Paul Hastings Represents RBC in Milk Specialties Company $315 Million Refinancing

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Royal Bank of Canada and BNP Paribas as lead arrangers and Royal Bank of Canada as administrative agent in connection with new senior secured first lien credit facilities, consisting of a $250 million term loan facility, a $30 million delayed draw term loan facility and a $35 million revolving credit facility, the proceeds of which were used, among other things, to refinance the existing first lien and second lien credit facilities of Milk Specialties Company.

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Choate Adds Leading Private Client Practice to its Growing Wealth Management Group

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Choate today announced that all of the partners in the Private Client Practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP will move to Choate to join the firm’s industry-leading Wealth Management Group.  It is anticipated that the partners will be accompanied by associates and other staff, and that WilmerHale’s entire Private Client Practice will move to Choate.  The WilmerHale team that is joining Choate includes partners Jennifer C. Snyder, Nan Giner, Michael L. Fay, and Brian W. Monnich.

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Cozen O’Connor Adds Former Pennsylvania Attorney General and Current Securities Commission Chairman to Firm’s Commercial Litigation Group

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Cozen O’Connor, among the 100 largest U.S. law firms, is pleased to announce that former Pennsylvania Attorney General and current Chairman of the Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Commission Jerry Pappert has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation group in Philadelphia. He also will be working closely with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, the firm’s ancillary bi-partisan government relations firm. Before joining Cozen O’Connor, Mr. Pappert served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cephalon, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company.

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Squire Sanders Bolsters Intellectual Property Capability With Leading Litigator

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Squire Sanders is pleased to announce the arrival of partner Steven M. Auvil, who joins as head of the Intellectual Property and Technology Group’s litigation practice in the US. He joins from Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, where he was chair of its Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mr. Auvil will split his time between Squire Sanders’ Cleveland and Washington DC offices.

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Leading Finance Lawyer Onno Bakker to Join DLA Piper

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

DLA Piper today announces that leading specialist finance lawyer, Onno Bakker, is joining the firm as a partner in early 2013. He is joining DLA Piper’s Asia Pacific Finance and Projects practice and will be based in the firm’s Sydney office. Onno joins the firm from Linklaters where he was partner and Head of Finance in Amsterdam.

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