Shearman & Sterling represented Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Barclays Bank PLC, Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., UBS Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as arrangers in connection with a $1.62 billion term loan and a $250 million revolving credit facility related to the acquisition of Above Net, Inc. by Zayo Group, LLC.
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Ogier have announced that Julie Melia joined the firm as a Partner and Co-Head of the Property Law Group on 2 July. Julie is a senior Advocate with 20 years of experience in Jersey and is very well respected in the local property industry by clients, intermediaries and her peers.
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Clayton Utz has appointed Clive Luck as a partner in its Perth Construction & Major Projects practice, with effect from 1 July 2012.
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Sandvik has entered into a five year strategic outsourcing agreement valued at approximately SEK 2 billion with IBM. Through the agreement, Sandvik will outsource a significant part of its global IT infrastructure services, including data center and workplace services (consisting of all PC-related services), and IBM will offer employment to Sandvik’s resources currently working in these areas. The agreement strengthens the internal business solution for Sandvik IT and reflects Sandvik’s ambition to be a globally integrated company.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP advised The Standard Bank of South Africa on a US$ 765 million bridge financing and guarantee facility for Shoreline Natural Resources Limited (“SNR”), for its acquisition of a 45 per cent interest in OML 30, a major onshore oil producing block in Nigeria together with a 45% interest in other assets under the joint operating agreement for OML 30, which includes a segment of the Trans Forcados pipeline. SNR is a joint venture between the UK-listed Heritage Oil Plc, and its Nigerian partner Shoreline Power Company Limited.
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HWL Ebsworth has announced the appointment of David Chew as a partner in its Melbourne Insurance Group.
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International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Linde AG, a publicly held company headquartered in Munich, Germany, as health regulatory counsel in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Lincare Holdings Inc., a Clearwater, Florida-based home health care company. Lincare Holdings Inc. provides home-based respiratory and related services and equipment to more than 800,000 customers in the United States and Canada, making it one of the largest such providers in the U.S.
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McGuireWoods LLP announced today the addition of Steven Geerlings and Marc Isaacs, who have joined the firm’s finance team in London as partners.
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Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. is pleased to announce that Jonathan W. Emery has joined the Firm as a Member and will be based in our New York Office. His areas of practice are Corporate Business Law and Securities Law.
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SNR Denton advised Saffar Holdings Limited (Saffar), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focussed financial services and investment group on the sale of Zawya Limited (Zawya), the leading MENA online business intelligence platform to Thomson Reuters, the worlds foremost provider of information for businesses and professionals.
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