Keith N. Costa has joined Schiff Hardin LLP as a Partner in the Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Group from Akerman Senterfitt LLP in New York. 

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announces that David A. Lewis has joined the firm in its Lawyers Professional Responsibility/Risk Management Group. Mr. Lewis will practice in Hinshaw’s New York office.

Davis Polk advised Canadian National Railway Company (CN) on a registered public offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 1.45% notes due 2016 and $400 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.85% notes due 2021. The notes were offered under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System for U.S. and Canadian issuers adopted by the SEC.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP represented Evolution Fresh, Inc and Fireman Capital Partners in the sale of Evolution Fresh, Inc. to Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX).

Covington & Burling represented Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. in its agreement to acquire Oceana Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held global provider of gastroenterology and urology therapeutics, for $300 million in cash.

Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as the initial purchaser on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Spectrum Brands, Inc., of $200 million aggregate principal amount of its 9.5% senior secured notes due 2018. The notes are guaranteed by Spectrum Brands’ immediate parent company and by certain of its subsidiaries and are secured by first-priority liens on substantially all of the assets (other than accounts receivable and inventory) of Spectrum Brands and the guarantors and by second-priority liens, behind Spectrum Brands’ $300 million asset-based revolving credit facility due 2014, on their accounts receivable and inventory.

Simpson Thacher recently represented Becton Dickinson & Company in a registered offering of $500 million 1.750% Notes due 2016 and $1.0 billion of 3.125% Notes due 2021.

Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley Infrastructure in connection with the sale of its 50% interest in Inversiones Grupo Saesa Limitada to investment vehicles managed by Alberta Investment Management Corporation.

Proskauer announced the expansion of its Finance Group and global Corporate Department with the addition of Partner Andrew Bettwy and Senior Counsel Glen K. Lim.

Morgan Lewis today announced the addition of Margaret C. Wilson as a partner in its Tax Practice, resident in Princeton and New York. A former partner at another international firm and previously associate general counsel of tax at Verizon, Ms. Wilson has spent 15 years advising clients on state and local taxation (“SALT”) issues.  Her arrival further establishes the firm as a significant presence in the SALT field.