Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Jerry Howe has joined the Firm as a partner in the Government Contracts and Aerospace & Defense Practices, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Howe will provide regulatory/industry counsel on M&A and private equity transactions in the aerospace & defense industry as well as government contracts litigation, investigations and bid protests. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the aerospace, defense and intelligence sectors.

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RatnerPrestia is proud to announce that Keith E. George has joined its Washington, D.C. office as Shareholder, where he will focus his practice on patent matters, including patent prosecution, client counseling, and due diligence analysis on issues of patentability, validity, and infringement. Mr. George has over 34 years of patent prosecution experience and his background covers a diversity of high technology areas, including wireless and landline digital networks, free-space and fiber based optical communications, video encoding and transport protocols, and optical electrical transducers, to name a few.

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Morgan Lewis announced today that Mathew Kidwell, an energy transactions attorney with more than 18 years of experience in oil and gas mergers and acquisitions project development and finance, has joined the firm’s Business and Finance Practice, resident in London. His arrival continues the growth of the firm’s Energy Transactions Practice in the UK and the firm’s broader international expansion in Europe and Asia.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP represented Barnes Group Inc. (NYSE:B), an international aerospace and industrial manufacturing and service provider, in connection with a definitive agreement providing for the sale of the Barnes Distribution North America business (“BDNA”) to MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (“MSC”) for $550 million, subject to certain adjustments.

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