Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that five partners, formerly with Dewey & LeBoeuf, will join the firm in its New York, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut offices, effective immediately. The group includes John G. Klauberg, Dewey’s former co-head of the Utilities, Power and Pipelines Global Industry Sector Group, as well as Catherine P. McCarthy, former Dewey co-head of the Energy Regulatory Department. It is anticipated that they also will be joined by a number of associates.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of highly regarded senior restructuring lawyer Timothy W. Walsh as international head of its Restructuring & Insolvency practice. The move is part of the Firm’s strategic initiative to significantly expand its worldwide restructuring and bankruptcy capabilities.

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Shearman & Sterling has increased its capabilities in the capital markets and leveraged finance practice areas with the addition of partnerJonathan DeSantis in New York.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that David M. Stewart has joined the firm in New York as a partner in the Real Estate practice. Previously, he was a partner with Latham & Watkins in New York.

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Davis Polk advised MSCI Inc. in connection with the amendment and restatement of its credit agreement and the refinancing of its existing credit facilities with $880 million of senior secured term loans and a $100 million revolving credit facility. The proceeds of the new term facility, together with cash on hand, were used to prepay $1.08 billion of term loans outstanding under MSCI’s existing facilities. The obligations under the new credit facilities are guaranteed by all of its domestic subsidiaries and secured by substantially all of the assets of the guarantors.

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