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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that that the firm represented EIG Global Energy Partners (“EIG”), a leading institutional investor to the global energy sector, in connection with the settlement of a lawsuit filed by EIG challenging the proposed acquisition of The TCW Group by certain investment funds operated by The Carlyle Group.

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Fred Bernstein has joined the firm as a partner in its Entertainment and Media Practice. Bernstein is an industry veteran who has worked both in private practice and as a top studio executive for many years.

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In a major victory for Toyota and the auto industry generally, on January 9, 2013, Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Consumer Protection Defense attorneys successfully defeated a motion for class certification in a multidistrict litigation over customer complaints related to the anti-lock brake (ABS) systems in 2010 Prius and Lexus HS25h vehicles.

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Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII), a provider of executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, has announced the acquisition of Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, LLC (Senn Delaney), a company which for 34 years has assisted Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies and other major non-profit organizations, institutions and government entities with shaping their cultures. Steptoe advised Senn Delaney in the transaction, with Greif & Co., a Los Angeles-based middle-market investment bank, acting as exclusive financial advisor to Senn Delaney. The deal closed on December 31, and Senn Delaney will now operate as a subsidiary of Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles from its Huntington Beach, California headquarters.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal advisor to SunPower Corp. in the sale of its 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located solar power plants in California’s Kern and Los Angeles counties, to MidAmerican Solar.

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