Venable LLP announced today the addition of a team of high-profile real estate lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf in New York.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that five partners, formerly with Dewey & LeBoeuf, will join the firm in its New York, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut offices, effective immediately. The group includes John G. Klauberg, Dewey’s former co-head of the Utilities, Power and Pipelines Global Industry Sector Group, as well as Catherine P. McCarthy, former Dewey co-head of the Energy Regulatory Department. It is anticipated that they also will be joined by a number of associates.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of highly regarded senior restructuring lawyer Timothy W. Walsh as international head of its Restructuring & Insolvency practice. The move is part of the Firm’s strategic initiative to significantly expand its worldwide restructuring and bankruptcy capabilities.

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Shearman & Sterling has increased its capabilities in the capital markets and leveraged finance practice areas with the addition of partnerJonathan DeSantis in New York.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that David M. Stewart has joined the firm in New York as a partner in the Real Estate practice. Previously, he was a partner with Latham & Watkins in New York.

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Davis Polk advised MSCI Inc. in connection with the amendment and restatement of its credit agreement and the refinancing of its existing credit facilities with $880 million of senior secured term loans and a $100 million revolving credit facility. The proceeds of the new term facility, together with cash on hand, were used to prepay $1.08 billion of term loans outstanding under MSCI’s existing facilities. The obligations under the new credit facilities are guaranteed by all of its domestic subsidiaries and secured by substantially all of the assets of the guarantors.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent, in connection with the financing for leading semi trailer manufacturer Wabash National Corporation’s (NYSE: WNC) acquisition of Walker Group Holdings LLC, a leading manufacturer of liquid-transportation systems and engineered products.

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DLA Piper today announced that Paul Chen has joined the Corporate and Securities practice as a partner. He will be based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office and will also have a significant presence in the firm’s New York office.

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Timothy J. Clark is joining the firm’s Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives practice as a partner in the New York office.

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Proskauer has expanded its Real Estate Capital Markets Group with the addition of Leslie (Les) H. Loffman as a Tax Partner in the firm’s New York office. Widely regarded as one of the country’s premiere REIT tax lawyers, Loffman was most recently a partner at DLA Piper, where he served as co-chair of its REIT practice, and before that director of national REIT services at Ernst & Young.

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