Stephen Knute Gregg, an experienced emerging company lawyer, has joined the San Francisco office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner.
Gregg brings to the firm over 15 years of experience in venture financing, M&A, securities, and general corporate work for emerging growth companies in a range of industries, inside and outside the technology sector. He focuses on M&A and private placement financings, both debt and equity. More >>
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Private Equity Finance partner Maureen Sweeney has joined the firm’s Chicago office. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner. Ms. Sweeney’s arrival closely follows the arrival of Chris Dickerson and Matt Murphy, who joined the firm’s Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice in Chicago, and the recent additions of Corporate partners in Hong Kong, New York, and London. More >>
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Ashurst today announces the appointment of Shaun Lascelles as a partner in its global private equity team.
Shaun joins from the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom where he co-headed the firm’s global private equity practice. He has extensive experience, particularly in cross-border M&A and private equity. Shaun advises a broad range of private equity firms, hedge funds, state-owned investment funds and other investment funds. He joined Skadden in 2002 and became a partner in 2007. More >>
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Simpson Thacher represented the initial purchasers, led by joint bookrunning managers J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co., UBS Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Barclays Capital Inc. in the sale of $1.125 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2023 by Jaguar Holding Company II, an indirect parent of Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (“PPD”), and PPD (collectively, the “Issuers”). The Issuers used the proceeds from the offering, together with borrowings under the Issuers’ new senior secured credit facilities and cash on hand, to refinance existing debt and to pay a dividend to their stockholders. More >>
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Markus Blenntoft as a banking and asset finance partner in the Singapore office. Blenntoft joins K&L Gates from Dentons UKMEA LLP. More >>
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Holland & Knight is continuing the growth of its Dallas office with the addition of litigation Partners Mary Goodrich Nix and Jon G. Shepherd. They join the firm from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr and Alston & Bird respectively. More >>
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Mayer Brown announced today that leading intellectual property lawyer Brian J. Winterfeldt has joined the firm in Washington DC as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice, where he will serve as co-leader of the firm’s Global Brand Management and Internet practice. Previously, he was a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he led that firm’s Internet practice. Joining Mr. Winterfeldt in the move from Katten to Mayer Brown is a team of lawyers, including one counsel in New York and two associates in New York and Washington DC. More >>
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced a prominent new member of its leading project finance and renewable energy team with the addition of Tax partner Michael O’Hara Duff, who joins the firm’s Los Angeles office. More >>
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Veteran Government Contracts litigator Daniel P. Graham has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, where he will help lead V&E’s Government Contracts team. More >>
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King & Spalding announced today that corporate and securities attorney Alana Griffin will join the firm’s corporate practice group as a partner in its Atlanta office. Griffin, who has 25 years of experience in the full range of public company corporate matters, joins the firm from Synovus Financial Corp., where she served as deputy general counsel and director of regulatory relations. More >>
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