Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP today announced that attorney Stanford A. Renas has joined the firm as partner in its Structured Finance and Securitization Practice out of New York. Renas joins Katten with extensive experience in securitizing financial and hard assets in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

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Gibbons P.C. is pleased to announce that David J. Freeman has joined the firm’s New York office as a Director in the Real Property & Environmental Department. He joins the firm from Paul Hastings.

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Shearman & Sterling advised NGP Energy Capital Management (NGP) in the closing of NGP Natural Resources X, L.P., a $3.586 billion private equity fund. NGP X will continue NGP Energy Capital Management’s 23-year history as a premier provider of private capital and sponsorship to the natural resources industry, focusing on oil and gas production, oilfield services, and the energy mid-stream sectors through its Natural Gas Partners investment platform and focusing on the water resources and services and food and agriculture sectors through its NGP Global Adaptation Partners investment platform. NGP X will be managed by NGP, bringing the cumulative capital managed by NGP and its affiliates since inception to a total of $13 billion.

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The Firm is representing affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners in connection with their sale of a hotel portfolio to DiamondRock Hospitality Company for approximately $495 million of cash and DiamondRock common stock. The hotels included in the sale are the Hilton Boston, the Westin Washington D.C., the Westin San Diego and the Hilton Burlington.

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The Firm recently represented Team Health Holdings, Inc. (“TeamHealth”), Ensemble Parent LLC (an affiliate of The Blackstone Group) and certain management shareholders in the sale by the selling shareholders of 9,200,000 shares of TeamHealth common stock, resulting in gross proceeds of $220,340,000. After giving effect to the offering, Ensemble Parent LLC owns approximately 40% of TeamHealth’s common stock. Barclays and Citigroup acted as underwriters for the offering.

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Linklaters’ US team in New York has advised WellPoint Inc, America’s second-largest health insurance company, on its pending $4.9bn acquisition of health insurance rival Amerigroup Corporation.

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Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, a full-service national law firm, continues its growth with the addition of real estate attorneys Thomas J. Infurna and Lauren F. Wyler. Both are highly recognized and experienced in sophisticated real estate matters, and come to the firm from the New York office of McGuireWoods LLP. Infurna focuses on commercial real estate finance and asset-based finance, while Wyler concentrates on real estate finance and development transactions.

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Davis Polk is advising NBCUniversal Media, LLC in connection with the $3.025 billion sale of its 15.8% stake in A&E Television Networks, LLC to A&E’s other owners, The Walt Disney Company and The Hearst Corporation.

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Davis Polk is advising Patriot Coal Corporation in connection with its reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and the related $802 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. Patriot Coal and substantially all of its wholly owned subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on July 9, 2012.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal counsel to S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. in a $500 million private placement that helped launch S.A.C. Re, Ltd. S.A.C. Re is a Bermuda-based reinsurer whose founding investors include Steven A. Cohen and Capital Z. Partners III, L.P. It will target a combination of high margin property catastrophe and other property classes and low severity casualty reinsurance business.

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