Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced today that Steven F. Reich, who, until recently, served as associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, has joined the firm as a New York-based partner in the firm’s white collar defense and government investigations practice.

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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP today announced that David J. Greenwald, currently a deputy general counsel and international general counsel at the Goldman Sachs Group, has agreed to rejoin Fried Frank in a leadership role.   Valerie Ford Jacob, the Firm’s current Chairperson, and Mr. Greenwald will serve as Co-Chairs of the Firm through February of 2015. Beginning in March 2015, Mr. Greenwald will lead the Firm as Chairman and Ms. Jacob will become the Firm’s Senior Partner.

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Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, in a public offering of $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.625% Senior Notes due 2021 by American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (“AEL”).  This was the first high yield offering by AEL.

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC announced today the addition of Brian S. Rauch as shareholder in its Labor and Employment Section. Previously with Proskauer Rose LLP, Brian has extensive experience representing employers in all aspects of employment law and litigation, union/management relations and collective bargaining. With significant experience in real estate, construction, transportation, retail and financial services industries, Brian has a reputation of providing practical, business-focused guidance to clients.

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Squire Sanders announced today that financial restructuring lawyer Nava Hazan has joined the firm as a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group, resident in the New York office.

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami has joined the Firm as a partner in the global Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Practice Group. Mr. Khuzami joins the Firm after leading the SEC’s Enforcement Division for four years, and will be based in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., and New York offices.

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Cahill represented the underwriters in connection with the public offering of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.5% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2016 and $375,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2016 by Ally Financial Inc. Proceeds from the offering will be used to redeem outstanding notes.

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The Firm represented underwriters, led by Credit Suisse and Citigroup, in connection with public offerings of €750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.259% Senior Notes due 2023 and £300 million aggregate principal amount of 4.948% Senior Notes due 2033 by América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, in a secondary offering by certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (“Apollo”) of an aggregate of 25,125,070 shares of Realogy Holdings Corp.’s (“Realogy”) common stock, representing Apollo’s remaining equity interests in Realogy. The offering raised aggregate net proceeds of approximately $1.2 billion.

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Simpson Thacher represented Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX) in connection with a new $850 million revolving five-year credit facility.  The proceeds of the revolving credit facility are available to be used to refinance existing indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes.

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