Shearman & Sterling is advising TIBCO Software Inc. in its acquisition of Maporama Solutions SAS, a French company engaged in providing geocentric mapping solutions and services (more…)
Davis Polk Advises Citigroup in Connection with Amending and Restating Eastman Kodak Company’s Debtor-In-Possession Revolving Credit Facility (more…)
Davis Polk advised Comcast Corporation, NBCUniversal Media, LLC and NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc. in connection with the issuance and sale of $4 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes and $725 million aggregate liquidation preference of Series A cumulative preferred stock of NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc. The notes are guaranteed by Comcast and certain of its cable subsidiaries that guarantee Comcast’s publicly traded debt securities. The notes and the preferred stock were issued in connection with Comcast’s acquisition on March 19, 2013, of the 49% common equity interest in NBCUniversal, LLC held by General Electric Company (GE). Sales of the notes and preferred stock were made in separate private placements pursuant to Rule 144A (more…)
Davis Polk advised Westar Energy, Inc. in connection with its SEC-registered offering of $250 million in aggregate principal amount of 4.10% first-mortgage bonds due 2043. The joint book-running managers were BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (more…)
Davis Polk advised Leerink Swann LLC as the sole book-running manager in connection with an SEC-registered offering of 2,300,000 shares of common stock of Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI), including 300,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $38 million (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Goldcorp Inc. in connection with a registered shelf takedown of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.125% Notes due 2018 and $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.700% Notes due 2023 (more…)
Continuing with its planned strategic growth, Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, the IP super boutique, announced that Pamela K. Fulmer joined the firm as a partner on March 18th. She will practice out of the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices where she will concentrate on intellectual property litigation as well as disputes related to trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing and other complex issues (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as sole book-running manager and representative of the underwriters of a $149 million SEC-registered offering of 1,725,000 shares of common stock of HeartWare International, Inc., including 225,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. Canaccord Genuity Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Lazard Capital Markets LLC acted as co-managers of the offering (more…)
Davis Polk advised E*TRADE Financial Corporation in connection with an SEC-registered block trade by Citadel Equity Fund Ltd., an affiliate of Citadel LLC, of 27,394,448 shares of E*TRADE common stock. Citadel received aggregate proceeds of approximately $309 million from the offering. Citigroup was the sole underwriter (more…)
VLP Law Group LLP is very pleased to announce that trademark attorney Scott R. Austin, Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Intellectual Property Law, has joined the firm from Gordon & Rees LLP (more…)
Continuing its investment in Silicon Valley, Bingham McCutchen LLP augmented its technology, life sciences, clean technology and emerging-markets capabilities with the addition of three lawyers to the Corporate Practice Group (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered debt offering by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.375% senior notes due 2023 (more…)
