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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Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint book runners, in connection with a $4 billion 364-day credit facility for The Procter & Gamble Company and some of its subsidiaries. The Shearman & Sterling team included partner Maura O’Sullivan (New York-Finance) and counsel Susan Hobart (New York-Finance).
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The Firm represented the underwriters of the initial public offering in Hong Kong and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by KKR portfolio company China Rundong Auto Group Limited (China Rundong Auto). China Rundong Auto offered an aggregate of 268,619,000 ordinary shares, which raised approximately HK$877.0 million (US$113.2 million) in gross proceeds. The ordinary shares of China Rundong Auto are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch acted as joint sponsors, jointed global coordinators, joint bookrunners and joint lead managers; CCB International Capital Limited and Haitong International Securities Company Limited acted as joint bookrunners and joint lead managers; and KKR Capital Markets LLC acted as a co-lead manager.

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Willkie represents BofA Merrill Lynch as financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pike Corporation in the sale of the company to Court Square Capital Partners in partnership with J. Eric Pike.

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Linklaters has advised long-standing client Dairy Farm on its US$925m acquisition of 19.9% of Yonghui Superstores, a Shanghai-listed company with supermarket operations in Mainland China (“Yonghui”). This significant transaction adds to Linklaters’ impressive list of M&A transactions in China over the last 12 months such as advising Jardine Strategic on its acquisition of a 20% stake in Zhongsheng, The Carlyle Group, Yashili and Zhang International in connection with the US$1.62 billion voluntary general offer for Yashili by China Mengniu International Company Limited and most recently, Noble Group on the acquisition by COFCO and the establishment of an agribusiness joint venture.

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