International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Allison R. Liff will join its New York office as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice group.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm, represented the Royal Bank of Canada as administrative agent and RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs Bank USA, and UBS Securities LLC, as Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers in connection with a $150,000,000 revolving facility loan for Dynegy Power, LLC, a subsidiary of Dynegy, Inc, a company that provides wholesale power, capacity and ancillary services to utilities, cooperatives, municipalities and other energy companies.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP bolsters again its United States Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) practice with the addition of Daniel Dufner as a partner in the Firm’s New York office. Dufner rejoins White & Case from Linklaters. He had previously been a partner at White & Case from 2004 to 2009.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy represented leading Colombian telecommunications company Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá S.A. E.S.P. (ETB) in its issuance of nearly $300 million in local-currency-denominated senior notes, due 2023.

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SRZ is pleased to announce that Barry A. Bohrer and Lisa A. Prager will join the firm as partners and Lara Covington as special counsel in the litigation practice. The group’s arrival from Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. brings further depth to SRZ’s 100-person litigation and enforcement practice.

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Zuckerman Spaeder LLP is pleased to announce that Mitra Hormozi, former chair of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity and former Chief of the Organized Crime Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, has joined the firm’s New York office. A former advisor to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Ms. Hormozi is a veteran trial attorney who brings years of government experience to her work on behalf of clients facing regulatory investigations, potential criminal prosecutions, internal investigations, and compliance matters. She has experience serving as a court-appointed monitor and special master, most recently overseeing the payment of damages to minority firefighter applicants. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York determined that New York City owed $128.7 million in back pay to minorities whose employment with the fire department had been either delayed or denied after they were required to take a test that was later found to be racially discriminatory. Ms. Hormozi is currently a commissioner on the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

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Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint bookrunners in connection with Banco Davivienda S.A.’s offering of US$500 million Senior Notes due 2018. Banco Davivienda S.A. is one of the largest financial institutions in Colombia and is a leading, integrated full service bank with the strongest consumer banking franchise in Colombia.

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Simpson Thacher represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and RBS Securities Inc. in an offering of $210 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021 by Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (“Gibraltar”). Gibraltar used the net proceeds from the notes offering to fund a cash tender offer for any and all of its outstanding $204 million 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015. The Firm also represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in its capacity as dealer manager in the concurrent tender offer and consent solicitation.

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On January 31, 2013, Scientific Games Corporation and WMS Industries Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Scientific Games will acquire WMS for US$26.00 in cash per common share or approximately US$1.5 billion.

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Cravath represented the initial purchasers, led by Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan Securities and RBS, in connection with the €400 million 144A/Reg.

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