The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that Janis M. Meyer will join its New York office as a partner in the Lawyers for the Profession® practice group, effective January 1, 2015. Ms. Meyer will focus her practice on professional responsibility, legal ethics, risk management, human resources and insurance matters.

Prior to joining Hinshaw, Ms. Meyer was a partner and General Counsel at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, and subsequently served as a member of its Wind-Down Committee, overseeing the bankruptcy filing in 2012 and the wind-down of the firm. She has continued to serve as a consultant to the Dewey & LeBoeuf Liquidation Trust. More >>

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Jeff Hoffman and Susan Wolfe have joined the Firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations group in New York. Mr. Hoffman joins the Firm as a partner with more than 40 years of criminal defense experience, representing politicians, business leaders, attorneys, and many others in scores of federal and state cases. Ms. Wolfe, who joins Blank Rome as of counsel, also works with individuals facing criminal prosecution, focusing primarily on cases at the appellate level. Mr. Hoffman, a founding partner of Hoffman & Pollock, and Ms. Wolfe, also a partner at that firm, have moved their practices to Blank Rome. More >>

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has served as US counsel to Canada’s export credit agency, Export Development Canada, in its SEC-registered US$1 billion offering of 1.625% global bonds due 2019 which closed in December 2014. Proceeds will be used for corporate purposes. More >>

Davis Polk advised Ally Financial Inc. (“Ally”) in connection with its $1.3 billion SEC-registered secondary sale of 54,926,296 shares of its common stock by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (U.S. Treasury), as part of the planned exit of its investment in Ally. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the secondary sale. More >>

Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2021, and $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 10% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022 by Movie Escrow, Inc., to be merged with and into Global Cash Access, Inc., a global provider of cash access services and related equipment and services to the gaming industry. Proceeds from the offering will be used to acquire Multimedia Games, a rapidly growing provider of gaming machines and systems. More >>

Willkie represents The Pantry, Inc. in deal to be acquired by Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

On December 18, Canadian convenience store leader Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., which operates under the Circle K banner, announced it will acquire Willkie client The Pantry, Inc., which has more than 1,500 convenience stores in the southeastern United States, including the Kangaroo Express® chain. More >>

The Firm represented Aramark in connection with an $840 million secondary offering, consisting of a sale by certain selling stockholders of 34,500,000 shares of common stock (including 4,500,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their option) at a public offering price of $28 per share. More >>