Davis Polk represents various subsidiaries of Comcast Corp. in four patent infringement lawsuits against Sprint Communications Co. LP pending in federal courts across the country. On August 10, 2015, Judge Andrews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied Sprint’s motions for judgment as a matter of law and a new trial that sought to overturn an October 2014 jury verdict finding that Sprint infringed three Comcast patents and awarding $7.5 million in damages. Judge Andrews also granted Comcast an additional $1.69 million in pre-judgment interest as well as post-judgment interest and an on-going royalty to be determined at a later date (more…)

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Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP represented Berkshire Hathaway in its acquisition of Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) announced Aug. 10, 2015. Valued at approximately $37.2 billion, one of the largest deals Berkshire has done, according to media reports (more…)

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Houlihan Lokey, Inc., the international investment bank, has priced its initial public offering of 10,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $21.00 per share, as noted in the below press release issued by the company. The shares began trading on Thursday, August 13, 2015 on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “HLI.” (more…)

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Cooley advised GeneWEAVE Biosciences on its approximately $425 million sale to Roche (more…)

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DLA Piper advised The Coca-Cola Company in an investment and distribution partnership with Suja Juice, an organic, cold-pressured and hand-crafted beverage company (more…)

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Simpson Thacher recently represented CBRE Group, Inc. (“CBRE”) in connection with the offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 4.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued by CBRE Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CBRE, and are guaranteed by CBRE and the subsidiaries that guarantee its senior credit facility. The Notes are being offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that CBRE previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The proceeds of the offering are being used for general corporate purposes, including paying a portion of the consideration for the previously announced acquisition of Johnson Controls, Inc.’s Global Workplace Solutions business (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP represented IPC Healthcare (NASDAQ: IPCM) in the recently announced merger with Team Health Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion. For its proposed acquisition of IPC, Tennessee-based TeamHealth offered $80.25 a share, a 37 percent premium based on IPC’s closing stock price on the previous trading day. The combined company would employ 15,000 health care professionals nationwide (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling is advising Symphony Technology Group on the sale of CoreOne Technologies Holdings LLC to Markit Group Limited in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million (more…)

Shearman & Sterling represented Roth Capital Partners, LLC as Book-Running Manager in connection with the public offering of Class A Units and Class B Units of xG Technology, Inc. (“xG”) (more…)

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Morgan Lewis represented Andell Inc., a private investment firm, in the acquisition of Capital Vision Services (CVS) together with investment partners Altas Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (more…)

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