Venable LLP announced today that William J. Briggs, II has joined the Los Angeles office as partner in the Commercial Litigation Group. Briggs is an entertainment industry veteran representing well-known talent in film, television and music as well as production and music publishing companies. Previously, Briggs was a partner at Lavely & Singer in Los Angeles.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”)in connection with its investment in Neff, Inc. (“Neff”), a leading accessories and apparel company focused on the action sports youth lifestyle market based in Camarillo, CA.

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Alston & Bird LLP announced today that Charles W. Cox has joined its litigation team as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Cox focuses on representing clients in complex commercial litigation, including stockholder litigation, class actions, derivative suits and matters related to mergers and acquisitions.

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Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Leila Nourani has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as Partner. Ms. Nourani joins Jackson Lewis from Foley & Lardner LLP, where she served as Chair of the Los Angeles office’s Litigation Department from 2008 to 2011.

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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton today announced the opening of a Los Angeles office to be led by preeminent California intellectual property attorneys Larry McFarland, Dennis Wilson and other attorneys formerly with the highly-regarded firm Keats McFarland & Wilson (KMW). Kilpatrick Townsend was formed over two years ago by the combination of Kilpatrick Stockton and Townsend and Townsend and Crew.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm, recently helped Korean Air Lines reach important milestones for its Wilshire Grand redevelopment project in downtown Los Angeles. Korean Air Lines has now begun work on its approximately $950 million mixed use project, located at one of the prime locations in the financial district. Korean Air Lines recently began demolishing the existing obsolete hotel and will start vertical construction later this year. The project, which is currently the largest private construction project in Los Angeles, will consist of a 900 room four plus star hotel with ballrooms and convention facilities, approximately 380,000 square feet of office space and 200,000 square feet of restaurants, retail and other amenities in a single 72 story tower with attached podium building. Construction of the project will continue through 2016 and the project opening is scheduled for January 2017.

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McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Neil Rust has joined the firm’s banking and finance group in Los Angeles as a partner. He brings to the firm a broad transactional practice that includes representing domestic and international clients in connection with middle market, investment grade and leveraged finance, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate work.

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Avery Dennison Corporation has announced a definitive agreement to sell its Office and Consumer Products business and Designed and Engineered Solutions business to CCL Industries Inc. for $500 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Monica Quinn as a shareholder in its Downtown Los Angeles office. Quinn was previously a partner at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP’s Los Angeles office.

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Laura M. Burson has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Burson joins from Kirkland & Ellis in Los Angeles.

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