Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC as joint book-running managers of the several underwriters in connection with the $117.85 million initial public offering of 8,418,000 shares of common stock of Chimerix, Inc., which included 1,098,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option in full. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “CMRX.”

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Day Pitney is pleased to announce that Jeffrey S. Held has joined the firm as partner in the Real Estate, Environmental and Land Use department. A real estate transactions veteran, Mr. Held has been involved in numerous stand-alone real estate transactions and provided real estate guidance in significant corporate and financing transactions. He will be based in Day Pitney’s New York office.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC and Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. in connection with the initial public offering of Neuberger Berman MLP Income Fund Inc. (the “Fund”). The offering raised approximately $1.1 billion, assuming full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, announced that Daniel Serota has joined its New York City office as a Shareholder in the Corporate & Securities Practice.

Serota focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and corporate governance matters.

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Wendy Huang Waszmer, former assistant chief of the New York field office of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division, is joining King & Spalding’s antitrust practice as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

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Longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Fish has joined international law firm Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in its nationwide White Collar/Internal Investigations Practice. Fish has served with the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for 14 years, most recently as deputy chief of the appeals unit and previously with the securities and commodities fraud task force and the major crimes unit. As a member of Locke Lord’s Litigation Department, Fish’s widespread experience in insider trading, securities fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, embezzlement and other jury trials will expand the Firm’s capabilities in the White Collar/Internal Investigations arena and also provide valuable synergies with the Antitrust and IP Pharmaceutical practices.

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Cahill represented Wells Fargo Securities, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and Citigroup as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $3,100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.25% Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2020 by Hawk Acquisition Sub. Inc., to be merged with and into H.J. Heinz Company.

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Cravath represented the underwriters, J.P. Morgan Securities, Credit Suisse, BofA Merrill Lynch and Goldman, Sachs & Co., in connection with the US$300 million registered high‑yield senior debt offering of Navistar International Corporation, a leading manufacturer of commercial and military trucks, buses, diesel engines and recreational vehicles. The transaction closed on April 2, 2013.

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Chadbourne & Parke commenced a case under Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code for Chartis Excess Ltd., a subsidiary of AIG. Chartis Excess is requesting an order granting recognition to court proceedings before the High Court of Ireland and enforcing a scheme of arrangement sanctioned by the Irish High Court. The action is part of a larger reorganization of AIG and to prepare for upcoming changes to European insurance rules, which are designed to protect policyholders and prevent insurance companies from failing.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Reich and Tang, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management, S.A, in the agreement to acquire five money market funds from HighMark Management Capital Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Bank, NA.

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