Rebecca will head the Firm’s International Financial Services Regulation group, which will focus on counseling broker-dealers, investment advisers, fund managers, banks and wealth managers on  international regulatory, transactional, and operational matters.  Rebecca has significant experience advising clients in developing international and cross-border operations — from accepting their first foreign investors to establishing foreign subsidiaries and representative offices. She also counsels clients on domestic SEC and FINRA regulatory issues.

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Swedish-based industrial group Atlas Copco AB agreed to acquire Edwards Group Limited, a U.K-based global supplier of vacuum and abatement solutions for the chemical and semiconductor industries, in a $1.6 billion deal. The purchase will be Atlas Copco’s biggest in 14 years.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Ken Boehner has joined the Firm’s Atlanta Office as a partner in the M&A Practice.

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David W. Gee, a lawyer with over two decades of experience advising clinical and molecular diagnostic laboratories across the nation, has joined the health care practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the Seattle office.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing online payments services firm Skrill Group in the U.S. regulatory aspects of its acquisition by private equity group CVC Capital Partners for € 600 million (approximately $800 million).

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