Shearman & Sterling advised Legg Mason, Inc. as borrower under a $1 billion aggregate financing, including a $500 million five-year term loan and a $500 million five-year revolving credit facility agented by Citibank, N.A.

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Cahill represented the underwriters in connection with the public offering by Choice Hotels International, Inc. of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.75% Senior Notes due 2022. Proceeds from the offering are expected to be used for payment of a dividend.

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National law firm BuckleySandler hired Andrew W. Schilling for a New York legal job, according to a press release.

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Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP has announced that Klas S. D. Holm has joined the firm as a partner in its International Tax practice, based in New York.  Mr. Holm had been a partner in the Tax practice at Baker & McKenzie LLP.

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Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on an SEC-registered offering by Caterpillar Inc. of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of notes. The notes were issued in three tranches: $500 million principal amount of 0.95% senior notes due 2015, $500 million principal amount of 1.5% senior notes due 2017 and $500 million principal amount of 2.6% senior notes due 2022.

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Cahill represented the underwriters in the registered offering of $1,500,000,000 of Ally Financial senior notes, comprised of $1,000,000 4.625% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2015 and $500,000,000 5.5% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2017. The proceeds of the offering will be used for general corporate purposes.

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The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup, in a public offering of $1,500,000,000 principal amount of 4.000% Notes due 2042 of Target Corporation.

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Shearman & Sterling represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $1 billion unsecured financing for Tyco International Finance S.A.; represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $750 million unsecured financing for The ADT Corporation, a division of Tyco International; and represented Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith as bookrunners and lead arrangers of a $2.225 billion unsecured bridge facility for The ADT Corporation.

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Shearman & Sterling is representing B/E Aerospace, Inc. (B/E Aerospace) and its wholly owned subsidiary, B/E Aerospace Systems Holding GmbH, in its acquisition of Interturbine Projekt Management GmbH (IPM) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries for approximately EUR 200 million in cash.

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Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with a $500 million debtor-in-possession and exit financing for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc. and certain of its affiliates (the “Company”). The financing, consisting of a secured term loan facility and an asset-based revolving credit facility, was in conjunction with a pre-arranged bankruptcy filing of the Company that resulted in confirmation of the Company’s plan of reorganization and emergence from chapter 11 in just over 30 days.

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