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 >>

As widely reported in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other media outlets, Paul, Weiss client Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Charter to merge with Time Warner Cable. The transaction, which values Time Warner Cable at $78.7 billion, will create a leading broadband services and technology company, which will result in greater product innovation, bringing new and advanced services to consumers and businesses. The merger agreement is subject to shareholder approval at both companies and regulatory review and other customary conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2015. More >>

Shearman & Sterling represented Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint bookrunning managers in connection with McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.’s investment-grade Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $700 million aggregate principal amount of 4.000% Senior Notes due 2025, guaranteed by Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC. More >>

Simpson Thacher recently represented HCA Inc. in its high yield offering of $1.6 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.375% Senior Notes due 2025. The notes represent a further issuance of HCA’s 5.375% Senior Notes due 2025 that were issued on January 16, 2015. HCA intends to use the net proceeds for the redemption of certain of HCA Holdings, Inc.’s existing senior notes and for general corporate purposes. More >>

International and domestic transactional attorney, Partner Rajiv Khanna has joined BakerHostetler’s Business Group in the firm’s New York office. Khanna comes to BakerHostetler from Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Khanna brings more than 35 years of experience, including four years practicing in New Delhi, India, counseling publicly and privately held clients on domestic, cross-border, and multijurisdictional M&A transactions; securities offerings; corporate and project finance; and real estate transactions. His business background allows him to advise clients in a business friendly manner in technology, pharmaceutical, financial services, energy, consumer products and other industries through mergers and acquisitions, initial and follow-on public offerings, and other transactions. Khanna most recently counseled a Fortune 500 company on its mergers and acquisitions. His fluency in Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi allows him to serve multinational clients with interests in South Asia. He is recognized as a New York Super Lawyer (2006-2008) and is listed in Jewels of India. More >>

Hunton & Williams LLP advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., as joint book-running managers, in connection with Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc.’s (“CPG”) inaugural issuance of $2.75 billion in aggregate principal amount of its senior unsecured notes (the “notes”) in a private placement under Rule 144A and Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to eligible purchasers. The notes will initially be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by certain of CPG’s subsidiaries. A portion of the net proceeds from the private offering will be used to fund a special dividend to NiSource Inc., CPG’s parent company, in connection with their planned separation, which is expected to take place in mid-2015. Upon the completion of the planned separation, CPG will become a stand-alone publicly traded company, focusing on natural gas pipeline and related businesses. More >>