Jones Day acted for Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS) in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 6.750% Senior Notes co-issued by Cascades Inc. and Cascades USA Inc., a U.S. indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cascades Inc.

Kirkland & Ellis reprsented Vista Equity Partners and Securonix in Securonix’s acquisition of ThreatQuotient.

Winston & Strawn adds Yulia Makarova to the firm’s London office as a partner in the Financial Innovation & Regulation practice.

Secretary Ken Salazar, most recently the US ambassador to Mexico, is rejoining WilmerHale as Senior Counsel, based in the firm’s Denver office which he founded in 2014 as its first partner.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP adds private funds lawyer Debra Franzese to the Firm as a partner in the Asset Management Department. She is based in New York.

White & Case LLP adds Alberto Sepúlveda as a partner with its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice in Mexico City.

White & Case acted for banks in Euronext N.V.’s inaugural issue of bonds convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares.

White & Case represented Carlyle Global Credit in Fitness Park’s €280 million unitranche financing.

Vedder Price Chicago-based Environmental Counsel Dana Mehlman has been named President of the University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association (CEEAA).

Vedder Price represented Netrio, a portfolio company of L Squared Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Agio, a managed IT services provider for hedge funds, private equity funds and financial services providers.