Law firm McCarter & English, LLP is pleased to announce that attorney Heidi E. Opinsky has joined the firm as a partner. She will split her time between the firm’s Stamford, CT and New York City offices. With more than 27 years of experience in family law matters, Opinsky will focus on counseling New York and Connecticut state residents in resolving their family law, divorce, alimony, child support, domestic violence and property law issues.

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Following a two-week bench trial before Justice O. Peter Sherwood of the New York Supreme Court, Dechert achieved a victory today on behalf of Rubin Schron and Cammeby’s Equity Holdings with the court’s ruling that Cam Equity may acquire SavaSeniorCare LLC, a national nursing-home company, through the assumption of $100 million in outstanding debt. In so doing, Justice Sherwood rejected the claims of Sava’s owners, Leonard Grunstein and Murray Forman, that Schron had fallen $120 million short on his lending commitments as a “prevarication” and concluded that the “mendacity of Grunstein and Forman” entitled their story to be given no weight.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Amr Aly has joined the firm in New York as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice.

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Davis Polk is advising Equinix, Inc. on its sale of 16 data centers located throughout the United States to an investment group consisting of 365 Main, Crosslink Capital and Housatonic Partners for approximately $75 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.

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BakerHostetler announced today that Jay P. Krupin and Ana S. Salper have joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as Partners. Krupin will be the firm’s National Labor and Employment Practice Team Leader for Industry Sectors and will reside in Washington, D.C. Salper, along with Associate Paul Rosenberg, will be in the Firm’s New York office. All three come to BakerHostetler from Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.

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A team of Goodwin Procter attorneys helped client 330 N. Wabash Avenue, LLC obtain a $200 million construction loan to fund the ongoing renovations of a landmark Chicago skyscraper. The renovation project involves the 52-story skyscraper at 330 N. Wabash Avenue designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The 1.5-million square foot building, which includes class A office space and a luxury hotel, was built in 1971 and has been named a historic landmark.

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Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP is pleased to announce that John J. Driscoll has joined the firm as a Partner in the Corporate, International and Intellectual Property Practice Groups at Tarter Krinsky and Drogin LLP.

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that H.H. Sean Wee has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice. Wee comes to Manatt from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York.

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On August 30, 2012, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which an affiliate of Carlyle Group LP will acquire its performance coatings unit for approximately $4.9 billion. Cravath represented Credit Suisse as a joint lead arranger of committed financing in connection with this transaction.

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Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters, led by UBS Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. in connection with an initial public offering of common shares of beneficial interest of BlackRock Municipal Target Term Trust (the “Trust”). The offering raised approximately $1.55 billion or approximately $1.78 billion if the underwriters exercise their overallotment option in full.

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