Simpson Thacher represented Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) in the substantially contemporaneous acquisitions of PRA Holdings, Inc. (“PRA”) by KKR and of RPS Parent Holding Corp. (“RPS”) by PRA. As part of the financing for the acquisitions, PRA issued $375 million aggregate principal amount of 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and entered into a new $825 million term loan facility and a new $125 million revolving credit facility.

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Foley announced today that Lisa Estrada has joined the firm’s Health Care Industry Team as a partner in the New York office.

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

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Morgan Lewis announced today that Kevin O’Mara, a lawyer specializing in the representation of private equity and hedge funds in diverse industry sectors, has joined the firm as a partner in its Business and Finance Practice, resident in New York.

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Shearman & Sterling acted as counsel to Ecopetrol S.A. in connection with a public offering of $350 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.250% Notes due 2018, $1.3 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.875% Notes due 2023 and $850 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.375% Notes due 2043. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as underwriters. This transaction represented the first time in four years that Ecopetrol had accessed the international capital markets.

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Shearman & Sterling represented RBS Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as joint book-running managers and representatives of the several underwriters in connection with a shelf takedown of $425 million of 3.200% Senior Notes due 2018, $425 million of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2023 and $400 million of 6.200% Senior Notes due 2043, issued by ONEOK Partners, L.P. and guaranteed by ONEOK Partners Intermediate Limited Partnership.

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In one of the largest corporate bond offerings in Latin America of 2013, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented underwriters in a $2.5 billion offering of senior notes issued by Colombia’s state-owned and primary oil and gas producer and exporter Ecopetrol S.A.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is representing major Chilean bottler and beverage producer Compañía Cervecerias Unidas S.A. (CCU), and its consolidated subsidiaries, in the offering of $670 million in shares in the form of American Depository Receipts (NYSE: CCU) and rights, listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Shearman & Sterling represented John Deere Owner Trust 2013-B, as the issuing entity, John Deere Receivables, Inc., as the seller and depositor, and John Deere Capital Corporation, as the sponsor and servicer, in connection with the issuance and sale of approximately $848.6 million of asset-backed notes. The notes are backed by agricultural and construction equipment retail installment sale and loan contracts secured by new and used agricultural and construction equipment, the security interests in the equipment financed thereby and the proceeds thereof (the “receivables”). John Deere Capital Corporation purchased the receivables from Deere & Company and John Deere Construction & Forestry Company.

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Simpson Thacher is representing J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in its role as financial advisor to Boise Inc. (“Boise”) in connection with Packaging Corp. of America’s (“PCA”) announced acquisition of Boise Inc. for $12.55 per share in a deal valued at about $1.995 billion, including $714 million of Boise debt.

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