Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with the offering of $3.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.125% U.S. dollar bonds due March 19, 2018, issued by Her Majesty in right of Canada. More >>
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Smith, Gambrell & Russell Expands Litigation Practice in Jacksonville Office
International law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) announced today that Alan S. Wachs, partner, and Kyle C. Jacobs, associate, have joined the firm’s litigation practice in its Jacksonville, Fla., office. More >>
Tags: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP | JacksonvilleHCP Announces $849 Million Acquisition of Private Pay Senior Housing Portfolio
Paul, Weiss client HCP, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from Chartwell Retirement Residences a portfolio of private pay senior housing communities for $849 million. The portfolio will be acquired using a RIDEA joint venture structure formed by HCP in which Brookdale Senior Living will own a 10 percent interest. More >>
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McDermott Adds One of Nation’s Top Private Client Lawyers
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Leigh-Alexandra Basha, one of the nation’s most prominent private client lawyers, has joined the Firm as a partner based in Washington, D.C. in the Private Client Practice Group. With the addition of Ms. Basha, the Firm will establish a Private Client practice in the nation’s capital with Ms. Basha as the head of the practice in that office. Ms. Basha formerly chaired Holland & Knight’s International Private Client Practice for the past decade. She was recently elected to Council of the International Bar Association’s Legal Practice Division and is past Chair of the IBA’s Individual Tax and Private Client Committee. More >>
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Former Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Jennifer H. Weiss Rejoins Firm as a Shareholder in the Tax Group
Attorney Jennifer H. Weiss has rejoined international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s Tax Group in Boston. Her return signals further expansion of the firm’s Boston office and a commitment to high-level work on behalf of clients involved in complex tax-related real estate matters. More >>
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FaegreBD Represents Life Time Fitness in $4 Billion Sale
Faegre Baker Daniels is representing Life Time Fitness, Inc. in its sale to affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners, TPG Capital, and several other investors including Life Time’s chairman and CEO Bahram Akradi, for an aggregate value of approximately $4 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015. More >>
Tags: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | MinneapolisThe Priceline Group in its €1 Billion Registered Senior Debt Offering
Cravath represented The Priceline Group Inc. in connection with its €1 billion registered senior debt offering. The Priceline Group Inc. is a leading provider of online travel and travel‑related reservation and search services. The notes were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on March 3, 2015. More >>
Tags: New YorkChadbourne Advises on the US$776 Million Financing of the Rabigh Independent Water Steam and Power Plant Expansion
Chadbourne & Parke LLP advised the Rabigh Arabian Water and Electricity Company and its sponsors (Arabian Company for Water and Power Projects, JGC Corporation and Marubeni Corporation) in relation to the US$776 million financing of the expansion of its independent water steam and power plant located on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Financial close was achieved on 16 March 2015. More >>
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White & Case Advises Saudi Aramco on US$8 Billion Expansion of World-Scale Rabigh Refinery and Petrochemicals Complex
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), as a sponsor, on the development and financing for the US$8 billion expansion of an existing, world-scale petroleum refining and petrochemicals complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia More >>
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McGuireWoods Continues Texas Expansion as Litigators Stewart Clancy, Justin Opitz Join Firm’s Dallas Office
Highly regarded financial services and commercial litigators Stewart Clancy and Justin Opitz have joined McGuireWoods as partners in Dallas as the firm continues to expand its capabilities in a vital southwestern United States market.
Clancy and Opitz have significant litigation experience representing businesses in a variety of commercial matters, with a particular focus on defending mortgage lenders and servicers against claims filed in federal and state courts. They also handle matters related to origination and title defects and advise clients on compliance with mortgage servicing standards and federal and state laws.
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