Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that Adam Gale, the former head of Chadbourne & Parke’s hedge fund practice group, has joined the firm as a member in the Corporate & Securities Section.

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP today announced that David Y. Dickstein has joined the firm as a partner in its Financial Services Practice out of New York. Mr. Dickstein focuses his work on providing counsel to hedge funds, investment companies, investment advisors and broker-dealers on regulatory, compliance and operational issues. Additionally, he has broad experience in advising businesses responding to investigations by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Prior to joining Katten, Mr. Dickstein was a partner in the New York office of K&L Gates LLP, where he spent his entire career since graduation from law school.

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Cahill represented Bank of America, as administrative agent, in connection with a new $2,000,000,000 revolving credit facility for HCA, Inc. that replaced HCA’s existing revolving credit facility.

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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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