Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Todd Carpenter has joined the firm as a corporate partner in the Emerging Companies Practice, based in San Francisco. Carpenter focuses on high-growth, private companies and venture investors in the technology and life sciences sectors.
Morgan Lewis welcomes corporate partner Tony Chan, who advises clients on a wide range of complex transactions across industries, including technology, life sciences, and financial services. Mr. Chan will be resident in Morgan Lewis’s Washington, DC, office.
Pillsbury has announced the arrival of Executive Compensation and Benefits partner Jonathan Ocker to the firm’s San Francisco office. Ocker joins from Orrick, where he was a partner and the chair of that firm’s Executive Compensation and Benefits group. He is also an alumnus of Pillsbury.
With an impressive list of marquee clients, Ocker advises public companies, boards of directors and high-profile executives on corporate governance and compensation.
Paul Burns is re-elected as an M&A partner after serving as in-house counsel for leading companies in the life sciences, energy and technology sectors.
NEW YORK – Allen & Overy has announced the re-election of Paul Burns as partner in the firm’s corporate/M&A practice in New York.
Dentons’ continues its expansion in Australia with the appointment of Andrew Chan as a partner in the corporate team in Melbourne.
Andrew has more than 10 years’ corporate experience across Australia, Asia and Europe and specialises in advising clients on cross border mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers, schemes of arrangement, private equity matters, corporate governance, restructures and fundraising on equity capital markets.
Schulte Roth & Zabel announces the addition of Kristine Manoukian as a partner in the Business Reorganization Group, resident in the firm’s New York office. Ms. Manoukian joins the firm from Clifford Chance, where she was a partner in the financial restructuring group.
The worldwide leading manufacturer of high performance sensor and analog solutions ams AG, an Austrian company listed at SIX Swiss Exchange, and GGV Capital, Temasek, Jolt Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, Innovacom, Credence, Pantheon, Iconiq Strategic Partners, Matrix Partners, Orchid Investments, Vertex Ventures, AAC Technologies and other former shareholders of Heptagon Advanced Micro-Optics (Heptagon), a global leader in micro-optics and optical sensing solutions with particular expertise in high performance optical packaging, agreed on a revised earnout structure regarding the sale of H
Paris office advised PAI Partners in France on the fundraising of its seventh Pan-European private equity fund, PAI Europe VII.
On March 29, Willkie’s longtime client PAI Partners announced the final closing of its seventh Pan-European private equity fund, PAI Europe VII. The fund was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap of €5 billion in less than six months.
Willkie represented the underwriters in Arch Capital Group’s secondary public offering of 5,674,200 common shares.
Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACGL) recently announced that an underwritten public secondary offering of 5,674,200 common shares by certain selling shareholders affiliated with American International Group, Inc. has closed. The public offering price is $88.55 per common share for an aggregate public offering price of $502,450,410. Willkie represented the underwriters in the transaction.
Osborne Clarke has advised the Senior Management team of OrthoD Group on its buyout funded by healthcare specialist Apposite Capital.
The deal provides a successful exit for previous investors, Riverside Europe Partners LLP (the European arm of The Riverside Company the global private equity firm focused on making control and non-control investments in growing businesses valued at up to $400 million), almost 10 years to the day following its first investment in OrthoD.