Building on the momentum created by several recent lateral hires, Cooley LLP announced today that leading Intellectual Property lawyers Walter Hanchuk and John Kheit have joined the firm as partners in its New York office. Walter and John were partners at Chadbourne & Parke LLP in New York, where Hanchuk was chair of Chadbourne’s IP practice and Kheit led the firm’s Mobile Technology practice. Hanchuk joins Cooley’s national IP group as chair of the firm’s New York IP practice and will be driving the strategic growth of the firm’s IP practice in New York.

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Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Edwin M. Larkin, a highly accomplished commercial litigator and a leading authority on electronic discovery, is a new partner in the Litigation Department. Larkin will base his practice in the firm’s New York City office.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and UBS Securities LLC in connection with the initial public offering of Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Total Income Fund (the “Fund”). The offering raised approximately $276 million, assuming full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

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The Firm represented TransUnion Holding Company, Inc. (the “Company”) in connection with a 144A/Regulation S offering of $400 million 8.125%/8.875% Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2018. The net proceeds of the offering were used to pay a one-time dividend to the Company’s shareholders. The Firm also represented the Company in the concurrent consent solicitation to amend the indenture governing the Company’s existing notes to permit the dividend.

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