The Firm represented La Quinta Holdings Inc. in connection with a $460 million secondary offering, consisting of 23,000,000 shares of common stock (including 3,000,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their option to purchase additional shares) at a public offering price of $20.00 per share. More >>
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Shearman & Sterling Advises Underwriters of Cardinal Health’s $1.2 Billion Senior Notes Public Offering
Shearman & Sterling advised the underwriters of Cardinal Health, Inc.’s public offering of $450,000,000 2.400% Notes due 2019, $400,000,000 3.500% Notes due 2024, and $350,000,000 4.500% Notes due 2044. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. acted as joint bookrunning managers for the offering. More >>
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Mayer Brown advises TxDOT on $847.6 million public-private partnership for Texas SH 183 managed lanes project
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, represented the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in a competitive procurement for and structuring of a public-private partnership (PPP) for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of Texas SH 183 managed lanes project, located in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. More >>
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Hunton & Williams Represents Lenders on Approx. $4.37B Texas LNG Export Facility Financing
Hunton & Williams LLP successfully represented Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), and a group of commercial banks on a $4.369 billion senior secured project debt finance, letter of credit and working capital facilities to finance the construction and operation of Train 1 of a multi-train natural gas liquefaction and export facilities project to be located on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas. More >>
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DLA Piper advises Ping An Insurance on US$4.75 billion H share placing
The placing agreement was signed on 30 November 2014, pursuant to which the sole Placing Agent, Morgan Stanley, will, on behalf of Ping An, place an aggregate of 594,056,000 new H shares at the placing price of HK$62.00, to no fewer than six but no more than ten independent professional, institutional and/or individual investors on a fully underwritten basis. More >>
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White and Williams Opens Newark Office
White and Williams LLP announced the relocation of its northern New Jersey office from Paramus to Newark, NJ on November 24, 2014. The office will accommodate growth of the firm’s practice areas in the region as well as provide a key location for the firm’s clients.
White and Williams’ Newark office is located in 8,500 square feet of the Legal Center at the One Riverfront Plaza building, within a two-minute walk of Newark Penn Station. The office will be led by Robert Wright, Managing Partner. Four partners and two associates will be resident at the new office. More >>
Tags: White and Williams, LLP | NewarkAlibaba Group Completes Its Debut US$8 Billion Senior Unsecured Notes Offering
The Hong Kong and Palo Alto offices of the Firm represented Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba Group”) in connection with its debut offering of US$8 billion aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes, consisting of US$300 million floating rate notes due 2017, US$1 billion 1.625% notes due 2017, US$2.25 billion 2.5% notes due 2019, US$1.5 billion 3.125% notes due 2021, US$2.25 billion 3.6% notes due 2024 and US$700 million 4.5% notes due 2034. The notes are rated A1 by Moody’s, A+ by Standard & Poor’s and A+ by Fitch. More >>
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Robinson+Cole Opens Office in Miami
Robinson+Cole, an Am Law 200 firm with 200 lawyers in nine offices serving clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, has opened an office in Miami. The new office is located at 801 Brickell Avenue. The firm also has offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and California.
Eugene P. Murphy, a partner with the firm in the Insurance + Reinsurance Group, is overseeing the Miami location, where he is joined by associate Laura Farach, most recently with the firm of Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP, and paralegal Melanie Hoffman. More >>
Tags: Robinson & Cole LLP | MiamiShearman & Sterling Advises Managers in €3.1 Billion Re-IPO of Endesa
Shearman & Sterling advised managers Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. and Banco Santander, S.A., as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners, Goldman Sachs International, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and UBS Limited, as joint bookrunners, in connection with the €3.1 billion sale of shares in Endesa, S.A. by Enel Energy Europe, S.L.U. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enel S.p.A.). The offering is one of the largest equity offerings in Europe in 2014. More >>
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