O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging pharmaceutical company developing RNA interference-based therapeutics against genetically defined targets in multiple disease areas, in a Series C preferred stock financing in which Dicerna raised US$60 million (more…)
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, represented Hanergy Holding Group Limited, China’s largest private renewable energy company, on its US acquisition of Global Solar Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar technology based in Tucson, Arizona (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered follow-on offering of 10,925,000 ordinary shares of Fleetmatics Group PLC, of which 1,000,000 ordinary shares were issued and sold by the Company and 9,925,000 ordinary shares were sold by the selling shareholders, for an aggregate price to the public of $313.5 million. The shares include 1,425,000 ordinary shares purchased by the underwriters pursuant to an option provided by one selling shareholder (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with a $132.2 million offering of common stock of Rally Software Development Corp. at $24.75 per share, consisting of 250,000 shares of common stock offered by the company and 5,089,455 shares of common stock offered by the selling stockholders (including 729,058 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, in connection with Oracle Corporation’s first registered public offering of euro-denominated notes. Oracle Corporation offered €1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.250% senior notes due 2021 and €750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.125% senior notes due 2025. The euro-denominated notes are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (more…)
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Zelman Partners LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with the initial public offering of 7,750,000 shares of Class A Common Stock of UCP, Inc. The Class A Common Stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “UCP” (more…)
The firm is representing an affiliate of KKR Asset Management in connection with its pending acquisition of a 9.5% stake in PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food Tbk (“TPSF”). This will be KKR’s first investment in Indonesia (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its public offering of approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock. AcelRx is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Singapore-based YFind Technologies Private Limited in its sale to Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Yfind is a pioneer in indoor positioning and real-time location analytics and the inventor of the YFind Positioning System™ (YPS™). Ruckus intends to use the acquisition to enable new location-based services by combining its unique, Smart Wi-Fi technology with YFind’s range of location based services and analytical capabilities, transforming Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi networks into location-intelligent infrastructures (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Quality Systems, Inc. in connection with its agreement with certain affiliates of Clinton Group, Inc. related to the Quality Systems 2013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Under the terms of the agreement, the Quality Systems Board of Directors will consist of nine members and will include three of the Clinton Group’s nominees – James C. Malone, Peter M. Neupert and Morris Panner – who will stand for election to the Board of Directors at the 2013 Annual Meeting. The remaining six seats on the Board will consist of Quality Systems’ nominees. The Clinton Group agreed, among other things, to withdraw its proposals concerning the amendment of the Company’s bylaws and to observe certain standstill provisions (more…)
Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2019, $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.375% notes due 2019 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.625% notes due 2023. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. were the lead joint book-running managers (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with a public offering by Best Buy Co., Inc. of $500 million principal amount of 5% notes due 2018 (more…)
