Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP recently represented affiliates of KKR Asset Management LLC (KAM) in connection with the upsize by $300 million of the existing KKR Financial CLO 2011-1, Ltd. secured financing transaction, permitting the CLO issuer to borrow up to an incremental $225 million to purchase senior secured corporate loans. In connection with the upsize, KKR Financial Holdings LLC increased its residual interest in the transaction through the acquisition of an additional $75 million of subordinated notes. The transaction initially closed in March 2011 and was previously upsized in July 2011 (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on FireEye, Inc.’s $303.5 million initial public offering. FireEye, a California-based technology company, invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised CBRE Group, Inc. on the acquisition of Fameco, a leading firm specializing in retail real estate services in the US Mid-Atlantic region. The acquisition of Fameco significantly bolsters CBRE’s retail service offering in the greater Philadelphia area and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling represented the Province of Ontario in connection with its public offering of US$1,750,000,000 of its 2.000% Bonds due September 27, 2018. Application will be made to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange for the bonds to be admitted to trading on the Euro MTF Market of the exchange (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Rizvi Traverse Management as the lead investor in a US$50 million Series C financing round for Flipboard Inc., an innovative technology company and creator of the world’s first social magazine. Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers also participated (more…)

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is representing Applied Materials Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based leader in semiconductor equipment manufacturing, in its merger with Japan-based Tokyo Electron Ltd., to create a new company with a combined market capitalization of approximately $29 billion (2.8 trillion yen) (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.’s initial public offering. Five Prime is a San Francisco-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel protein therapeutics for cancers and inflammatory diseases. Five Prime now trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “FPRX.” (more…)

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