Armstrong Teasdale Expands to Colorado; Opens Denver Office with 10 New Lawyers

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

As part of its western expansion initiative, Armstrong Teasdale LLP is adding 10 lawyers to open a Denver office on October 1, 2014. The attorneys are all formerly of Denver-based Steese Roberts & Frankel P.C. Their addition complements Armstrong Teasdale’s core strengths and expands its national capabilities in intellectual property, telecommunications, white-collar crime and internal investigations. The move will also create synergies between the Denver location and the firm’s established Las Vegas and Kansas City offices. More >>

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Linklaters advises on one of the largest IPOs in UAE

Monday, September 29, 2014

Linklaters has advised Emaar Malls Group (EMG), the leading owner and operator of shopping malls in Dubai, and its parent company, Emaar Properties, on EMG’s IPO, the second largest ever in the United Arab Emirates. The initial sale of shares were priced at the top of the proposed range amid huge demand from investors, making it the largest stock offer in a Gulf Arab economy since 2008.

Shares in the initial public offer were priced at 2.90 dirhams per share, giving an overall sale value of 5.8 billion dirhams ($1.58 billion). With a market value of 37.7 billion dirhams upon listing, it will become the third-largest stock on the Dubai Financial Market when it begins trading on Oct. 2. More >>

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Norton Rose Fulbright advises on US$225 million financing to a $1.25 billion infrastructure investment joint venture between energy-focused private equity leader First Reserve and oilfield services giant Petrofac

Monday, September 29, 2014

Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright advised Natixis Singapore Branch as sole mandated lead arranger and underwriter on a US$225 million limited recourse project financing facility to finance two floating production facilities for PetroFirst Infrastructure Limited, a joint venture between energy-focused private equity leader First Reserve and oilfield services giant Petrofac. The joint venture, announced on 26 June 2014, will deploy $1.25 billion of equity capital both in purchasing a number of existing floating production, storage and offloading assets from Petrofac’s Integrated Energy Services (IES) sector, as well as in new infrastructure projects. More >>

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Paul Hastings Represents Joint Bookrunners in AerCap’s $800 Million Notes Offering

Monday, September 29, 2014

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm acted as counsel to joint bookrunners J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley in connection with the issuance of $800 million of senior notes by AerCap Ireland Capital Limited and AerCap Global Aviation Trust. AerCap is the world’s largest independent aircraft leasing company. More >>

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Marathon Petroleum’s $1.95 Billion Registered Senior Debt Offering

Monday, September 29, 2014

Cravath represented the underwriters, led by MUFG, Citigroup and RBS, in connection with the US$1.95 billion registered senior debt offering of Marathon Petroleum Corporation, an independent petroleum refining, marketing and transportation company. The transaction closed on September 5, 2014. More >>

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Simpson Thacher Represents Underwriters in Initial Public Offering of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc.

Friday, September 26, 2014

The Firm recently represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, in the initial public offering by ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. of 41,285,000 shares of common stock (including shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option), which raised gross proceeds of approximately $700 million. ServiceMaster’s shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SERV”. More >>

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Firm Represents Alibaba Group in Historic US$25 Billion IPO on NYSE

Friday, September 26, 2014

The Firm has represented Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba Group”) in connection with its initial public offering, the largest IPO ever conducted. The offering, which was comprised of 368,122,000 American depositary shares (“ADSs”), each representing one ordinary share of Alibaba Group, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and raised a total of US$25 billion in gross proceeds. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. acted as joint book runners for the offering. More >>

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Hogan Lovells Advises on £1.2Bn Automotive Securitisation for Volkswagen Financial Services

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Hogan Lovells has advised Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) on its first public securitisation of UK automotive receivables since 2008. The transaction, which closed on 25 September, marks the highest-volume automotive ABS transaction to be completed in Sterling, with the Class A Notes and Class B Notes totaling approximately £1.2billion. More >>

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