Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, is representing Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) in the acquisition of Australian engineering consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz for a cash purchase price of approximately AUS$1.3 billion (approximately US$1.2 billion as of the date of this release).

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Kathleen L. Brown has joined the firm as a partner. She will be based in Manatt’s Los Angeles office, spending significant time in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices.

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Elizabeth Bawden to the firm’s Corporate practice in California.  Based in Los Angeles, Bawden’s experience includes implementing complex estate plans for high net worth clients, counseling clients with respect to intra-family wealth transfers, advising and assisting trustees and estate executors concerning all phases of probate and trust administration, and establishing and representing private foundations, public charities and other types of tax-exempt organizations. Joining the Private Client Services team as a partner, she is the tenth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year.

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In its latest large project financing in the US renewable energy sector, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented the lender group in funding the construction of a major new wind farm under development on 18,000 acres in Carson County, located some 30 miles from Amarillo, Texas.

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The Firm represented Platinum Equity in raising its target of $3.75 billion for Platinum Equity Capital Partners Fund III, L.P. and its related entities.  Platinum Equity specializes in the merger, acquisition and operation of companies involved in information technology, telecommunications, logistics, metals services, manufacturing and distribution.  The Firm also represented Platinum Equity in connection with its two prior funds.

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Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Jinshu “John” Zhang has joined the firm’s office in Los Angeles as a partner. Zhang’s practice encompasses mergers, acquisitions, private placements, public offerings of securities, and other sophisticated business transactions, with a particular emphasis on Chinese outbound investments.

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, continues to expand its top-rated national litigation team with the addition of John W. McGuinness to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Division. He comes from BuckleySandler LLP and joins his former colleague Donna L. Wilson, who came to Manatt in late July.

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Polsinelli welcomes experienced health care attorney Robert Layton to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a shareholder, joining a national Health Care Practice ranked by both the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and Modern Healthcare as the nation’s fourth largest. Layton has practiced as a health care attorney for more than three decades, representing virtually every segment of the industry.

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National law firm Wilson Elser has tapped Dean Rocco, formerly a partner with Jackson Lewis, to bolster its already strong national Employment & Labor practice. Mr. Rocco is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that class action and products liability trial attorney Lisa Gilford has joined the firm’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group in Los Angeles. Ms. Gilford most recently served as co-chair of the products liability group in the Los Angeles office of another highly regarded law firm, where she represented companies in the automotive, telecommunications, life science, chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries on every level of significant mass tort litigation in federal and state courts across the nation.

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