Davis Polk is advising Getty Investments in connection with the $3.3 billion acquisition of Getty Images, Inc. Getty Images co-founder and chairman Mark Getty and the Getty family will roll substantially all of their 30% ownership interests into the transaction, and increase their ownership stake going forward, while Hellman & Friedman LLC will sell its controlling interest to The Carlyle Group (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., in connection with eBay Inc.’s registered public offering of $3 billion aggregate principal amount of investment grade Notes, comprised of $250 million of 0.70% Notes due 2015, $1 billion of 1.35% Notes due 2017, $1 billion of 2.60% Notes due 2022 and $750 million of 4.00% Notes due 2042 (more…)
A team of Goodwin Procter attorneys is advising Taiwanese software developer SpringSoft in its planned acquisition by Synopsys, Inc (more…)
Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A offering by Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of $201.25 million aggregate principal amount of 2.75% convertible senior notes due 2019 (more…)
The Firm is representing hiSoft Technology International Limited (“hiSoft”) in connection with its proposed merger with VanceInfo Technologies Inc. (“VanceInfo”). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined equity value of approximately US$875 million. VanceInfo and hiSoft shareholders will each own approximately 50% of the combined company. The combined company will continue to be traded on the NASDAQ as hiSoft shares (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Westar Energy, Inc. in connection with an SEC-registered dribble-out offering and related forward transactions as part of its existing $500 million continuous equity financing program. BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, acted as the sales agent (more…)
Davis Polk advised Ingram Micro Inc. on its SEC-registered debt offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2022. The offering was made through an underwriting syndicate led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBS Securities Inc (more…)
Davis Polk advised Texas Instruments Incorporated on its SEC-registered debt offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of notes, consisting of $750 million of 0.45% notes due 2015 and $750 million of 1.65% notes due 2019. The offering was made through an underwriting syndicate led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (more…)
DLA Piper represented MarkMonitor, a global leader in online brand protection, in its acquisition by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals (more…)
Moving to expand its already strong life sciences capabilities, international law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the addition of two new partners and a team of seasoned patent practitioners in its Silicon Valley and Boston offices (more…)
Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as representative of the several underwriters of a $46 million SEC-registered follow-on offering of 7,076,922 shares of common stock of XenoPort, Inc (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented CytomX Therapeutics Inc. in the expansion of its Series B round, bringing the total raised to US$41 million (more…)
