Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven M. Goldberg has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its nationally recognized litigation practice. He was previously a partner at Russ August & Kabat.

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Kevin Lombardo has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Lombardo will practice with Bryan Cave’s International Trade Client Service Group.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a national healthcare alliance, in connection with its initial public offering of 32,374,751 shares of Class A common stock, including 4,222,793 shares issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares to cover over-allotments.

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As previously announced last month, Thompson Coburn is expanding to the West Coast by opening an office in Los Angeles. Today marks the first day of the firm’s combination with Freedman Weisz LLP, a 10-attorney firm based in Century City.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP recently represented affiliates of KKR Asset Management LLC (KAM) in connection with the upsize by $300 million of the existing KKR Financial CLO 2011-1, Ltd. secured financing transaction, permitting the CLO issuer to borrow up to an incremental $225 million to purchase senior secured corporate loans. In connection with the upsize, KKR Financial Holdings LLC increased its residual interest in the transaction through the acquisition of an additional $75 million of subordinated notes. The transaction initially closed in March 2011 and was previously upsized in July 2011.

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Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Colleen M. Hart has joined the firm as an Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits partner, to be resident in the Los Angeles office. Ms. Hart adds depth to Proskauer’s highly regarded Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Group and West Coast transactional capabilities.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, is representing Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) in the acquisition of Australian engineering consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz for a cash purchase price of approximately AUS$1.3 billion (approximately US$1.2 billion as of the date of this release).

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Kathleen L. Brown has joined the firm as a partner. She will be based in Manatt’s Los Angeles office, spending significant time in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices.

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Elizabeth Bawden to the firm’s Corporate practice in California.  Based in Los Angeles, Bawden’s experience includes implementing complex estate plans for high net worth clients, counseling clients with respect to intra-family wealth transfers, advising and assisting trustees and estate executors concerning all phases of probate and trust administration, and establishing and representing private foundations, public charities and other types of tax-exempt organizations. Joining the Private Client Services team as a partner, she is the tenth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year.

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In its latest large project financing in the US renewable energy sector, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented the lender group in funding the construction of a major new wind farm under development on 18,000 acres in Carson County, located some 30 miles from Amarillo, Texas.

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