Davis Polk is advising Comcast Corporation on its $16.7 billion acquisition of General Electric Company’s 49% common equity stake in the NBCUniversal Media, LLC joint venture. NBCUniversal will also purchase from GE the properties used by NBCUniversal at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for approximately $1.4 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of this year.

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Cahill represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Securities, Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, and J.P. Morgan, as joint book-running managers, and the co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of $5-7/8% Senior Notes due 2023 by Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P.

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Cahill represented Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets as joint book-running managers and Wells Fargo Securities and PNC Capital Markets LLC as co-managers in connection with the Rule 144A offering of $220,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.625% Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2020 by Universal Hospital Services, Inc.

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Holland & Knight is expanding its New York offices once again, hiring three top attorneys who will practice in key growth areas for the firm. Rob Bernstein and Walter Dunn join Holland & Knight as partners; Eric Yecies joins as senior counsel.

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