Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with a variable maturity accelerated share repurchase transaction it entered into with BMC Software, Inc., under which BMC will repurchase $750 million of its common stock. The total number of shares to be repurchased will be determined over a period that is expected to last no longer than approximately seven months.

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In the largest real estate deal this year, Morrison & Foerster LLP is representing leading residential real estate investment trust Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) in a joint agreement with AvalonBay Communities to acquire a vast portfolio of U.S. apartment properties owned by Archstone. Equity Residential and AvalonBay are acquiring the portfolio from the Lehman Brothers estate for approximately $16 billion. The deal marks the largest real estate transaction since Blackstone Group’s $26 billion acquisition of Hilton Worldwide Inc. in 2007.

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Shearman & Sterling advised Jefferies Finance LLC, as administrative agent, collateral agent, sole lead arranger and bookrunner, in connection with a $355 million refinancing and one-time dividend transaction, comprised of a $220 million first lien term loan, a $25 million first lien revolver, and $110 million second lien term loan facility, for P2 Energy Solutions, Inc., a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners which provides software and data services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

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Simpson Thacher represented The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”) in the establishment of the Carlyle Energy Mezzanine Opportunities Fund, L.P. (“CEMOF”), which primarily targets investments in projects and companies in the power generation and energy sectors requiring capital of $20 million to $150 million per transaction. Carlyle has announced that CEMOF raised approximately $1.38 billion of total commitments.

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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch as sole book-running manager and BMO Capital Markets, CIBC, HSBC, RBC Capital Markets, Scotiabank, and TD Securities as co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 by Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd., a Canadian company. Proceeds from the offering and a concurrent rights offering will be used to refinance existing indebtedness.

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SNR Denton recently advised San Diego based Pulse Electronics (NYSE:PULS) in securing a debt and equity investment of approximately $102.7 million with certain affiliates of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (NYSE: OAK), a leading global investment management firm with approximately $81 billion under management.

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Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on an SEC-registered public debt offering by Airgas, Inc. of $250 million principal amount of its 2.9% notes due 2022.

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SNR Denton is pleased to announce that Eddie Frastai has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Real Estate practice.

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Paul Hastings LLP represented Cowen and Company, CRT Capital and The Seaport Group as joint book-running managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $200,000,000 of 11.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 by JW Aluminum Company, a manufacturer of specialty, flat-rolled aluminum products. Proceeds from the offering, together with amounts drawn at closing under JW Aluminum Company’s amended asset-based revolving credit facility, were used to refinance existing indebtedness.

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The Firm recently represented Sealed Air Corporation (“Sealed Air”) in connection with a secondary offering of 15,026,665 shares of common stock of Sealed Air by Commercial Markets Holdco, LLC.

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