Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund IV, L.P. (“Southern Cross”) in connection with its investment in Estrella International Energy Services Ltd. The deal closed August 8, 2012.

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is representing VanceInfo Technologies Inc. in its tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with hiSoft Technology International Limited, valued at US$875 million.

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Davis Polk advised the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury) in connection with its offering of approximately 188.5 million shares of common stock of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), which included the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, representing proceeds to Treasury of approximately $5.75 billion. AIG agreed to purchase approximately 98.4 million shares in the offering, representing approximately $3.0 billion of Treasury’s proceeds from the sale. The offering reduced Treasury’s remaining investment in AIG to approximately 871.1 million shares of common stock and reduced Treasury’s percentage ownership of AIG’s outstanding shares of common stock from 61% to approximately 53%.

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Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Celgene Corporation of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 1.9% senior notes due 2017 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 3.25% senior notes due 2022.

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Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. as the sole underwriter in connection with an SEC-registered secondary offering of 3,000,000 shares of Class A common stock of Duff & Phelps Corporation, of which 1,794,556 shares were sold by Vestar Capital Partners and its affiliates and 1,205,444 shares were sold by Shinsei Bank, Limited. The net proceeds of the offering were approximately $40 million. The Class A common stock is listed on the NYSE.

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