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AT&T to buy DirecTV
Legal advisors to DirecTV: AT&T to buy DirecTV
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Sullivan & Cromwell have landed the headline roles on the $49bn (£29bn) merger between telecommunications giant AT&T and pay-TV company DirecTV.
The stock and cash deal - one of the largest M&A transactions so far this year - is expected to close in mid-2015, and is the latest in a series of blockbuster telecommunications deals providing work for US firms.
AT&T has instructed go-to corporate adviser Joseph Frumkin for the deal, with Sullivan's New York-based M&A managing partner working alongside Los Angeles corporate partner Eric Krautheimer.
The other Sullivan partners on the deal include Andrew Mason (tax) and executive compensation and benefits specialist Matthew Friestedt. Special counsel Spencer Simon also advised on intellectual property matters.
Financial advisor to AT&T:
Frumkin and a number of partners in the team have previously advised the company on mega-deals including AT&T's $86bn (£51bn) stock-for- stock acquisition of BellSouth, its $1.2bn (£713m) cash purchase of Leap Wireless, and its private $2.4bn (£1.4bn) acquisition of Alltel wireless properties from Verizon.
Legal advisor to AT&T:
Arnold & Porter is also providing regulatory and competition advice to AT&T in the US and Latin America. Washington DC partner Richard Rosen and London partner Susan Hinchliffe are leading a team that includes Maureen Jeffreys and Wilson Mudge in DC and London-based Mike Ryan. AT&T has instructed a string of other firms for the deal, including Crowell & Moring, Sidley Austin Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel, Reuters has reported.
Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, DIRECTV’s long-time communications counsel in Washington, DC, provided regulatory advice to DIRECTV, as it has in major transactions involving the company in the past. Bill Wiltshire and Mike Nilsson led the team, along with Kristine Devine and Adrienne Fowler. LM
This announcement appears as a matter of record only Dorian LPG IPO Transaction Joint bookrunners: Legal advisor to Dorian LPG: Dorian LPG IPO Transaction
Dorian LPG Ltd. ("Dorian LPG" or the "Company") has announced the pricing of its public offering of 7,105,263 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at $19.00 per share. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,065,789 common shares to cover over-allotments, if any. The Company intends to use all of the net proceeds from the offering to partly finance the construction of 19 Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) being built in two Korean shipyards.
The Company's common shares are expected to commence trading on May 8, 2014 on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "LPG." The offering is expected to close on May 13, 2014, subject to customary conditions.
Auditor:
Concurrently with the initial public offering, the Company plans to offer to exchange all of the unregistered common shares that it previously issued in its prior equity private placements, other than the common shares owned by affiliates of the Company, for common shares that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which the Company refers to as the Exchange Offer. The Company has filed a registration statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-194598) to register the common shares to be offered by the Company in the Exchange Offer. The Company expects such registration statement to become effective on May 8, 2014.
Legal advisor to the bookrunners:
PR Consultant: expressions identify forward-looking statements. LM
JULY 2014
This announcement appears as a matter of record only
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