Skadden is representing Doughty Hanson & Co. in its $1.4 billion sale of Vue Entertainment Ltd., an operator of movie theaters, to Alberta Investment Management Corporation and OMERS Private Equity, announced on June 10.
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Polsinelli welcomes Kevin D. Gunn, the former Chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission, to the firm’s Energy Practice as shareholder. Gunn will practice in the firm’s St. Louis office. As Chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission, he oversaw the regulation of all investor–owned utilities in the state, ensuring ratepayers received safe, adequate and reliable utility service at reasonable rates. In addition to his energy experience, Gunn brings public policy acumen to Polsinelli having served as chief of staff to Representative Richard Gephardt from January 2003 until the congressman’s retirement in 2005.
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Craig will join M&A partners Neil Pathak and Ben Macdonald in Gilbert + Tobin’s Melbourne office, further enhancing the M&A and corporate advisory practice and expanding the firm’s Melbourne presence.
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The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Robert “Bob” James Kline has joined the firm’s Tampa office as a partner in the Trusts & Estates Practice Group.
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Paul, Weiss client The Carlyle Group, together with other investors, successfully took private Focus Media for $3.7 billion in the largest-ever going-private deal by a Chinese company. The Carlyle Group invested in Focus Media, China’s largest lifestyle-targeted interactive digital media network, through its Asia Partners III fund alongside FountainVest, CITIC Capital, China Everbright, Nanchun Jiang and Fosun International Limited.
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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Eric Su as a shareholder in its New York City office. Su joins Ogletree Deakins from Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment, Litigation and Construction practice groups. Su is the 18th shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins in 2013 and the third shareholder to join the firm’s New York City office. The firm welcomed Ronald Kreismann in May, and Frank Birchfield joined in March.
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Simpson Thacher recently represented The Carlyle Group in connection with a $296 million secondary offering of common units by California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”).
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