N. Adele Hogan has joined the New York office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in the firm’s Corporate practice group.  Hogan joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Daniel C. Glazer has joined the Firm as a corporate partner resident in the New York office. He brings extensive experience in negotiating complex domestic and cross-border intellectual property and information technology transactions.

Veteran patent litigators Tony V. Pezzano and Michael P. Dougherty have joined the intellectual property practice of King & Spalding as partners in the New York office, the firm announced today. They joined King & Spalding from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where Pezzano was a partner and Dougherty a special counsel.

Covington & Burling represented Thomson Reuters in a definitive agreement to sell its Healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash.

Phillips Nizer is pleased to announce that Alan Behr has joined the firm’s Corporate & Business Law Department as a partner, where he will continue to represent clients in international and domestic intellectual property law.  His concentrations include licensing, copyright and trademark protection for the entertainment, and fashion and accessories industries, as well as complex technology transactions.  He will also continue to represent the interests of art galleries, artists, photographers, and art collectors.

Shearman & Sterling advised Boston Scientific Corporation as borrower under a $2 billion five year revolving credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

The Firm recently represented the initial purchasers, led by Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan, in connection with Micron Technology, Inc.’s offering of $1.0 Billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2032. The notes were offered in two tranches and only to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc., as representatives of the underwriters, in connection with MRC Global Inc.’s initial public offering of 22,727,273 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $21 per share. Of those shares, MRC sold 17,045,455 shares and a selling stockholder (PVF Holdings LLC, an entity controlled by funds affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co.) sold 5,681,818 shares. The common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MRC.” Funds affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co. controlled approximately 99% of MRC prior to the offering and control approximately 77% of MRC after the offering.

Eight more lawyers recently left Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP for jobs with two other firms looking to expand their energy practices.

Hunton & Williams LLP continues its focused expansion in its key practice areas, adding six partners to its global energy and infrastructure practice from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Bud Ellis, formerly co-head of Dewey’s utilities, power and pipelines industry group, Kevin C. Felz, Michael F. Fitzpatrick Jr., Steven C. Friend, Steve R. Loeshelle and Peter K. O’Brien represent companies and investment banks in the power and utility industries, with a particular focus on public and private capital markets transactions.