Kirkland & Ellis LLP advises The TriZetto Corporation, a provider of world-class healthcare information technology and service solutions owned by Apax Partners, which announced today that it has agreed to sell its majority ownership stake of TriZetto to Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. for $2.7 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2014. The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Leo Greenberg and Srinivas Kaushik and associate John Kupiec, and included tax partners Patrick Gallagher and Sara Zablotney, and tax and corporate associates Vin Thorn, Solomon Eskinazi and Laura Brockelman. More >>

Simpson Thacher is representing TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (NYSE: TRW) in connection with its proposed sale to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (“ZF”). Under the terms of the transaction, ZF will acquire all of the outstanding shares of TRW for $105.60 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $13.5 billion on an enterprise value basis. The transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2015, is subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. More >>

A Weil team led by New York partner Danek Freeman advised Citi in connection with providing committed debt financing for FMC Corp.’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Cheminova A/S, a multinational crop protection company based in Denmark, from Auriga Industries A/S. More >>

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 >>