An Akin Gump team led by corporate partners Bruce Mendelsohn and Alice Hsu advised Deutsche Bank, the sole underwriter in Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp’s initial public offering (IPO) of 32,500,000 units at $10.00 per unit (each unit consisting of one share of common stock and a warrant exercisable into half of a share of common stock). The units, stock and warrants are listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market. Silver Eagle is an acquisition vehicle formed by media executives Harry E. Sloan and Jeff Sagansky.

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Steven Bloom has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group in New York. He joins the firm after serving as partner at Bryan Cave LLP and formally Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP.

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Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP proudly welcomes two new partners to our team— Christian Samay and Joseph Saphia.

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Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Banco BTG Pactual S.A. – Cayman Branch as joint book-running managers of the several underwriters in connection with the initial public offering by Graña y Montero S.A.A. of 19,534,884 American Depositary Shares, each representing five of its common shares, at a price per ADS of US$21.13. The offering raised gross proceeds of US$412.8 million. The ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GRAM.”

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Davis Polk advised RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as lead managers on an SEC-registered offering by Royal Bank of Canada of $2 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.2% senior notes due 2018 under its $25 billion medium-term notes program.

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Davis Polk acted as special product counsel for J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as representatives of the underwriters on a registered public offering by American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 3% convertible senior notes due 2018.

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The Firm is representing Barclays Bank PLC and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. in connection with $4.35 billion of committed bridge financing to Perrigo Company in its announced $8.6 billion acquisition of Elan Corporation, PLC for $6.25 in cash plus 0.07636 shares of a newly formed Perrigo holding company for each Elan share, valuing each Elan share at $16.50 based on the closing price per Perrigo share on July 26, 2013. The proceeds of the bridge facilities will be available to finance a portion of the cash consideration for the acquisition, to repay certain indebtedness of Perrigo and to pay fees and expenses related thereto.

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The Firm represented Graña y Montero S.A.A. in connection with its $413 million initial public offering of American depositary shares, each representing five common shares, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Graña y Montero’s common shares have been listed on the Peruvian stock exchange since 1997.  The ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GRAM”.

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Simpson Thacher recently represented the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan Securities, in connection with the offering of $800 million aggregate principal amount of Senior PIK Toggle Notes by Michaels FinCo Holdings, LLC and a corporate co-issuer. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to fund a cash payment to equity and equity-award holders.

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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Michael Grandis has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department, bringing with him nearly 15 years of experience, primarily in the areas of public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, as well as corporate governance counseling. Most recently, he was a partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice at Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP in New York.

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