Phillips Nizer is pleased to announce that Regina E. Faul has joined the firm as a partner in the Labor & Employment Law and Litigation Practice Groups.   Ms. Faul will continue to represent employers and business owners in all aspects of their employee relations and compliance matters in state and federal courts, arbitrations, during collective bargaining negotiations and before the United States National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).  She will work closely with the Firm’s partners and the Chair of its Labor & Employment Group, Marc B. Zimmerman.

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Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, RBS, and Wells Fargo Securities as joint book running managers in connection with the public offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.75% Senior Notes due 2023 by D.R. Horton, Inc. Proceeds from the offering are for general corporate purposes.

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Cahill represented the financing sources in each of Valeant’s Common Stock, Bank Loan and High Yield Bond Transactions relating to its acquisition of Bausch & Lomb.

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Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce that intellectual property lawyer Clark G. Sullivan has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office.

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The Firm is representing Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P. (“Grosvenor”) in connection with its announced agreement to acquire Customized Fund Investment Group (“CFIG”) from Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS).  Following the completion of the transaction, CFIG will be renamed the GCM Customized Fund Investment Group, and will operate as a subsidiary of Grosvenor and maintain its New York headquarters. The combined firm will have over $40 billion in assets under management and 400 professionals across the globe.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented the lead arranger, GE Capital Markets, Inc. in connection with the financing related to Arbor Investments Management, LLC’s acquisition of Keyes Group Holdings, LLC and certain of its subsidiaries, including Keyes Fibre Corporation and Wrap Pack, Inc.

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Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund IV, L.P. (Southern Cross) in connection with the acquisition of San Antonio Internacional Co. Inc. (SAI) by Estrella International Energy Services Ltd. (Estrella), and related acquisition financing. Estrella is a group of companies engaged in providing services to the petroleum, mining and geothermal industries in Latin America and its controlling shareholder is Ringo Holding L.P. (Ringo), which is an affiliate of Southern Cross. The deal closed on August 1, 2013.

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Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of two renowned trademark partners to its Intellectual Property Practice in New York. Clark Lackert and Keith Sharkin were formerly partners in the New York IP practice of Dickstein Shapiro.

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Dentons announced today that Andrew D. Schifrin, a veteran energy lawyer, has joined its preeminent Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice as a partner in the New York office. Schifrin joins from Dickstein Shapiro LLP, where he was a partner. He previously was at Torys LLP and King & Spalding LLP.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised the banks in connection with the financing of private equity firm KKR’s $3.9 billion acquisition of Gardner Denver, Inc., a worldwide manufacturer of highly engineered products.

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