Skadden is representing Doughty Hanson & Co. in its $1.4 billion sale of Vue Entertainment Ltd., an operator of movie theaters, to Alberta Investment Management Corporation and OMERS Private Equity, announced on June 10.

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Paul, Weiss client The Carlyle Group, together with other investors, successfully took private Focus Media for $3.7 billion in the largest-ever going-private deal by a Chinese company. The Carlyle Group invested in Focus Media, China’s largest lifestyle-targeted interactive digital media network, through its Asia Partners III fund alongside FountainVest, CITIC Capital, China Everbright, Nanchun Jiang and Fosun International Limited.

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Eric Su as a shareholder in its New York City office. Su joins Ogletree Deakins from Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment, Litigation and Construction practice groups. Su is the 18^th shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins in 2013 and the third shareholder to join the firm’s New York City office. The firm welcomed Ronald Kreismann in May, and Frank Birchfield joined in March.

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Simpson Thacher recently represented The Carlyle Group in connection with a $296 million secondary offering of common units by California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”).

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Experienced hedge fund, investment management and private equity lawyer Kay A. Gordon joins Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP today as a partner in the firm’s 30-lawyer, nationally ranked Investment Management Group. She joins the firm from the New York office of K&L Gates.

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Goodwin attorneys recently advised Frazier Healthcare and its portfolio company Packaging Coordinators, Inc. (PCI) in the acquisition of AndersonBrecon from AmerisourceBergen Corporation. As a result of the $308 million cash deal, PCI is now one of the world’s largest outsourced pharmaceutical packaging businesses.

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On June 10th, AstraZeneca announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Willkie client Pearl Therapeutics, a privately held company based in Redwood City, California, focused on the development of inhaled small-molecule therapeutics for respiratory disease, for $1.15 billion. AstraZeneca is a leading global biopharmaceuticals company and the U.K.’s second-largest drug company. Pearl has advanced a potential new treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), currently in late-stage development, and inhaler and formulation technology that will provide a platform for future combination products. Willkie represented Pearl and its shareholders, led by Vatera Healthcare Partners, in the transaction.

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Cahill represented J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets, and KeyBanc Capital Markets as joint book-running managers and Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, Scotiabank, and Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. as co-managers in connection with the public offering of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7% Senior Notes due 2021 by Approach Resources Inc., an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and gas properties.

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Gerald L. Shargel, widely regarded as one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the country, has joined Winston & Strawn LLP as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Shargel, who has handled some of the most high-profile criminal cases at the investigative, trial and appellate levels, joins the firm’s litigation practice.

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Cahill represented J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, Barclays and Citigroup as lead arrangers in connection with the $11.5 billion in credit facilities consisting of $9.5 billion of term loan facilities that were used to fund a portion of the consideration for the $23 billion leveraged buyout of H.J. Heinz by 3G Capital Partners Ltd. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and $2.0 billion of revolving credit facilities.

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