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Transactions Expert Guillermo Garau joins FTI Consulting as a managing director

FTI Consulting, Inc. announced the appointment of Guillermo Garau as a senior managing director in the Transactions practice within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment.

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Anthony S. Fiotto joins Morrison & Foerster as head of their litigation department in Boston

Morrison & Foerster announces the addition of Anthony S. Fiotto to its Litigation Department in Boston, where he will serve as the office’s litigation head. Mr. Fiotto brings to the firm thirty years of broad litigation and arbitration experience, including extensive first chair trial experience.

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Weil advises American Securities in its pending $1.575B sale of Henry Company

Weil is advising American Securities in its pending $1.575 billion sale of Henry Company, a leading provider of building envelope systems, to Carlisle Companies Incorporated. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

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McGuireWoods’ Preston Hurrell joins Bank of America

Preston Hurrell, a McGuireWoods debt finance counsel in Charlotte, joined Bank of America on July 19, 2021, as assistant general counsel. In this role, he drafts and negotiates complex commercial contracts, addresses regulatory issues, and coordinates outside counsel, among other responsibilities.

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AIG announces strategic partnership with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) and Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announce that they have reached a definitive agreement for Blackstone to acquire a 9.9% equity stake in AIG’s Life & Retirement business for $2.2 billion in an all cash transaction.

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N. Damali Peterman, Esq., joins JAMS in New York

JAMS announces the addition of N. Damali Peterman, Esq., to its panel. Ms. Peterman joins JAMS with over 20 years of ADR experience as a mediator, conflict resolution trainer, ADR entrepreneur and corporate transactional lawyer in private and in-house practice.

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Lighthouse announces acquisition of H5

Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled ediscovery, compliance and information governance services, announces it will acquire H5, the industry’s leading provider of sensitive data classification, analytics and e-discovery solutions for complex litigation and regulatory compliance challenges.

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Garen E. Dodge returns to Jackson Lewis's Washington, D.C. region office as a principal.

Jackson Lewis P.C. announces Garen E. Dodge has returned to the firm’s Washington, D.C. Region office as a principal. Garen rejoins the firm from Epstein Becker & Green, where his practice covered the spectrum of labor and employment litigation.

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Akin Gump advises LUKOIL in $435 million Gulf of Mexico project

PJSC LUKOIL announces the entry into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent operated interest in the Area 4 project in Mexico through the acquisition of the operator’s holding company.

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Broadridge names Keir Gumbs as chief legal officer

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announces that Keir Gumbs has been appointed chief legal officer, effective July 27, 2021. Gumbs will succeed Adam Amsterdam, who will be retiring after nearly 30 years of leading Broadridge’s Legal function.

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