Federal District Court Judge Barbara S. Jones to Join Zuckerman Spaeder LLP’s New York Office

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP is pleased to announce that the Hon. Barbara S. Jones, a former judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is joining the firm as a partner in its New York office. Judge Jones brings to Zuckerman Spaeder 17 years of experience on the bench and more than two decades as a federal prosecutor. She will focus her practice on internal investigations, corporate compliance issues, and monitorships, as well as assisting individual and institutional clients to solve their legal problems.

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McDermott Adds Group to Top-Rated State & Local Tax Team

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named Stephen P. Kranz as a partner in the Firm’s State and Local Tax (SALT) Practice Group. Mr. Kranz, who will be joined by a team of lawyers, including newly named McDermott Counsel Diann Smith, will be based in the Firm’s new, 229,112 square-foot Washington, D.C. office building on Capitol Hill, blocks from the United States Capitol and Tax Court.

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Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown to join Jones Day in Columbus

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown will join as a partner in the Firm’s Columbus Office where she will be part of Jones Day’s Business and Tort Litigation (USA) Practice. She served on the Court from January 2011 through December of 2012 after a long and distinguished judicial and public service career.

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Paul Hastings Advises salesforce.com in San Francisco Lease at One Rincon

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in leasing an approximately 230,000-square-foot office space at One Rincon in San Francisco. This deal immediately follows salesforce.com’s announcement that they will lease the entirety of a 450,000-square-foot highrise planned for 350 Mission Street and expand their presence in 50 Fremont by another 100,000 square feet.

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Bracewell Represents Flagstar Bancorp. in Sale of Large Portion of Northeast Commercial Loan Portfolio

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Flagstar Bank, in its announced sale of a substantial portion of its Northeast-based commercial loan portfolio. Flagstar has entered into a Transaction Purchase and Sale Agreement under which a wholly-owned subsidiary of CIT Bank, the U.S. commercial bank subsidiary of CIT Group Inc., will acquire this portion of the portfolio. The transaction is effective December 31, 2012.

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FaegreBD Advises Hormel Foods on Acquisition of Skippy® Peanut Butter Line

George D. Martin and Ryan R. Miske, partners in the M&A practice at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, are principal attorneys serving as counsel to Hormel Foods Corporation in its acquisition of the Skippy® peanut butter business, including the related manufacturing facilities in Little Rock, Ark., and Weifang, China, from Unilever United States Inc. for approximately $700 million.

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