The Palo Alto office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Linda Zhou as a partner in the emerging growth and venture capital practice. Zhou joins K&L Gates from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.
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The Firm recently represented Pinnacle Foods Inc. (“Pinnacle Foods”), a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group, L.P., in connection with its initial public offering of common stock. The offering of 33,350,000 shares of common stock, which included the underwriters’ option to purchase 4,350,000 additional shares, raised approximately $667 million in gross proceeds. The shares of Pinnacle Foods are now listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “PF.”
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm that invests in lower middle-market specialty industrial and health care companies, which today announced it completed fundraising for Arsenal Capital Fund III, L.P. The fund was oversubscribed with $875 million of committed capital and exceeded its original target of $750 million. Fund III’s investor base is international in scope, with institutional investors from the United States, Europe and Asia, and consists primarily of endowments and foundations, public and corporate pension plans, diversified financial institutions and family offices.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Marc Fagel will join the San Francisco office as a partner. Most recently the Director of the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fagel will join the firm’s Securities Enforcement practice.
Tags: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | San FranciscoGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Reed Brodsky has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Brodsky joined the firm from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Criminal Division, where he was a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit for the last six years.
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Watson, Farley & Williams LLP (WFW), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has acted for Nordea Bank Norge ASA on a US$355m loan facility to Exmar LPG BVBA, a joint venture between Exmar and Teekay.
Tags: Watson Farley & Williams LLP | Hong KongDickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce that Atulya R. Agarwal has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice as partner, effective April 1, in its Palo Alto, California office. He joins the firm from Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he was a senior vice president and served as Elan’s chief intellectual property officer. Dr. Agarwal has more than two decades of life-sciences experience, including 10-plus years as in-house IP counsel to biopharmaceutical companies. His arrival strengthens the firm’s biotechnology patent prosecution, strategy, and licensing practices in Palo Alto, and his practice will leverage his extensive industry and in-house experience to assist companies in developing IP strategies to maximize the value of their portfolios by protecting assets and products though patent counseling, prosecution, due diligence, transactions, and litigation.
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Saul Ewing LLP announced today that Peter Lauro and Melissa Hunter-Ensor, Ph.D. have joined the firm as partners in the Business and Finance, Life Sciences and Intellectual Property and Technology practices. They will be resident in the Boston, Mass. office.
Tags: Saul Ewing LLPBaker & McKenzie’s member firm in Indonesia, Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners (“HHP”), has represented Medco Power on a significant geothermal project in Indonesia.
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome William F. “Frank” Birchfield as a shareholder in its New York City office. Birchfield joins Ogletree Deakins after practicing as a partner in the employment group at the employment defense firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. With the addition of Birchfield, Ogletree Deakins continues the rapid growth across its network of offices. Since January, the firm has increased its shareholder ranks in its Austin, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, St. Louis, and Washington offices.
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