Simpson Thacher is representing Getty Images, Inc. and its controlling shareholders, investment funds affiliated with Hellman & Friedman LLC, in connection with Getty Images’ pending acquisition by entities controlled by The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Getty Images management for $3.3 billion. Carlyle will acquire a controlling stake in Getty Images, while Getty Images Co-Founder and Chairman Mark Getty and the Getty family will roll substantially all of their ownership interests into the transaction.

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Perkins Coie has announced the recruitment of Randy A. Bridgeman to the firm’s corporate practice in Chicago.  Formerly the corporate practice head at K&L Gates, Mr. Bridgeman has gained significant private equity and finance experience throughout his career.

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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of a Seoul office in the Mirae Asset CENTER. The new office, which is the firm’s sixteenth location, opens following last month’s Korean Bar Association registration of the firm’s foreign legal consultant office in Seoul, the final regulatory step needed by the firm to open a Korean office. Sheppard Mullin is among the first three law firms in the United States and the European Union approved to open in Korea.

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that it served as legal adviser to Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, in its sale by Hellman & Friedman to a partnership comprised of global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and Getty Images management for $3.3 billion.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Randy A. Bridgeman has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Governance & Transactions Practice. He was most recently a Partner at K&L Gates LLP, where he was head of the Corporate group for the Chicago office. Bridgeman was also a partner at Chicago-based Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, prior to its merger with K&L Gates in 2009. Bridgeman is the 11th partner to join Perkins Coie’s Chicago office this year.

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP advised long-term client Coller Capital on the approximately £1.03 billion acquisition by a fund financed by Coller International Partners VI (CIP VI) of a portfolio of private equity-related investments, as well as the transfer of £220 million of undrawn commitments, from Lloyds Banking Group plc. This transaction is believed to be the largest unsyndicated secondaries deal ever completed. The O’Melveny London-based team was led by partner Solomon Wifa.

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