Davis Polk advised IHS Inc., as issuer, and Conscientia Investment Limited, as selling stockholder, on the SEC-registered secondary offering by the selling stockholder of 10,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, for an aggregate price to public of $1 billion. Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as underwriter.
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Simmons & Simmons is advising Veolia on the sale of its UK regulated water businesses. The purchaser is Rift Acquisitions Limited, who are acquiring the business at auction for a total transaction value of £1,236 million. The Veolia companies being sold include Veolia Water Central, Southeast and East.
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Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce that Michael A. Sweet, a seasoned litigator with extensive financial restructuring and bankruptcy experience, has joined the firm as partner in the San Francisco office.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Digital Realty Trust on the acquisition of 761,000 sq ft of data centre facilities, located in and around London and known as the Sentrum Portfolio, for approximately $1.1 billion.
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Shearman & Sterling advised Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book managers and joint lead arrangers and Barclays Bank PLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers in connection with a $1.8 billion term loan financing for Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. related to its acquisition of Actavis Pharma Holding 4 ehf. and Actavis Inc.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling advised Legg Mason, Inc. as borrower under a $1 billion aggregate financing, including a $500 million five-year term loan and a $500 million five-year revolving credit facility agented by Citibank, N.A.
Tags: Shearman & Sterling LLP | New YorkShearman & Sterling represented adidas AG on its new €500 million revolving credit facility. The new facility was put in place as the existing €2 billion revolving credit facility expires this year.
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Jackson Walker L.L.P. recently assisted client QSpex Technologies, Inc. in securing approximately $20.5 million in Series D funding, which will enable the company to expand its production capacity and increase its sales and marketing staff to support a major U.S. product launch. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, QSpex uses proprietary technology to develop systems that enable vision care providers to efficiently produce a wide range of top-quality spectacle lenses with a variety of premium features.
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Cahill represented the underwriters in connection with the public offering by Choice Hotels International, Inc. of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.75% Senior Notes due 2022. Proceeds from the offering are expected to be used for payment of a dividend.
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National law firm BuckleySandler hired Andrew W. Schilling for a New York legal job, according to a press release.
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