Gerald Francese focuses his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities law and investment adviser regulation.
Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions.
The agreement centres on the US investment banking business of Lehman, including equities, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets.
In addition to his extensive knowledge of the public REIT industry, he has significant experience representing real estate investment managers in connection with their private equity capital, merger and acquisition, and portfolio acquisition transactions.
(Remember though that there are still the shareholder intervention suits to deal with in Texas. Also remember that CC Media, the private equity firms' merger subsidiary, is involved, and it's much less clear whether this cap applies to the sponsors as well).
The bank started a hiring spree in Europe and Asia to grow its fledgling equities and merger advisory business.
The group, which joins DLA Piper from Dewey & LeBoeuf, focuses its practice on corporate transactions, including finance, private equity and mergers and acquisitions, representing public and private companies, funds and institutions in a wide range of sectors around the world.
ING bought Britain's Barings, but then pulled back from most of its equities and merger business, keeping only the emerging-market side, in which ING was already strong.
In the last three months, Mr. Diamond and five other executives at Barclays Capital, the investment banking unit, have gone on a hiring spree, adding more than 450 research, equities and merger advisory professionals in Europe and Asia from rivals like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
