Lennar Corporation: Represented various parties in multiple offerings by this Florida-based builder of affordable, move-up and retirement homes in 17 states, including:

• Lennar as issuer in its offering of $650 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.50% Senior Notes due 2024.
• Lennar as issuer in its offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.125% Senior Notes due 2022.
• Lennar as issuer in its offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2021.
• Lennar as issuer in its offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.875% Senior Notes due 2023.
• J.P. Morgan as the sole underwriter in Lennar’s follow-on public offering of $250 million of senior notes.
• the underwriters led by joint book-running Managers Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch, Mizuho Securities USA Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. in Lennar’s $500 million offering of senior notes.
• the sole book-running manager Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in Lennar’s $100 million offering of senior notes.
• the underwriters led by joint book-running Managers Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp. and UBS Securities LLC in Lennar’s $400 million offering of senior notes.
• the initial purchasers, led by Citigroup Global Markets, Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan Securities, in Lennar’s $450 million 144A offering of senior notes.

WCI Communities, Inc.: Represented Monarch Alternative Capital LP and Stonehill Capital Management LLC in an underwritten secondary offering of shares of WCI Communities, Inc.

Shaw Group, Inc.: Conducted an internal investigation on behalf of the audit committee of Shaw, a Fortune 500 provider of piping systems, engineering procurement and construction services.

Suitt Construction v. Bank of Nova Scotia: Represented Bank of Nova Scotia in a lien priority dispute with Suitt, a national leader in design-build and a founding member of the Design-Build Institute of America.

Alleghany Capital Corporation/W&W|AFCO Steel: Represented Alleghany Capital Corporation in its acquisition of a majority stake in W&W|AFCO Steel, one of the largest structural steel fabrication and erection companies in North America.

dormakaba Group/Stanley Black & Decker: Represented dormakaba Group, as U.S. counsel, in its $725 million acquisition of Stanley Black & Decker’s Mechanical Security businesses.

Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc.: Represented Kiewit, one of the largest and most respected heavy construction and mining organizations in North America, in multiple transactions, including its sale of stock and assets comprising parts of the Continental Can Company.

United Subcontractors, Inc./Trilantic North America:  Represented United Subcontractors, Inc. (USI) in an equity investment and recapitalization in partnership with Trilantic North America.

French A63 Toll Road: Advised the lenders in the refinancing of the French A63 toll road (between Gironde and Landes), which involved a €860 million credit facility with a 25-year maturity made available to Concessionaire Atlandes.

Mechanically Locking Floor Panels Manufacturer: Successfully defended a major European manufacturer and two of its licensees in the ITC and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit against claims for infringing three patents relating to methods and apparatuses for mechanically locking floor panels. The ITC properly construed the patent claims as not covering the clients’ products.

Pike Corporation/Court Square Capital Partners: Represented BofA Merrill Lynch as financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pike Corporation, one of the nation's largest specialty construction and engineering firms serving the electric power industry, in the sale of the company to Court Square Capital Partners in partnership with J. Eric Pike, Pike’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.