On October 14, an international team of Winston & Strawn attorneys, led by partners Bill Grant and Terry Brady, closed the biggest merger in hedge fund history.

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Shearman & Sterling represented International CCE Inc. in connection with its September 14, 2010 public offering of $475 million of its 2.125% Notes due 2015 and $525 million of its 3.500% Notes due 2020. Shearman & Sterling also represented International CCE Inc. in connection with its September 29, 2010 Regulation S offering of €350 million 3.125% Notes due 2017

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Shearman & Sterling represented the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets, in connection with Sprott Physical Gold Trust’s public offering of units in the United States and Canada. Gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $278.6 million

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Alyssa Grikscheit has joined Sidley Austin LLP in New York. Grikscheit will practice in the Latin America and investment funds practices. She leaves Goodwin Proctor for this opportunity.

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Thompson Hine has added Simon Miller to its firm. Miller joins the New York office as a partner. He previously practiced with Greenberg Traurig in Business Litigation.

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Cooley nabbed a Capital Markets partner from Proskauer Rose.  Ian Blumenstein joins Cooley’s New York office.  Prior to joining Proskauer in 2006, Blumenstein practice with Latham & Watkins.

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Littler Mendelson P.C. has hired a renowned international employment lawyer in New York.  Philip Berkowitz has joined the firm as a shareholder.  Berkowitz previously practiced with Nixon Peabody.

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is taking on four attorneys from the Law Offices of Claudia Wagner LLC, including its namesake. Claudia Wagner joins Manatt’s New York office as co-chair of the government practice. October 1^st will be the lateral group’s first day.

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Nixon Peabody is changing its luck: the firm has just made its first lateral hire in New York since it had quite a few partners leave the office. Charles Dietzgen has joined the firm from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. Dietzgen focuses his practice on corporate trustees.

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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has boosted its New York office with the hire of James G. McCarney. McCarney joins as a partner in the Business Trail practice group. He leaves Howrey in New York for this new opportunity.

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