Caplin & Drysdale announced today that Elan P. Keller has joined the firm as a member in its New York office. Mr. Keller will be part of the Corporate, Business & Transactional Tax, International Tax, and Tax Controversies practice groups. He was previously a Managing Director and Tax Director of Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. (“Macquarie”), where he oversaw Macquarie Americas’ diverse structural and transaction-based initiatives from a tax perspective, including matters relating to domestic and international M&A; infrastructure and leasing transactions; structured finance and capital markets transactions; transfer pricing; fixed income; and oil, gas, energy, and natural resource transactions.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Patron Capital, the specialist pan-European opportunistic and distressed asset investor, as U.S. legal counsel in forming a new private investment fund, Patron Capital, L.P. IV. The Fund recently had its final closing, raising over US$ 1.1 billion from a diverse, global investor base including, among others, pension funds, endowments, private foundations and high net worth individuals. Fund IV is seeking to make investments in opportunistic distressed and undervalued properties and asset based corporate transactions, primarily across Western Europe.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Real Estate Capital Asia Partners III and its investment manager, SC Capital Partners, in the formation of a $530 million fund that will focus on real estate investment opportunities in Asia. The fund held its final closing on August 13, 2012, raising capital from a diverse institutional investor base including, among others, public and private pension funds, funds of funds, endowments, and private foundations. Paul Hastings also represented the fund in establishing a $50 million subscription line credit facility.

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