Hunton & Williams LLP advised Carlyle Infrastructure Partners in its $327 million sale of Western Water Holdings LLC, and its water distribution utility Park Water Company and its subsidiaries, to Liberty Utilities, the regulated utility business of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Western Water Holdings is a wholly owned investment of Carlyle Infrastructure Partners, the infrastructure investment business of the Carlyle Group. Park Water Company owns and operates three regulated water utilities engaged in the production, treatment, storage, distribution, and sale of water in Southern California and Western Montana. More >>

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Barclays, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Natixis, New York Branch as lead arrangers and Citibank, N.A. as administrative agent in connection with a $550 million incremental add-on to Templar Energy LLC’s second lien credit facility. The proceeds were used primarily for the purchase of Granite Wash assets from Newfield Exploration Co. More >>

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Securities partner Arnold Peinado, Transportation and Space partners Hugh Robertson and Jim Pascale and Global Securities special counsel Kevin MacLeod, acted as US counsel to the underwriters in a public offering of $956 million aggregate face amount of enhanced equipment trust certificates (“EETCs”) by American Airlines, Inc. (“American”). More >>

Shearman & Sterling represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers and joint book managers in connection with a $10 billion 364-day credit facility for Johnson & Johnson. More >>

The Firm recently represented Pinnacle Foods Inc. (“Pinnacle Foods”) and the selling stockholders, consisting primarily of certain funds affiliated with The Blackstone Group, L.P., in connection with a secondary offering of 15,000,000 shares of common stock of Pinnacle Foods by the selling stockholders for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $478.5 million. More >>

Ropes & Gray advised Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and CCHN Group Holdings (Matrix Medical Network) in the sale of Matrix to Providence Service Corporation in a deal announced Sept. 18. Providence will acquire Matrix, a leading provider of in-home health assessments and care management services, for an aggregate purchase price of $400 million. More >>

Simpson Thacher recently represented the managers, led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Citigroup Capital Markets Inc., in an offering by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (“BTMU”) of $4.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior notes in five tranches due 2017 (floating rate), 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024 (fixed rate). The offering was conducted pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. The bonds are listed on the Singapore Exchange. More >>

Shearman & Sterling represented Citibank, N.A. in providing $1.25 billion in financing commitments for the $4.3 billion acquisition by Washington Prime Group (NYSE: WPG) of Glimcher Realty Trust (GRT) through a merger transaction. More >>

Willkie client Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Endo International plc to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Auxilium common stock at a price of $28.10 per share in cash and Endo stock, subject to due diligence, financing and other conditions. Auxilium stated that consistent with its fiduciary duties and in accordance with the existing merger agreement with QLT Inc., the company’s Board of Directors will carefully review all aspects of the Endo proposal. The Chesterbook, Pa-based company said “The Board is not withdrawing, modifying, withholding, changing or qualifying its recommendation with respect to its existing merger agreement with QLT Inc., or proposing to do so.” More >>