Allen Matkins, a California-based full service real estate and business law firm, announced today the hiring of land use partner Fernando Villa in its Los Angeles office, where the firm also welcomes new tax associate Scott M. Dommes. The two new hires follow the recent addition of land use associate Michelle L. Moore in Allen Matkins’ San Francisco office (more…)
Davis Polk is advising BofA Merrill Lynch as financial adviser to BMC Software, Inc. in connection with its approximately $6.9 billion acquisition by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC Special Investments Pte. Ltd. and Insight Venture Partners. The transaction, which is expected to close later this year, is subject to approval from BMC shareholders, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Sara L. Chenetz has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Financial Transactions & Restructuring group. Chenetz, who represents clients in restructuring, bankruptcy, workouts, litigation and related matters, was most recently a partner at Blank Rome LLP (more…)
Land use lawyer Robert “Mac” McMurry has joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Previously with Gilchrist Rutter, McMurry brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the entitlement of major land development projects in California, such as Newhall Land & Farming in Santa Clarita Valley, Tejon Ranch in Kern County, Heritage Fields in Irvine, Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and Centennial in Antelope Valley. McMurry has particular expertise in guiding Master Plan Communities from original design to completion, including defending against legal challenges brought by project opponents (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Corsair Components, Inc., worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to PC gaming enthusiasts, in a $75 million investment from tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., in connection with the registered public offering by Apple Inc. of $17 billion aggregate principal amount of notes over six tranches with maturities ranging from three to 30 years. The offering, Apple’s first since 1996, represents the largest corporate offering in history. The net proceeds from the offering will be used for general corporate purposes, including repurchases of common stock and payment of dividends under Apple’s recently expanded program to return capital to shareholders (more…)
Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Tracey K. Merwise has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as Partner. Ms. Merwise, who previously served as Co-Chair of Severson & Werson’s Labor and Employment practice group, has more than 17 years of workplace law experience (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented lead arranger Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., in connection with a first lien ABL facility for Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated, a global provider of air transport services. The total financing consisted of a $100 million first lien ABL facility and a $400 million second lien notes offering. A portion of the notes proceeds were used as financing for the acquisition of Evergreen Helicopters, Inc (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in agreement with NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, to establish a European data centre in the U.K. Scheduled for completion in 2014, the new data centre will be salesforce.com’s sixth worldwide and will support the company’s cloud computing services across its growing customer base in Europe, Middle East and Africa (more…)
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that four noted intellectual property litigators have joined the firm as partners in the Litigation Department. The team of attorneys adds recognized patent trial experience to the firm, which has made a series of bold market moves in recent years in building a premier Intellectual Property Litigation Practice (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented Associated Materials, LLC (“Associated Materials”) and its co-issuer in connection with an offering of $100 million aggregate principal amount of 9.125% senior secured notes due 2017. The notes were issued as additional notes under the same indenture governing $730 million of existing senior secured notes. Associated Materials used a portion of the net proceeds from the notes to repay all of the outstanding borrowings under its senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities and intends to use the remaining net proceeds for other general corporate purposes (more…)
The Firm represented Microsoft Corporation in connection with its inaugural offering of euro-denominated debt securities and its offering of U.S. dollar-denominated debt securities. The underwriters for both offerings were led by BofA Merrill Lynch and RBS (more…)
