The New York office of Quinn Emanuel has recruited attorney Tai-Heng Cheng as a partner to the firm’s international arbitration practice.

Mr. Cheng is a tenured professor and co-chair of New York University’s Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy.  He is a graduate Yale Law School and Oxford University.

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The expansion of the firm’s international arbitration practice is a priority for 2012. As part of that effort, Tai-Heng Cheng, tenured professor and Co-Director of New York Law School’s Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy, has now joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Stephen Jagusch, former Global Chair of Allen & Overy’s International Arbitration Practice, and his partner Anthony Sinclair, one of the leading public international law practitioners in the field, have announced that they will join the firm’s London office as partners. This follows on the recent additions of David Orta from Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C., and Ivan Marisin, former Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Moscow office, and his colleague Vasily Kuznetsov in Moscow. Working alongside the firm’s International and Domestic Arbitration Chair, Fred Bennett, these additions substantially enhance the firm’s ability to represent clients in international arbitration matters.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR), a real estate investment trust, in the final closing of Acadia Strategic Opportunity Fund IV LLC (“Fund IV”). The fund has received total capital commitments of approximately $541 million since its initial closing on May 16, 2012.

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Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representative of the initial purchasers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Continental Resources, Inc. of $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 5% senior notes due 2022.

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Shearman & Sterling represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with Broadcom Corporation’s offering of $500 million of its 2.500% Senior Notes due 2022. Broadcom Corporation is a California-based company that develops semiconductors for wired and wireless communications

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Shearman & Sterling advised LMA International N.V. (LMA), a Curaçao limited liability company listed on the Singapore Exchange, on its acquisition by Teleflex Incorporated in a transaction valued at approximately $276 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012 and remains subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals, as well as other customary closing conditions.

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Cahill represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, Wells Fargo Securities, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as joint book-running managers and the co-managers in the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $1,300,000,000 6 3/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 by First Data Corporation. Proceeds from the offering will be used to prepay term loans under the company’s senior secured credit facilities.

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Shearman & Sterling advised the underwriters in connection with Sprint Nextel Corporation’s offering of $1.5 billion of 7.000% notes due 2020. J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint bookrunners.

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Loeb & Loeb LLP represented a special committee of the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., a provider of analytic software solutions for the security and business intelligence markets, in its announced acquisition of Comverse Technology Inc. The all-stock deal, valued at approximately $805 million, will eliminate Comverse’s majority ownership in and control of Verint.

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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Securities partner Doug Tanner and Transportation and Space Finance partner Drew Fine, acted as special New York counsel to Credit Agricole Securities and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an offering of approximately US$288 million 1.829% Senior Notes Due 2024 by Carobao Leasing LLC, which notes are guaranteed by Export-Import Bank of the United States (“Ex-Im Bank”).

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