Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint book-running managers on the SEC-registered offering by Altera Corporation of $500 million of its 1.75% notes due 2017 (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing private equity firm Rockwood Capital and Four Corners Properties, a Silicon Valley office and R&D developer, in a $90 million acquisition of a vacant office campus consisting of over 500,000 square feet on the border of Mountain View and Palo Alto from William Lyon Homes (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company, in a private placement of $175 million of senior unsecured notes by institutional investors (more…)
Simpson Thacher is representing GeoVera Insurance Group Holdings, Ltd. in connection with GeoVera’s pending acquisition by entities controlled by Flexpoint Ford, LLC (more…)
The Firm represented Catalina Marketing Corporation in connection with its acquisition of Modiv Media, Inc., a provider of mobile commerce solutions (more…)

Davis Polk advised Stockbridge Real Estate Funds in connection with a $300 million construction financing arranged by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as lead arranger, with Keycorp Real Estate Capital Markets, Inc., as administrative and disbursement agent, for the renovation and repositioning of the Sahara Hotel & Casino (to be renamed the SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas) by a joint venture between the Stockbridge Funds and an affiliate of SBE Entertainment Group, LLC (more…)
Omnicell, Inc., (OMCL) a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions to healthcare systems, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., a worldwide provider of medication adherence packaging systems, for $156 million, subject to certain adjustments, in a cash transaction (more…)
Covington & Burling LLP advised the University of California, Santa Cruz on the creation of a national, federally-financed bioinformatics database (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that leading corporate and capital markets lawyer Andrew S. “Drew” Williamson has joined the firm as a partner (more…)

Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice in California with the arrival of Partner Kenneth Roberts, who joined the firm’s Orange County office (more…)
White collar criminal defense lawyer Anthony Pacheco has joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) as a partner in its Los Angeles office (more…)
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby ETP will acquire Sunoco in a unit and cash transaction valued at US$50.13 per share, or a total consideration of approximately US$5.3 billion, based on ETP’s closing price on April 27, 2012 (more…)

