On May 9, Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (Ulta Beauty), the nation’s largest beauty products and services retailer, announced it has priced an underwritten public offering of seven million shares of its common stock held by certain entities associated with Mousse Partners, at a price to the public of $84.00 per share, in a deal valued at $588 million. Willkie represented the selling stockholders, Doublemousse B.V. and Moussetrap. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,050,000 shares from one of the selling stockholders.

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Winston & Strawn LLP announced today it is being joined by 22 litigation partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf, one energy partner, and a number of associates and of counsel. The well-respected group will complement Winston’s rapidly expanding global litigation and transactional footprint.

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that a group of leading finance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers is joining the Firm from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Richard Shutran, Junaid H. Chida, Arthur V. Hazlitt, Mark Caterini, and Dev R. Sen will be partners in O’Melveny’s New York office.

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Herrick, Feinstein LLP announced today that David A. Pentlow, a veteran in the areas of corporate and securities law, has joined the firm’s New York office as a Partner in the Corporate Department. Mr. Pentlow was formerly a Partner with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

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