http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Barclays Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132593 Investment firm TPG Capital LP and Canada-based pension manager CPP Investment Board will acquire IMS Health Inc., a provider of market intelligence to the health care and pharmaceutical industries, in a leveraged buyout deal valued at $5.2 billion. http://www.law360.com/articles/132593 http://www.law360.com/articles/132326 Wachovia Corp. and the underwriters and auditor of 30 of the company's public offerings have denounced a consolidated class action alleging they downplayed Wachovia’s parlous subprime exposure when selling some $35 billion bond class securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/132326 http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 Private equity firm TPG Capital has purchased a majority stake in natural gas services company Valerus Compression Services LLP for $500 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 http://www.law360.com/articles/131957 On the heels of announcing plans to acquire part of the reinsurance business of an ING Groep NV subsidiary, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. said Tuesday that it would offer public senior notes worth $300 million in order to raise capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/131957 http://www.law360.com/articles/131737 Huntsman Corp. has inched closer to closing its proposed $415 million acquisition of bankrupt Tronox Inc.'s assets following the expiration of the U.S. antitrust waiting period on the deal, the stalking horse bidder said Monday amid continuing objections to the deal in Tronox's Chapter 11 proceedings. http://www.law360.com/articles/131737 http://www.law360.com/articles/131365 The collapse of the nation’s housing market hasn’t done much good for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which is asking a federal bankruptcy court to sign off on a bid to restructure the loan terms on its faltering real estate portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/131365 http://www.law360.com/articles/131245 Cott Beverages Inc. is planning a private offering of $200 million in senior notes due in 2017 to fund a tender offer of its senior subordinated notes due in 2011. http://www.law360.com/articles/131245 http://www.law360.com/articles/130703 A group of creditors has asked the judge overseeing Tronox Inc.'s bankruptcy proceedings to force the chemical company to accept an alternative debtor-in-possession financing plan they say would delay sale proceedings and potentially provide more return for creditors. http://www.law360.com/articles/130703 http://www.law360.com/articles/128635 Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has already paid out $402.9 million in fees and expense reimbursements to attorneys, financial advisers and other consultants, a newly filed report shows. http://www.law360.com/articles/128635 http://www.law360.com/articles/128187 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is asking a court to order payment processing company First Data Corp. to produce information about a terminated interest rate swap agreement between the two companies, under which Lehman claims it is owed more than the $14 million First Data has paid. http://www.law360.com/articles/128187 http://www.law360.com/articles/125091 Station Casinos Inc. has objected to a proposed probe by its unsecured creditors into the transactions that transformed the now-bankrupt casino operator from a public to a private entity, contending that it already has spent $3 million investigating the going-private deals. http://www.law360.com/articles/125091 http://www.law360.com/articles/124759 Abbott Laboratories plans to buy the pharmaceutical business of Belgium's Solvay Group for $6.6 billion in cash in a move to expand its presence in key emerging markets and diversify its drug portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/124759 http://www.law360.com/articles/124736 General Electric Capital Corp. has asked for a $1.35 million fee to be carved out for it from bankrupt plastic film and packaging manufacturer Pliant Corp. should the bankruptcy court approve Pliant's plan to switch its exit financier of choice from GE to Barclays Capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/124736 http://www.law360.com/articles/124539 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., its unsecured creditors and the trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation of Lehman's broker-dealer subsidiary have asked a court to unseal findings of their investigation of Barclays PLC's acquisition of the subsidiary. http://www.law360.com/articles/124539 http://www.law360.com/articles/124249 Mortgage giant Freddie Mac plans to sell $1 billion in securities through the reopening of 2.125 percent three-year reference notes, the government-sponsored enterprise announced Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/124249 http://www.law360.com/articles/124069 Global information company Thomson Reuters Corp. has announced it is offering $500 million of notes due 2019, aiming to use the offering's proceeds and available cash to redeem approximately $600 million in debt securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/124069 http://www.law360.com/articles/123841 Global information company Thomson Reuters Corp. said Tuesday it planned to redeem $600 million of outstanding debt securities, a move it said would be financed by issuing new debt securities or from cash balances. http://www.law360.com/articles/123841 http://www.law360.com/articles/123743 Two former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. assistant vice presidents have filed a putative class action adversary complaint in bankruptcy court alleging the investment giant improperly suspended severance pay after it sought Chapter 11 protection. http://www.law360.com/articles/123743 http://www.law360.com/articles/123784 Education Management Corp. is going public to help pay off its debt, saying it will sell 20 million shares of its common stock in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market that is expected to draw more than $353 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/123784 http://www.law360.com/articles/122960 Bemis Co. Inc. said Thursday that it had received a request for additional information from the U.S. Department of Justice related to an antitrust review of the Wisconsin-based packaging giant's proposed acquisition of Alcan Packaging Food Americas from Rio Tinto PLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/122960