McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Neil Rust has joined the firm’s banking and finance group in Los Angeles as a partner. He brings to the firm a broad transactional practice that includes representing domestic and international clients in connection with middle market, investment grade and leveraged finance, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate work (more…)

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Avery Dennison Corporation has announced a definitive agreement to sell its Office and Consumer Products business and Designed and Engineered Solutions business to CCL Industries Inc. for $500 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals (more…)

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Marcus Quintanillae has joined the Firm as of counsel in the Irvine Office, where he is now a member of the Global Disputes Practice. Mr. Quintanilla arrives from the Newport Beach office of O’Melveny & Myers, where he was counsel in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Practice (more…)

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The Firm recently represented KKR Financial Holdings LLC (NYSE: KFN) in an offering of 14,950,000 7.375% Series A LLC Preferred Shares, which includes the underwriters’ full exercise of their over-allotment option. The Shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on January 29, 2013 under the symbol “KFP”. The offering raised proceeds to the company of approximately $370 million (more…)

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Monica Quinn as a shareholder in its Downtown Los Angeles office. Quinn was previously a partner at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Laura M. Burson has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Burson joins from Kirkland & Ellis in Los Angeles (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it represented Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. in its offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 4.625% Senior Notes due 2023. The notes are Brocade’s senior, unsecured obligations, and interest on the notes is payable semi-annually in cash at a rate of 4.625% per annum beginning July 15, 2013. The Company will use the proceeds of the financing, together with cash on hand, to redeem all of its outstanding 6.625% senior secured notes due 2018 (more…)

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Nossaman LLP adds Geoffrey Etnire as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Etnire will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Washington, DC offices. His move to the firm comes on the heels of the recent additions of real estate partners Tony and Sylvia Arostegui in the Sacramento office and Daniel Katz in the Los Angeles office (more…)

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce the opening of its San Diego office. Spencer Skeen, who joins Ogletree Deakins from Fisher & Phillips, will serve as the founding and managing shareholder. The San Diego office, which is expected to grow quickly, is the firm’s fifth in California and part of the network of offices throughout the state that includes Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, and Torrance. San Diego is the fourth new office that Ogletree Deakins has opened in less than a year, and it extends the firm’s growth trend (more…)

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Alfred W. “Chip” Sloan has joined LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the Sports Industry and Corporate Services Practice Area teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling is advising Symphony Technology Group on First Advantage Corporation’s acquisition of the employment and resident screening business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc., a division of Reed Elsevier Group plc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed (more…)

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The firm represented ZM Capital, L.P., certain of its affiliates and certain co-investors in the acquisition of Payroll Holdings, LLC (“Cast & Crew”) announced today. Terms of the deal, which closed December 24, 2012, were not disclosed (more…)

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