Davis Polk advised the dealers in connection with a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Banco del Estado de Chile of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.668% senior notes due 2021 under Banco Estado’s medium-term notes program.

Banco Estado is the fourth-largest financial institution in Chile in terms of aggregate loans, the largest in terms of number of customers and geographic coverage (in terms of number of Chilean cities with a branch) and the market leader in Chile in residential mortgages (in terms of the number of loans made).

Willkie represents Brookfield in the transaction, expected to close in the third quarter of 2018.

On January 4, Brookfield Business Partners L.P. (NYSE:BBU) (TSX:BBU.UN) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Westinghouse Electric Company, a leading global provider of infrastructure services to the power generation industry, currently owned by Toshiba Corp.

Kirkland & Ellis has hired Meng Ding as a corporate and securities partner in Hong Kong from Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was an associate.

Ding focuses his practice on corporate and securities matters, including representation of issuers and underwriters on a wide range of equity and debt capital markets transactions in Asia and the United States. He also advises on exchange reporting, corporate governance and other compliance matters.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that Paul Helms, former senior counsel at the SEC Enforcement Division, has joined the Firm as a partner in the Chicago office. Helms will represent corporations, financial institutions, investment firms, directors, officers and other individuals in internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and securities litigation, strengthening McDermott’s litigation team in areas involving increasingly significant and complex challenges for clients.

Michael Fox and Robert Kum have joined Duane Morris LLP’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, respectively, as partners in the firm’s Trial Practice Group. Fox and Kum enhance the firm’s litigation capabilities in California and throughout the U.S. Prior to joining Duane Morris, both were partners at Sedgwick LLP. In November 2017, Duane Morris LLP welcomed Sedgwick’s 10-attorney Employment Practice Group to its San Francisco office.

The London office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added a leading energy disputes team consisting of partners Jeremy Farr, Charles Lockwood, and Clare Kempkens. They join K&L Gates from Ince & Co, where their combined experience totaled almost 70 years and where Farr served as the global head of the firm’s energy practice.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Michael Hickey has joined the Firm as a partner. He is part of Weil’s Capital Markets practice and is based in the Firm’s New York office.

We are thrilled that Michael is joining the Firm, said Weil Executive Partner Barry Wolf. His substantial leveraged finance capabilities will further strengthen our leading Capital Markets practice, which advises clients globally on all facets of acquisition financing transactions.

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that Ruth Wimer, Esq, CPA, has joined the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) Practice as a partner in Washington, D.C. Ruth was previously with McDermott Will & Emery and reunites with her former colleagues, the top-ranked twelve-partner EBEC team that joined Winston from McDermott earlier this year.

Linklaters is pleased to announce the addition of market leading bankruptcy lawyer, Amy Edgy, who will be joining the firm’s U.S. Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) practice as partner. She will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and joins from Jones Day.

Dentons Boekel has strengthened its Energy practice with the recruitment of partner Jan Jakob Peelen.

Dentons Boekel has strengthened its Energy practice with the recruitment of partner Jan Jakob Peelen. He joined the Amsterdam office from Norton Rose Fulbright on January 1, 2018.