Cahill represented J.P. Morgan Securities as lead book-running manager and the other book-runners in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.7% Senior Notes due 2024 and $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.75% Senior Notes due 2044, by 21st Century Fox America, Inc., a subsidiary of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. Proceeds were used for general corporate purposes. More >>
Tags: Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP | New YorkDavis Polk advised underwriters represented by Barclays Bank PLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and TD Securities (USA) LLC in connection with the offering of $2 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.5% bonds due September 10, 2021, issued by the Province of Ontario. More >>
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited (“China Rongsheng”) in relation to the acquisition of a 60% equity interest in Central Point Worldwide Inc. (“Central Point”) by its indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary, Ocean Sino Holdings Limited.
The consideration for the acquisition is HK$2.184 billion (US$281 million), which is satisfied by the allotment and issuance of 1,400,000,000 shares by China Rongsheng. More >>
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Mayer Brown represented multinational steel manufacturing corporations ArcelorMittal and Gerdau in the sale of their respective 50% interests in Gallatin Steel Company to Nucor Corporation for $770 million. Kentucky-based Gallatin Steel Company is a flat rolled mini-mill that melts scrap, pig iron and hot briquetted iron from various sources and processes the material to produce flat rolled steel. More >>
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The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has recently advised on the successful reopening of notes by the Vista Land group. Milbank advised DBS Bank Ltd. (DBS), as international underwriter, on the US$125 million reopening of 7.45% Guaranteed Notes due 2019 (the Notes) by VLL International, Inc., a subsidiary of Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc. (Vista Land), one of the largest residential property developers in the Philippines. The Notes were unconditionally guaranteed by Vista Land and other subsidiaries of the Vista Land group. More >>
Tags: Milbank LLP | Hong KongWoods Oviatt Gilman LLP, one of Rochester, New York’s oldest and largest law firms, announced today that it is opening a Buffalo, New York office, effective October 6, 2014. The Firm also announced that four Buffalo based attorneys will be joining the Firm as partners, effective as of the same date. The attorneys include business litigator and debtor’s/creditor’s rights attorney and William F. Savino, private equity and corporate lawyer Christian J. Henrich, general business lawyer Anthony L. Eugeni, and business litigator, Brian D. Gwitt. All four attorneys were formally with the Buffalo firm, Damon & Morey, LLP, where Savino served as the Chairman of the Business Litigation and Insolvency practices and Henrich served as the Co-Chair of the Business and Corporate practice and Chair of the Private Equity practice. More >>
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Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised COFCO Land Holdings Limited on its acquisitions of the minority interests in Jetway Developments and Yalong Development (HK) Company.
The aggregate consideration was approximately HK$2 billion which was satisfied by the issue and allotment of shares in COFCO Land to the respective sellers. More >>
Tags: Norton Rose Fulbright | Hong KongCahill represented J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Agricole CIB, and RBS as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.5% Senior Notes due 2025 by Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. Proceeds were used to refinance existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.
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Thomas Monroe, of Counsel to the firm, will be based in the New Jersey Office. Mr. Monroe has provided counsel and litigated matters for some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and corporations. Prior to joining Certilman Balin, Mr. Monroe was an associate at two prominent law firms in New Jersey. For the past 14 years, he has concentrated his practice in the areas of commercial lending, complex civil litigation, and trust and estate litigation and administration. He has also represented small businesses, family businesses and individuals. More >>
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Hunton & Williams LLP advised Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC, and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., as agents on an SEC-registered offering by Washington Gas Light Company (“Washington Gas”) of $100 million aggregate principal amount of medium-term notes due 2044. More >>
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