Foley announced today that Christopher J. Donovan has joined the firm’s Health Care Industry Team and Business Law Department as a partner in the Boston office. He will also be a member of the Life Sciences and Senior Living Industry Teams. Prior to joining Foley, Donovan was a partner with McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where he practiced in the Corporate and Health Practice Groups for nearly 30 years and co-led the firm’s Post-Acute and Outpatient Services Strategy Affinity Group.

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Having completed the merger of Novak Druce + Quigg LLP and Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP—which officially formed the IP “super boutique” Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP on Jan. 1—the firm quickly jumped into high gear, announcing that seven attorneys from Boston-based Rissman Hendricks Oliverio (four partners and three of counsel) joined on Dec. 31. This expansion reinforces the super boutique’s status as the 7th largest IP firm in the country with more than 140 attorneys, agents and technical advisors across eight offices.

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Kirkland advises Avis Budget Group, Inc., in its agreement to acquire Zipcar, Inc., the world’s leading car sharing network, for $12.25 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $500 million.

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Kirkland represents Duff & Phelps Corporation, a leading independent financial advisory and investment banking firm, in its definitive merger agreement to be acquired by a consortium comprising controlled affiliates of or funds managed by The Carlyle Group, Stone Point Capital LLC, Pictet & Cie and Edmond de Rothschild Group for $15.55 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $665 million.

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