International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Aisha Hunt has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Financial Services practice. Hunt was most recently with Cole-Frieman Mallon & Hunt LLP, where she headed the ’40 Act Practice with a focus on alternative mutual funds (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc. as underwriter in connection with the secondary offering of 1,800,000 shares of common stock of Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. sold by certain selling stockholders for an aggregate price to the public of $24.57 million (more…)
Strengthening the West Coast presence of its national Entertainment Law Department, Fox Rothschild has welcomed seasoned and savvy entertainment attorney Jody Simon to the firm as partner, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented Goldman, Sachs & Co. as the sole underwriter in connection with a registered public offering of 7,964,601 shares of common stock of Tesla Motors, Inc. that resulted in aggregate gross proceeds to the company of approximately $225 million (more…)
Shearman & Sterling is advising Quadramed, a provider of leading information technology solutions for the healthcare industry, on the sale of Quantim, its health information management (HIM) business, to Nuance Communications, Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed (more…)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, announced that Frank A. Merola has joined the Financial Restructuring Practice Group as a Partner in the Los Angeles office, effective immediately (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Oaktree Capital Management and its real estate opportunities funds and distressed debt funds in connection with Oaktree’s first ever securitization of non-performing loans and other real estate (more…)
Laura L. Chapman has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Chapman joins from Foley & Lardner (more…)
Davis Polk advised UBS Investment Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with an SEC-registered offering by GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT) of an aggregate principal amount of $220 million of 3% convertible senior notes due 2017, which included $15 million aggregate principal of notes from the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional notes (more…)
Davis Polk advised Indeed, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Recruit Co., Ltd (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in connection with a $250 million four-year term loan financing for Computer Sciences Corporation. Concurrently with this transaction, a Shearman & Sterling team also represented the underwriters led by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Capital Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with the $700 million senior unsecured notes offering by Computer Sciences Corporation (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented China Kanghui Holdings (Kanghui) in entering into a merger agreement with Medtronic, Inc., whereby Kanghui will be acquired by Medtronic. The transaction is valued at approximately US$816 million, and expected to close before the end of 2012 (more…)
