Pillsbury today announced that Catherine C. Hood and J. Anthony Terrell have joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice as partners in its New York office. Distinguished advisors focusing on a host of securities, finance, regulatory and corporate issues for energy businesses, Hood and Terrell add to Pillsbury’s established experience and capability in the energy and financial services sectors, particularly in energy capital markets. They arrive from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and continue Pillsbury’s strategic expansion in New York, where the firm has now added seven new partners this year.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce the opening of its New York City office. The New York City office, which officially opens on Wednesday, is the 41st for Ogletree Deakins, which was founded in 1977 with just two offices and 16 attorneys. The firm now has more than 650 attorneys nationwide.

Orrick advised Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and Skanska Infrastructure Development on the $1.5 billion financing of the Midtown Tunnel concession in Virginia.

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that William Primps has joined the Trial group in the Firm’s New York office as a Partner. Mr. Primps is a highly-experienced litigator with a practice focused on antitrust, energy, insurance and regulated industries. His clients include major insurance and reinsurance companies and alternative energy providers, including the largest operator of wind turbines in China as well as a U.S.-based manufacturer of wind turbines. During his career, he has represented Canada’s largest state-owned utility company, a major paper company in a large antitrust litigation, as well as major financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.

Davis Polk advised TE Connectivity Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of Deutsch Group SAS, a world leader in harsh-environment connectivity solutions, from Deutsch Group’s majority shareholder Wendel in a transaction valued at €1.55 billion (approximately $2.04 billion at current exchange rates) and completed on April 3, 2012.

A man imprisoned for 20 years following false accusations of murder is now free thanks to the efforts of a Shearman & Sterling pro bono litigation team and the Legal Aid Society. The team’s work on behalf of the client, Carlos Morillo, was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article, which described Shearman & Sterling’s critical role in helping Morillo successfully overturn his conviction for a 1991 murder.

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP has announced that Michael J.T. McMillen has joined the firm as a partner in its international finance practice based in New York.

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Michael J. Schiavone, former head of Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets – Americas Group, has joined the Firm as a transactions partner. He will co-head the Capital Markets Practice Group along with O’Melveny partner C. Brophy Christensen. Schiavone will be based in O’Melveny’s New York office. Well-known as one of the country’s leading capital markets lawyers, Schiavone’s practice focuses on bank-side capital markets representations, primarily representing underwriters in top-tier transactions.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising New York Life Insurance on the sale of its 26% stake in Max New York Life (MNYL), India’s 4th largest private life insurance company, to MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, the global insurance company based in Japan.

Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $2.5 billion aggregate financing, including a $1.5 billion 364-day credit facility and a $1 billion five-year credit facility for United Parcel Service, Inc.