Paul Hastings Team Assists Korean Air Lines with Major Development Project

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm, recently helped Korean Air Lines reach important milestones for its Wilshire Grand redevelopment project in downtown Los Angeles. Korean Air Lines has now begun work on its approximately $950 million mixed use project, located at one of the prime locations in the financial district. Korean Air Lines recently began demolishing the existing obsolete hotel and will start vertical construction later this year. The project, which is currently the largest private construction project in Los Angeles, will consist of a 900 room four plus star hotel with ballrooms and convention facilities, approximately 380,000 square feet of office space and 200,000 square feet of restaurants, retail and other amenities in a single 72 story tower with attached podium building. Construction of the project will continue through 2016 and the project opening is scheduled for January 2017.

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Paul Hastings Represents Royal Bank of Canada in $150 Million Loan to Dynegy

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm, represented the Royal Bank of Canada as administrative agent and RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs Bank USA, and UBS Securities LLC, as Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers in connection with a $150,000,000 revolving facility loan for Dynegy Power, LLC, a subsidiary of Dynegy, Inc, a company that provides wholesale power, capacity and ancillary services to utilities, cooperatives, municipalities and other energy companies.

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Ogletree Deakins Bolsters Immigration Practice, Adds Shareholder Jacquelyn Maroney

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Jacquelyn (Jacky) Maroney as a shareholder in its Austin office. Maroney joins Ogletree Deakins from Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., where she led the immigration practice in the firm’s Austin office.

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Leading Projects Lawyer, John Cooper, Joins Jones Day in Sydney

The global law firm Jones Day announced today that John Cooper, one of Australia’s leading projects lawyers, has joined the Firm in Sydney as a partner in the Global Disputes Practice. Mr. Cooper spent 26 years at Allens and its predecessor firms, where he rose to senior partner in its Projects Practice Group in Sydney.

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MMM Adds Second Tax Partner in Two Weeks

Gerald V. Thomas II is the newest addition to the expanding Tax Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP. Thomas joined the firm as a Partner in the Atlanta office, where he works in the Tax, Corporate, Funds & Alternative Investments, M&A and Real Estate Capital Markets Practices. He is the second Tax partner added in two weeks; MMM added another partner, Anthony Boggs, last month.

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