Shearman & Sterling has secured another legal victory for client The Dow Chemical Company in a ruling related to the record $2.1 billion ICC arbitral award announced in May 2012.

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Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Barclays Capital Inc. as joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Nuance Communications, Inc. of $350 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.375% senior notes due 2020. The notes reopen a prior offering of $700 million principal amount of notes in August 2012.

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Willkie recently represented MetLife, Inc. in the remarketing of (i) $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 1.756% Series C Senior Component Debentures, Tranche 1 and (ii) $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.048% Series C Senior Component Debentures, Tranche 2. The Series C Debentures were originally issued in November 2010 as $1 billion aggregate principal amount of Series C Senior Debentures due 2023, which formed part of MetLife’s 40 million Common Equity Units, with an aggregate stated amount at issuance of $3 billion.

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Davis Polk advised JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association as administrative agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as arranger of the financing in connection with Cencosud S.A.’s $2.5 billion acquisition of the Colombian operations of Carrefour S.A., the world’s second-largest retailer by sales.

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Kasowitz represented the joint venture of New Valley LLC and The Witkoff Group LLC in the acquisition, financing, and proposed development of 701 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Valley Proteins, Inc. in the acquisition of certain real and personal property of Perdue Farms LLC and certain of its affiliates used in the rendering business. The transaction also involved the negotiation of supply agreements between Valley Proteins, Perdue Farms and certain Perdue affiliates.

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Todd R. Harrison, former chief counsel for oversight and investigations for the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, has rejoined Patton Boggs as a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. Mr. Harrison is resident in the firm’s New York City and Washington DC offices.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Prudential Real Estate Investors, the real estate investment and advisory business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), in securing $805 million of discretionary capital for its Prudential U.S. Real Estate Debt Fund.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Banco Continental S.A.E.C.A., one of the largest banks in Paraguay, in connection with its issuance of $200 million 8.875% Senior Notes due 2017 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP recently advised Shutterstock, Inc. in the first initial public offering (IPO) for a New York-based technology company in more than two years. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol SSTK, the company raised $81.8 million in its IPO, which priced at $17 per share (above the proposed range of $13 to $15 per share) and landed the company’s market value at more than half a billion dollars. As a further testament to the offering’s success, the value of shares increased almost 30% to a value of $21.66 during the company’s first day of trading.

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