On September 9, Willkie client Clovis Oncology, Inc. announced the closing of its offering of $287.5 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2021 in a Rule 144A offering to qualified institutional buyers.

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Shearman & Sterling represented Citibank, N.A., as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, in providing $1 billion in financing commitments for the announced $3 billion acquisition by Select Income REIT (NYSE: SIR) of Cole Corporate Income Trust (CCIT) through a merger transaction. UBS Securities LLC will act as a joint lead arranger in the financing.

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Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, and J.P. Morgan as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in connection with the public offering of $3,000,000,000 of Senior Notes, comprised of $1,300,000,000 6.000% aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2023 and $1,700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2025 by T-Mobile USA, Inc. Proceeds from the offering were used for general corporate purposes.
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Davis Polk is advising AB Electrolux in connection with its $3.3 billion acquisition of the appliances business of General Electric. The acquisition includes a 48.4% shareholding in the Mexican appliance company Mabe, as well as a long term license agreement for the GE Appliances brands. The transaction, which is expected to close during 2015, is subject to regulatory approvals.

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McGlinchey Stafford announced today that it has opened an office in New York City, which is the law firm’s eleventh office nationwide and its second location in the state of New York.  Five attorneys have joined the firm’s new location in Midtown Manhattan.  The national law firm, which also has an office in Albany, New York, now has 185 attorneys firm-wide.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Cequel Communications Holdings I, LLC, which does business as Suddenlink Communications, in connection with a $500 million private offering of senior notes. Cequel is the seventh largest cable operator in the United States.

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Global law firm Proskauer served as lead counsel to Annie’s, Inc. (NYSE:BNNY) in its definitive agreement to be acquired by General Mills, Inc. for $46.00 per share in cash, for a total transaction value of approximately $820 million. The transaction consideration represents a 51% premium over Annie’s 30-day average closing price of $30.47, as of September 5, 2014.

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BuckleySandler LLP, a leading financial services and criminal & civil enforcement defense law firm, announced today the opening of its first international office, located in London. James T. Parkinson has relocated from the firm’s Washington, DC office to be its London partner-in-residence, enabling the firm to better assist its clients with their global regulatory, litigation, enforcement, financial crimes, FCPA, digital commerce, privacy/data security and anti-money laundering needs.

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