Jones Day is acting as Dutch corporate and tax counsel to Verizon Communications, Inc. in the $130 billion acquisition for the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone, including the sale of Verizon's 23.1 percent minority stake in Vodafone Omnitel N.V. to Vodafone for $3.5 billion.

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Practice(s): M&A, Tax
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Corporate legal experts at Irwin Mitchell have advised multi-channel business document specialists, Prolog Print Media, on its acquisition of Rugby-based Datagraphic Limited.
 
Chesterfield-based Prolog Print Media specialises in secure data-driven business communications, from epayslips to total reward statements, document printing and employee communications of all kinds.
 

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has advised Poland’s leading private television broadcaster, TVN, in connection with an offering of €430m high yield notes to finance the redemption of outstanding high yield notes. Weil acted as US and Polish counsel to TVN.

On September 16, 2013, WilmerHale attorneys obtained a significant victory for OpenMarket Inc., a subsidiary of the firm's client Amdocs Inc., when Judge Allison Nathan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted OpenMarket's motion to stay pending arbitration. OpenMarket, along with 16 other parties, was sued by a group of putative class action plaintiffs for alleged violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Simmons & Simmons has advised Telefónica UK on its appointment as the Communications Services Provider for the Central and South regions under the Smart Meter Implementation Programme. The objective of the Programme is to install smart meters in every home and premises in Great Britain by 1 January 2021 to enable people to manage their energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions.

Osborne Clarke has advised leading cloud contact centre vendor NewVoiceMedia on a US$35m fundraising. The series 'C' funding from new investor Bessemer Venture Partners – together with existing investors Eden Ventures, Highland Capital and Notion Capital – will be used to fund NewVoiceMedia’s international expansion.

The Osborne Clarke team advising NewVoiceMedia was led by Ray Berg, Head of Business Transactions and Thomas Colmer, Associate Director.

Ray Berg, Osborne Clarke’s Head of Business Transactions, said:

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised Verizon Communications Inc. in connection with its $49 billion bond offering, the largest-ever corporate bond issue. The deal will help finance Verizon’s acquisition of Vodafone's 45 percent interest in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion. The offering consisted of a mix of 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, 10-year, 20-year and 30-year maturities with fixed or floating interest rates.

The Firm is representing SAIC, Inc. (“SAIC”) in connection with the separation of its technical, engineering and enterprise information technology services business.  On September 9, 2013, the Board of Directors of SAIC approved the distribution to its stockholders of all the outstanding shares of SAIC Gemini, Inc., which will hold the spun-off business and be renamed Science Applications International Corporation (“Science Applications”) in connection with the completion of the separation.

The Firm represented Airvana Network Solutions Inc. (ANS) in its sale to Ericsson Inc. (Ericsson), a U.S. subsidiary of Ericsson A.B., a Swedish multinational technology company.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

ANS provides innovative, scalable radio access network (RAN) infrastructure that enables mobile operators to meet the growing demand for high-performance mobile data services and 3G-to-4G coexistence.  ANS’s mobile broadband RAN solution is fully integrated into Ericsson’s CDMA Access product line.

Shearman & Sterling is advising Western Digital Corp. in the acquisition by its subsidiary, HGST, of Virident Systems, Inc. in a transaction valued at $685 million. Closing of the acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth calendar quarter of 2013.