Paul Hastings Continues White Collar Expansion with Addition of High-Profile Washington, D.C. Partner Group

Monday, February 23, 2015

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that white collar defense lawyers Robert Luskin, Kwame Manley, and John S.(Jay) Darden, will be joining the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice within the Litigation practice as partners in the Washington, D.C. office. The team, known for its high-profile representations for global clients, was previously with Squire Patton Boggs.

Also joining with the team is highly regarded white collar defense lawyer Jamie Gardner, formerly Trial Chief for the Washington (DC) Public Defenders Service and a faculty member at Harvard Law School. More >>

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Boutique Firm Moves Financial Services Practice to Greenberg Traurig’s Chicago Office

Monday, February 23, 2015

The lawyers from the respected boutique law firm Henderson Law LLP have added their financial services practice to the Investment Management Group in the Chicago office of international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Jeffry M. Henderson and Harris L. Kay have joined the firm as shareholders; Douglas E. Arend and Robert B. Christie as of counsel; and Douglas M. Grom as a practice group attorney. More >>

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney More Than Doubles Its Government Relations Strength in Tallahassee

Monday, February 23, 2015

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is pleased to announce the addition of seven government relations professionals to its Tallahassee, Fla. office. Capital veterans Mike Harrell, Mallory Harrell, Doug Bell, Sam Bell, Jim DeBeaugrine, Marnie George and Tim Stanfield will join Buchanan on March 2, in advance of the 2015 Florida legislative session. Combined with Buchanan’s existing government relations professionals, the firm will have one of the most experienced “go-to” teams in Tallahassee to deal with legal, regulatory and governmental issues. More >>

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Cadwalader Represents Salix Pharmaceuticals in Its Pending Acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Monday, February 23, 2015

Cadwalader is representing Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SLXP), a leading U.S. specialty pharmaceutical company, which today announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX) (TSX: VRX) for $158.00 per share, or a total enterprise value of approximately $14.5 billion. The transaction was approved by the Salix and Valeant boards of directors and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval. More >>

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Cahill Represents Initial Purchasers in $1.8 Billion Notes Offering by Wynn Las Vegas

Monday, February 23, 2015

Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Agricole CIB, Fifth Third Securities, Scotiabank, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as joint book-running managers and BOC International, BNP PARIBAS, Morgan Stanley, SMBC Nikko, and UBS Investment Bank as co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $1,800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.50% Senior Notes due 2025 by Wynn Las Vegas, LLC and Wynn Las Vegas Capital Corp., a destination casino resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. More >>

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Epstein Becker Green Adds Group of Health Care and Life Sciences Attorneys and Opens Princeton Office

Monday, February 23, 2015

Epstein Becker Green (EBG) is pleased to announce that a group of 15 attorneys is joining the firm, expanding the firm’s presence in the Northeast corridor and adding further depth to its well-established Health Care and Life Sciences and Litigation practices. The team is led by Gary W. Herschman, Anthony Argiropoulos, Anjana D. Patel, and Jack Wenik, all of whom have become Members of the Firm.

Additionally, Thomas Kane, Andrew Kaplan, Laurajane Kastner, Theodora (Teddy) McCormick, and David Weiss will also be joining as Members of the Firm. John Barry, Christina Burke, Diana Fratto, Victoria Vaskov Sheridan, Erica Sibley, and Scheherazade (Scher) Wasty are joining as Associates. The attorneys will be primarily based in Newark, Princeton, and New York. The group joins from Sills Cummis & Gross. More >>

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Nationally Recognized Political Lawyer Joins Akerman’s Washington DC Office

Monday, February 23, 2015

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced it has expanded its Washington, D.C., office with nationally recognized political lawyer, Brett Kappel. A leading authority on campaign finance, lobbying and government ethics laws, Kappel has deep, bipartisan experience with political law on the local, state and federal levels. Kappel joins Akerman as a partner in the Government Affairs & Public Policy Practice Group. More >>

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Bruce Leonard joins Miller Thomson

Friday, February 20, 2015

Miller Thomson is pleased to announce that Bruce Leonard has joined the firm’s Toronto office as part of its Insolvency and Restructuring practice.

With lawyers in key centres across the country, the firm’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group is recognized for its depth and experience in advising clients across the full range of insolvency proceedings, from security enforcement to national and international financial reorganizations. More >>

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White & Case Advises GTECH on US$5.2 Billion Senior Secured Notes Issue

Friday, February 20, 2015

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised GTECH S.p.A., a company active in the gaming technology, content, and service delivery solutions sectors to gaming markets, on its issuance of senior secured notes denominated in three tranches totalling US$3.2 billion, and two tranches totalling €1.55 billion, equivalent in aggregate to approximately US$5.2 billion. More >>

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Kirkland & Ellis Represents Arc Logistics Partners LP in Agreement to Acquire a Terminal in Joliet, Illinois

Friday, February 20, 2015

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is representing Arc Logistics Partners LP (NYSE: ARCX), an affiliate of Lightfoot Capital Partners, which today announced that, through a joint venture arrangement with GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), Arc has agreed to acquire all of the membership interests of Joliet Bulk, Barge & Rail LLC (JBBR) from CenterPoint Properties Trust for $216 million. JBBR’s principal assets consist of a crude oil unloading terminal and a four-mile crude oil pipeline, the Joliet Terminal, which are in the final stages of construction in Joliet, Illinois, and are expected to be complete in mid to late April 2015. More >>

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