Simpson Thacher Represents Carlyle in Purchase of 55% Stake in Vermillion Asset Management

Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Firm represented The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) in the purchase of a 55% stake in Vermillion Asset Management (“Vermillion”), effective October 1, 2012. Vermillion is a New York-based commodities investment manager with approximately $2.2 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2012. Vermillion has become affiliated with Carlyle’s Global Market Strategies business and will become Carlyle’s commodities trading platform. The purchase price was not disclosed.

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Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General Joins Perkins Coie

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Eric D. Miller has joined the firm’s Seattle office as a partner in the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. He was previously an Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General in Washington, D.C. In that position, he argued 14 cases in the United States Supreme Court, and he has filed more than 200 briefs in the Supreme Court.

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