Angeli C. Aragon has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology and Labor and Employment Practice Area teams. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Los Angeles office.

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Akin Gump today announced that Dario J. Frommer has joined the firm as a partner in its public law and policy practice in Los Angeles. Mr. Frommer is a former majority leader of the California State Assembly and has held a variety of high-level state government positions. He comes to Akin Gump from Mayer Brown and will lead the firm’s California public law and policy practice.

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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Timothy A. Spangler has joined the firm in Los Angeles as a partner and member of Sidley’s global Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives practice. Mr. Spangler brings extensive experience in advising clients on an array of investment vehicles and related securities and regulatory issues.

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Morrison & Foerster announced today that Jeffrey A. Chester, a well-known and highly-respected project finance and renewable energy lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in Los Angeles. Mr. Chester advises on global capital-raising transactions for the renewable and alternative energy space. He has closed more than 50 wind-power and two dozen solar-power project financings, including a 1,550-megawatt power purchase agreement by Southern California Edison, the largest wind-power purchase agreement in history.

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven M. Goldberg has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its nationally recognized litigation practice. He was previously a partner at Russ August & Kabat.

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Kevin Lombardo has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Lombardo will practice with Bryan Cave’s International Trade Client Service Group.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a national healthcare alliance, in connection with its initial public offering of 32,374,751 shares of Class A common stock, including 4,222,793 shares issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares to cover over-allotments.

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As previously announced last month, Thompson Coburn is expanding to the West Coast by opening an office in Los Angeles. Today marks the first day of the firm’s combination with Freedman Weisz LLP, a 10-attorney firm based in Century City.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP recently represented affiliates of KKR Asset Management LLC (KAM) in connection with the upsize by $300 million of the existing KKR Financial CLO 2011-1, Ltd. secured financing transaction, permitting the CLO issuer to borrow up to an incremental $225 million to purchase senior secured corporate loans. In connection with the upsize, KKR Financial Holdings LLC increased its residual interest in the transaction through the acquisition of an additional $75 million of subordinated notes. The transaction initially closed in March 2011 and was previously upsized in July 2011.

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Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Colleen M. Hart has joined the firm as an Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits partner, to be resident in the Los Angeles office. Ms. Hart adds depth to Proskauer’s highly regarded Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Group and West Coast transactional capabilities.

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