Colin Ng & Partners LLP (“CNP”) acted for Bel Fuse Inc. (“Bel Fuse”), a corporation primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of products used in networking, telecommunications, high speed data transmission, commercial aerospace, military, transportation, and consumer electronics, on the acquisition of the Power One Solutions business from ABB, which included 100% of the shareholding in the Singapore subsidiary Power-One Pte. Ltd. The transaction is part of Bel Fuse’s plan to further develop their power business.

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Roche and InterMune, Inc. announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for Roche to acquire InterMune at a price of US$74.00 per share in an all‑cash transaction with a total equity value of US$8.9 billion. This offer represents a premium of 38% to InterMune’s closing price on August 22, 2014, and a premium of 63% to InterMune’s unaffected closing price on August 12, 2014. Cravath represented InterMune in connection with this transaction, which has been approved by the boards of InterMune and Roche and is expected to close in 2014.

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Hunton & Williams LLP advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and UBS Securities LLC, as representatives of underwriters on SEC-registered offerings by The Southern Company (“Southern”) of $400 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2017 and $350 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2019.

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A cross-practice team of McGuireWoods partners from the firm’s Atlanta, Baltimore and Richmond offices advised the special committee of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. in its recent $4 billion merger transaction with NorthStar Realty Corp.

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Miles & Stockbridge recently represented client Ventura Solutions, Inc. in its sale to Boeing [NYSE: BA]. Ventura Solutions, which is based in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, with approximately 140 employees, is a hardware and software engineering company that provides custom solutions for government customers. Its acquisition enhances Boeing’s information and security capabilities. Ventura Solutions is now part of Boeing Network & Space Systems.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Klister LLC on its acquisition of Minimax Viking GmbH, a global fire protection company with over $1.6 billion of revenue and 7,000 employees.  Klister acquired Minimax Viking as part of a consortium of buyers that included asset manager Intermediate Capital Group and Kirkbi A/S, a Danish investment company.
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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised the joint global coordinators, Merrill Lynch (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Singapore Branch and J.P. Morgan (S.E.A.) Limited, as the joint lead managers and underwriters on Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited’s (OCBC) renounceable rights issue of up to 440,047,710 rights shares at an issue price of S$7.65 totalling S$3.37 billion (US$ 2.7 billion).

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Lawyers from Goodwin Procter’s London office have advised German investment fund client Credit Suisse Asset Management Immobilien (CSAM) on a series of real estate transactions totalling more than £300 million over the last 12 months. Most recently, the firm advised on the£142.2 million sale of Plantation Place South, a prime multi-let office building in the City of London, to one of Kazakhstan’s richest men.

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Leading global law firm Mayer Brown has advised Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) as senior lender on a €100m senior facility agreement to Invista European Real Estate Trust, a European commercial property trust.
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