Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. is pleased to announce that Charles H. Kaplan has joined the Firm as a Member of the Employment and Labor Practice Group in the Firm’s New York office.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that real estate lawyer Steven Klein has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner.  Klein was previously a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

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Shearman & Sterling advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Bank PLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunning managers in connection with a $5 billion term loan related to Amgen Inc.’s $10.5 billion purchase of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. Concurrently, the firm also represented Bank of America, N.A. in connection with a $3.1 billion sale and repurchase agreement financing transaction related to the acquisition.

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Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Virginia Murphy has joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice in its New York office as counsel. Ms. Murphy hails from a corporate background that includes providing legal and policy direction to global companies and other organizations on compliance and regulatory issues in the United States and Europe.

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The Firm recently represented Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody) in a new senior secured credit facility led by Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC and RBS Securities Inc.  The new facility includes a $1.65 billion revolver and a $1.2 billion term loan and replaced Peabody’s existing credit facilities.

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The Firm represented Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, RBS Securities Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and other underwriters in connection with a $1.75 billion offering of debt securities by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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The Firm represented Barclays, BMO Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, CIBC, RBC Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, HSBC Securities, J.P. Morgan and TD Securities as initial purchasers in connection with a 144A/Regulation S offering by MEG Energy Corp. (“MEG”) of $800 million of 7.0% Senior Notes due 2024.  MEG intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including funding its 2014 capital program.

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Gibbons P.C. is pleased to announce that John R. Hewitt has joined the firm as a Director in the Business & Commercial Litigation Department in the firm’s New York office.

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Cravath represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo Securities, in connection with the US$874 million initial public offering of class A common stock of Premier, Inc., a national healthcare alliance. The shares were listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The transaction closed on October 1, 2013.

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Jenner & Block LLP announced that Joseph L. Noga has joined the firm as a partner in the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice in its New York office.  Mr. Noga was most recently the deputy chief of litigation for GE Capital, the financial services unit of General Electric (GE), a role he assumed after heading litigation and investigations for several GE business units.

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