Davis Polk advised TE Connectivity Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of Deutsch Group SAS, a world leader in harsh-environment connectivity solutions, from Deutsch Group’s majority shareholder Wendel in a transaction valued at €1.55 billion (approximately $2.04 billion at current exchange rates) and completed on April 3, 2012.

A man imprisoned for 20 years following false accusations of murder is now free thanks to the efforts of a Shearman & Sterling pro bono litigation team and the Legal Aid Society. The team’s work on behalf of the client, Carlos Morillo, was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article, which described Shearman & Sterling’s critical role in helping Morillo successfully overturn his conviction for a 1991 murder.

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP has announced that Michael J.T. McMillen has joined the firm as a partner in its international finance practice based in New York.

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Michael J. Schiavone, former head of Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets – Americas Group, has joined the Firm as a transactions partner. He will co-head the Capital Markets Practice Group along with O’Melveny partner C. Brophy Christensen. Schiavone will be based in O’Melveny’s New York office. Well-known as one of the country’s leading capital markets lawyers, Schiavone’s practice focuses on bank-side capital markets representations, primarily representing underwriters in top-tier transactions.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising New York Life Insurance on the sale of its 26% stake in Max New York Life (MNYL), India’s 4th largest private life insurance company, to MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, the global insurance company based in Japan.