Internationally acclaimed corporate lawyer Joel Wheeler has joined the London office of international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, as a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice More >>
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Davis Polk – Mylan N.V. $2 Billion Secondary Offering
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as joint book-running managers on Mylan N.V.’s $2 billion SEC-registered secondary offering of 35,000,000 ordinary shares sold by certain subsidiaries of Abbott Laboratories. The ordinary shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “MYL.” More >>
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Ropes & Gray Advises on Towergate Restructuring and Acquisition of Majority Stake by Unsecured Noteholders
Ropes & Gray has advised the ad hoc committee of holders of Towergate Finance plc’s New York law-governed 10.5% senior unsecured notes in connection with the restructuring of the Towergate Group’s c. £1.05bn debt obligations and related acquisition by senior unsecured noteholders of more than 80% of the equity of the restructured Group. The members of the ad hoc committee were Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC, KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC and Sankaty Advisors, LLC. Towergate is Europe’s largest independently owned insurance intermediary More >>
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Dentons Welcomes Partner Lee Federman to its Banking and Finance Practice
Chadbourne Adds Leading Energy and Projects Lawyer in London and Moscow
Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Andrei Baev has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department, resident in the London and Moscow offices. Mr. Baev was previously a partner with Berwin Leighton Paisner and will serve as the Managing Partner of Chadbourne’s Moscow office, which opened in 1990 More >>
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Cadwalader Adds U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins to its White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (Cadwalader), a leading counselor to global corporations and financial institutions, today announced that Anne M. Tompkins, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, will join the Firm as partner. She will work alongside Cadwalader’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Chair Kenneth Wainstein, also a former U.S. Attorney, and his pre-eminent white collar team. More >>
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Dechert Advises Kofax Limited on US$1 Billion Sale to Lexmark International
Dechert LLP advised Kofax Limited on a merger agreement in which Lexmark will acquire Kofax. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Lexmark will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kofax for US$11.00 per share in cash for a total enterprise value of approximately US$1 billion, net of cash acquired. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015 and is contingent on Kofax shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. More >>
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Milbank Advises the Lenders on the US$5.2B PetroRabigh Expansion Project
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation (“JBIC”), Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (“PIF”) and various commercial banks/Islamic financial institutions on the US$5.2 billion expansion financing for the PetroRabigh Refining and Petrochemicals Project in Saudi Arabia. More >>
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Hogan Lovells Advises Optimal Payments Plc on €1.1 Billion Transformational Skrill Acquisition
Hogan Lovells has advised Optimal Payments Plc on the €1.1 billion acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited and its subsidiaries (Skrill Group) from Sentinel Group Holdings S.A, which is ultimately majority owned by funds managed and advised by CVC Capital Partners SICAV-FIS S.A. and Investcorp Technology Partners. The transformational transaction, announced today, will in part be funded by a fully underwritten rights issue raising gross proceeds of approximately £451 million and new debt facilities of €500 million. More >>
Tags: Hogan Lovells | LondonChadbourne Advises on the US$776 Million Financing of the Rabigh Independent Water Steam and Power Plant Expansion
Chadbourne & Parke LLP advised the Rabigh Arabian Water and Electricity Company and its sponsors (Arabian Company for Water and Power Projects, JGC Corporation and Marubeni Corporation) in relation to the US$776 million financing of the expansion of its independent water steam and power plant located on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Financial close was achieved on 16 March 2015. More >>
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