The Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley office has grown with the addition of Mr. Yan Zhang as its first corporate partner (more…)
Bayer HealthCare LLC has signed a merger agreement to acquire Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., a leading company offering vitamins and nutritional supplements in the United States and other countries, for approximately $1.2 billion (more…)
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising OPNET Technologies, Inc. in its pending acquisition by Riverbed Technology. Riverbed entered a definitive agreement to acquire OPNET for $43 per share in cash and stock, which represents an equity value of approximately $1 billion (more…)
Judy O’Brien, a prominent corporate lawyer and one of Silicon Valley’s top dealmakers, is joining King & Spalding as a partner in its Redwood Shores office on November 1 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.2% notes due 2017 and $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.5% notes due 2022. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC were the lead joint book-running managers (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Yelp Inc. in its approximately $50 million acquisition of Qype GmbH, Europe’s largest local reviews site. Qype was acquired to accelerate Yelp’s international expansion, bringing more than two million reviews and 15 million visitors per month across 13 countries. It is Yelp’s first acquisition since going public on March 12, 2012 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead joint book-running managers, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. as book-running managers, in connection the $302.4 million SEC-registered offering of 4.8 million shares of common stock of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. sold by certain selling stockholders (more…)
Davis Polk advised UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as administrative agent and UBS Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as lead arrangers in connection with a refinancing of Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, Inc.’s (Brand) existing first-lien and second-lien senior secured credit facilities (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Murphy Oil Corporation in connection with the spinoff to its stockholders of Murphy Oil USA, Inc., its U.S. downstream subsidiary, into an independent and separately traded company (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 5,060,000 shares of common stock of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (including 660,000 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $16.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $80.1 million (more…)
Shearman & Sterling has advised Ethical Oncology Science (EOS) on its collaboration and license agreement with Servier to further develop EOS’s antitumor drug E-3810. Under the terms of this agreement, EOS will receive a €45 million upfront payment, and Servier will obtain an exclusive license, covering the world with the exception of the United States, Japan and China. In addition, for an undisclosed amount, EOS will receive clinical and registration milestones as well as royalties (more…)
