcy litigation, along with state law issues concerning complex contractual disputes, accounting and legal malpractice, fraud, employment and trade secret issues, and insurance coverage. More >>
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Shearman & Sterling advised The Dow Chemical Company in connection with a $5 billion revolving credit facility with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent. More >>
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Cravath represented the initial purchasers, Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, Credit Suisse and Goldman, Sachs & Co., in connection with the US$1.8 billion 144A/Reg. S high‑yield senior debt offering of Rite Aid Corporation, the third largest retail drugstore chain in the United States at the time of the offering. Proceeds of the offering were used to finance the acquisition of EnvisionRx by Rite Aid. The transaction closed on April 2, 2015. More >>
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