Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. announced today Judith Joan Sullivan has joined the firm as a shareholder in its Corporate & Securities Group. Ms. Sullivan will also serve as Chair of the International Business Department.  She will divide her time between the firm’s New York and Newark, NJ offices.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges represented Presidio, Inc., a leading provider of IT services, in the closing of its acquisition of INX Inc., a Houston-based IT services company, in an all-cash transaction. INX stockholders will receive $8.75 per share under terms of an agreement approved by INX stockholders on December 29, 2011. The deal was originally announced in early November. Presidio, Inc. is owned by American Securities LLC and the company’s management.

On December 27, it was announced that Willkie client Ventas, Inc., the leading healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cogdell Spencer Inc. and its 72 high quality medical office buildings for approximately $770 million in cash, including debt.

Davis Polk is advising Credit Suisse AG as administrative agent and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. as arrangers in connection with a commitment to provide up to $275 million in term loans and an additional $50 million in revolving loans (which may be increased by $20 million in the event of a successful syndication) for Cod Intermediate, LLC, a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners II (MIP II). The commitment is being made in connection with MIP II’s acquisition of all of the common stock of WCA Waste Corporation. Up to $265 million of the term loan facility will be available to pay the purchase price in connection with the acquisition, repurchase WCA’s outstanding notes pursuant to the exercise of put rights following a change of control offer and/or any debt tender offer and to refinance WCA’s existing revolving credit facility. The amount of term loans will be reduced by the amount of notes that are not repurchased pursuant to the exercise of put rights or any debt tender offer. The amount of term loans in excess of $265 million and the proceeds of the revolving facility will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today it lead an international legal and financial advisory team representing the Senior Lenders ofAustralia-based Centro Properties Group’s (CNP) in finalizing CNP’s global restructuring efforts, widely recognized as one of the most complex and innovative restructurings in Australian history. The restructuring, finalized after four years of discussions and interim arrangements, combines a novel debt-for-equity swap with an aggregation of assets into a new real estate investment trust called Centro Retail Australia (CRF), integrating U.S.-style pre-packaged plan concepts into the existing Australian restructuring regime.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to announce that Douglass C. Hochstetler and Beth D. Jacob have joined the firm as partners in the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation group working from the firm’s Chicago and New York offices.  They each focus on patent infringement litigation representing pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman litigation.  They come from the law firm of Schiff Hardin, where both were partners.

International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Linda C. Goldstein has joined the firm as a partner in the White Collar and Securities Litigation practice. She will be resident in the firm’s New York office. Goldstein was most recently a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and a co-chair of its Securities/Derivatives Litigation & Enforcement practice.

Davis Polk is advising Credit Suisse AG and the other joint lead arrangers in connection with the bridge and bond financing portion of a €870 million financing to be provided to Apollo Management, L.P. in connection with its LBO of Taminco Group Holdings S.à.r.l. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2012.

Simpson Thacher represented American Industrial Partners in connection with the establishment of its fifth private equity fund, American Industrial Partners Capital Fund V, L.P. (the “Fund”).  The Fund, which raised $700 million in limited partner commitments, held a first and final closing after only two months of fundraising.  American Industrial Partners seeks to acquire control positions in industrial companies based in North America.

The Firm represented the underwriters in connection with three registered public offerings by First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”): (i) 56,911,764 shares of common stock, underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P., BofA Merrill Lynch, and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; (ii) 14,000,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Perpetual Non-cumulative Preferred Stock, Series B, at a liquidation preference of $25 per share, underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, Citigroup and Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P.; and (iii) $300 million aggregate principal amount of 7.25% Subordinated Notes due 2021, underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. and BofA Merrill Lynch.