Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII), a provider of executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, has announced the acquisition of Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, LLC (Senn Delaney), a company which for 34 years has assisted Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies and other major non-profit organizations, institutions and government entities with shaping their cultures. Steptoe advised Senn Delaney in the transaction, with Greif & Co., a Los Angeles-based middle-market investment bank, acting as exclusive financial advisor to Senn Delaney. The deal closed on December 31, and Senn Delaney will now operate as a subsidiary of Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles from its Huntington Beach, California headquarters.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal advisor to SunPower Corp. in the sale of its 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located solar power plants in California’s Kern and Los Angeles counties, to MidAmerican Solar.

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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced Michael Tomasulo has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the intellectual property practice. Mr. Tomasulo’s practice focuses on high stakes intellectual property litigation and counseling for a wide array of technology clients. Mr. Tomasulo practiced with the same group for 17 years, most recently with Jones Day and then Dickstein Shapiro in Los Angeles.

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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Project Finance partner Allan T. Marks and colleagues Jon Reiter, Adam Bloom and Thomas Quirxtner represented the bond purchasers in the financing of the water and wastewater facility in Rialto, California. The financing totaled approximately $177 million.

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A team of Loeb & Loeb LLP attorneys represented KCET, the nation’s largest independent public television station, in a merger with Link Media, an independent non-profit media company, to create KCETLink, a new independent public media network.

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Amar Thakur has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Thakur, who has an Electrical Engineering degree, specializes in intellectual property litigation and intellectual property licensing matters.

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Matthew B. Gruenberg, a noted corporate lawyer, has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and will chair the Franchising & Distribution Law Practice Group.

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DLA Piper today announced that Patrick Connolly has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office.

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Hunton & Williams LLP continues its strategic growth with the addition of partner Colleen Doyle and counsel Diana Martin to the firm’s environmental law practice group. Formerly with Bingham McCutchen LLP, Doyle and Martin are based in the firm’s Los Angeles office and rejoin partner Scott Burton, who moved to the firm from Bingham in 2008.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, a unit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in financing two acquisitions made by Bullhorn Inc., a recruiting software company owned by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Bullhorn Inc. has acquired MaxHire Solutions Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, and Sendouts LLC based in St. Louis. The two software firms provide services to staffing and recruiting agencies.

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