O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Tobias L. “Toby” Knapp, an experienced mergers and acquisitions and private equity lawyer, has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Knapp and partner Paul Scrivano serve as co-heads of U.S. M&A and Private Equity, working with partner Steve Tonsfeldt, O’Melveny’s Global Head of M&A and Private Equity More >>

Kirkland & Ellis LLP represents Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), which announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned Ardent Medical Services, Inc. (with its affiliates “Ardent Health Services”), a premier provider of health care services and one of the ten largest for-profit hospital companies in the U.S., for $1.75 billion in cash More >>

Shearman & Sterling advised The Dow Chemical Company in connection with a $5 billion revolving credit facility with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent. More >>

Cravath represented the initial purchasers, Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, Credit Suisse and Goldman, Sachs & Co., in connection with the US$1.8 billion 144A/Reg. S high‑yield senior debt offering of Rite Aid Corporation, the third largest retail drugstore chain in the United States at the time of the offering. Proceeds of the offering were used to finance the acquisition of EnvisionRx by Rite Aid. The transaction closed on April 2, 2015. More >>

Polsinelli welcomes David L. Barrack to the firm as shareholder focusing on complex bankruptcy restructuring and litigation for clients, and Jeremy R. Johnson joins as shareholder advising clients on restructuring and distressed debt matters. Both Barrack and Johnson will serve clients nationally from the New York office of Polsinelli, which has a solid reputation, and history of success in business loan workouts, Chapter 11 reorganization, and out-of-court restructurings. Together, they bring to clients more than 40 years of combined experience and sophisticated business and legal skills. More >>

Chuhak & Tecson, P.C. announced today the opening of an office in New York City. This second location for the Chicago-based law firm will serve its growing foundation of bank clients in the areas of real estate lease and purchase/sale transactions, loan documentation, workouts related to conventional and SBA products, bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, general corporate banking and commercial and consumer foreclosures. The firm will also provide legal services associated with complex civil litigation, estate planning and healthcare law. More >>

The Firm represented Aramark in connection with a secondary offering of 22,500,000 shares of Aramark’s common stock by certain selling stockholders, resulting in proceeds of approximately $725 million to the selling stockholders. The offering closed on March 26, 2015. More >>

Olin Corporation and The Dow Chemical Company announced that they have entered into definitive agreements under which Dow will separate a significant portion of its chlorine value chain and merge that business with Olin in a tax-efficient Reverse Morris Trust transaction, valued at $5 billion. Cravath represented Olin in connection with this transaction. More >>