Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP announced today that David S. Berg has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department.

Mr. Berg focuses his practice on corporate and financial transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, venture capital, private equity, private investment funds, joint ventures and other financing transactions for a wide variety of industries such as aviation, biotech, media, telecom, and forest and paper products. He has significant experience representing both sellers and buyers in domestic and cross-border transactions as well as distressed and special situation investments. He was formerly a partner in Arnold & Porter LLP’s Corporate and Securities Practice. More >>

Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that attorney Christopher L. Barbaruolo has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Real Estate Department.

“Chris is a dynamic attorney with remarkable breadth of experience across all areas of transactional real estate,” said Raymond A. Sanseverino, Chair of Loeb & Loeb’s Real Estate Department. “His skillset will be an excellent complement to our finance, sales and acquisitions, and leasing teams in New York and nationwide, further enhancing the sophisticated level of service that we provide to clients throughout the deal making process.” More >>

Simpson Thacher is representing Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Bank PLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead arrangers with respect to a new committed debt financing for Avago, in connection with its announced $37 billion acquisition of Broadcom Corporation. More >>

Davis Polk advised the joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Energizer SpinCo, Inc. of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.500% senior notes due 2025. The offering is part of the financing for an anticipated spinoff of the household products business of Energizer Holdings, Inc. More >>

Simpson Thacher is representing Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Bank PLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead arrangers with respect to a new committed debt financing for Avago, in connection with its announced $37 billion acquisition of Broadcom Corporation. More >>

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announced today that five attorneys have joined the firm’s Insurance Litigation Group in New York, expanding the firm’s service offerings in insurance class action defense and complex litigation. The new attorneys include Partners Michael R. Nelson and Kymberly Kochis, and their colleagues Veronica M. Wayner, Francis X. Nolan, IV and Alexander P. Fuchs. The group joins from the New York office of Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton (now Nelson Brown & Co.) where Mr. Nelson was chairman, Ms. Kochis was a partner and Ms. Wayner, Mr. Nolan and Mr. Fuchs were associates. The five attorneys bring extensive experience representing insurers worldwide in litigation, insurance regulatory investigations, reinsurance, antitrust, administrative hearings and compliance matters. More >>

NII Holdings, Inc. announced it has completed the $1.88 billion sale of its Mexican operations to AT&T. Kramer Levin represents the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in NII’s ongoing bankruptcy case, one of the largest chapter 11 cases of 2014. This pivotal transaction, which is subject to customary post-closing adjustments, led to a revised plan support agreement with significantly increased plan value and distributions to all creditor classes and the support of more than 70 percent of the estate’s creditors. The chapter 11 plan, for which the Creditors’ Committee is a co-plan proponent, is scheduled for confirmation in June 2015 in the Southern District of New York. More >>