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.

Vedder Price is adding attorney Michael Kurzer to the New York office as a Shareholder in the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice group.

Vedder Price is adding attorney Susan Niver as a Shareholder in the New York office.

Law firms including Sheppard Mullin, Brown Rudnick and Boies Schiller Flexner are hiring intellectual property attorneys in their Washington, D.C., offices.

Dentons hired trade and commodities finance partner Ellis Lawson as a member of its Banking and Finance team in London.