Simpson Thacher is representing Waste Management, Inc. in connection with its agreement under which a subsidiary of Waste Management will acquire all outstanding shares of Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. for $33.15 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of $4.9 billion. This acquisition will grow Waste Management’s footprint and allow Waste Management to […]
Kirkland Represents Butterfly on the Acquisition of Bolthouse Farms From Campbell Soup Company for $510 Million. Kirkland & Ellis advised Butterfly Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector, on its definitive agreement to acquire Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) for $510 million in cash, subject to customary purchase […]
Mary Joan Hoene (Picture), Counsel in Carter Ledyard’s Corporate and Securities departments, was recently re-elected to the Board of Directors of ASA Gold and Precious Metals Limited, a precious metals and mining fund registered with the SEC. Mary Joan serves as Chair of the Board. ASA Gold and Precious Metals Ltd is a diversified closed-end […]
Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP represented Pareteum Corporation (Nasdaq: TEUM), a cloud software platform, as it accepted for exchange shares of iPass, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAS), a provider of global mobile connectivity. The iPass shares were all validly tendered in the previously-announced tender offer by a wholly-owned Pareteum subsidiary to acquire all of iPass’ outstanding shares for […]
Kirkland & Ellis represented BlackSand Capital, LLC, a leading real-estate private equity firm in Hawaii, in raising BlackSand Capital Opportunity Fund II, with capital commitments of $326.54 million. Based on strong demand from investors, BlackSand significantly exceeded its original target of $250 million. BlackSand Capital LLC is a real estate private equity firm. The Company […]
Foley Hoag won a complete victory for client Lovepop, Inc. in a copyright infringement suit in the District of Massachusetts, with a jury awarding nearly $500,000 in damages for infringement of Lovepop’s original works. Lovepop creates and sells 3D pop-up greeting cards designed and engineered in style known as sliceform kirigami, which combines kirigami, the […]
Kirkland & Ellis advised Maverick Natural Resources, LLC on its acquisition of producing properties in the Overton field in East Texas. The acquisition, Maverick’s first, includes approximately 11,000 net acres and 2,700 net boepd (28 percent liquids). Maverick currently operates the field and has purchased the remaining 50 percent non-operated working interest. Maverick Natural Resources, […]
Carter Ledyard successfully represented Nusli Wadia on the case On March 19, 2019, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously affirmed the granting of a motion to dismiss in favor of firm client, Nusli Wadia, a Mumbai, India based businessman and the administrator of the Indian estate of decedent Edulji Framoz Dinshaw. […]
Davis Polk secured a victory for the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in an ongoing highly publicized dispute between the three largest U.S. stock-exchange groups and the Securities and Exchange Commission, relating to a recently-adopted final rule known as the Transaction Fee Pilot (“TFP”). Davis Polk petitioned the SEC on behalf of NYSE to delay […]
Foley Hoag successfully represented the Republic of Mauritius in the case International Court of Justice (ICJ), which agreed with Mauritius by a 13-1 vote that the Chagos Archipelago, severed from Mauritius and annexed by the United Kingdom in 1965, forms an integral part of Mauritius’ territory, and that the UK must return it to Mauritius […]
Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Orange Lake Resorts—home to the Holiday Inn Club Vacations® brand—in connection with a new 5-year, $500 million revolving credit facility. Established by Holiday Inn® founder Kemmons Wilson, Orange Lake Resorts operates 28 resort properties and 7,600 villas in the United States. SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith […]
Husch Blackwell secured a victory before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on behalf of CityDeck Landing, LLC CityDeck was engaged in private arbitration with a contractor and related subcontractors concerning a dispute over the construction of an apartment building in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With the arbitration pending, a subcontractor’s insurer filed a separate action in state […]
