Norton Rose Fulbright announced the addition of J. David Bournazian, a highly recognized litigator from California, as a partner in its practice specializing on consumer disputes and product liability.

David Lacaze and Isabelle Augais have become partners in the Paris-based real estate office of Norton Rose Fulbright. David and Isabelle will assist and oversee cross-border transactions involving real estate assets, strategic investments, joint ventures, hospitality purchases and dispositions, and asset management. They join from the Paris office of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF).

As part of its collaboration with Windward Energy (Windward), Orrick has provided advice to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) regarding its investment in Bute Energy.

Bank Muscat’s Izdihar Real Estate Fund received advice from Baker McKenzie regarding the successful purchase of the GEMS School of Research and Innovation’s real estate in Dubai.

Mayer Brown strengthened Omni-owned Infoshare+’s data capabilities by advising Omni Partners (“Omni”) and Infoshare+ on the purchase of Datatank Limited (“Datatank”). Additionally, Mayer Brown provided advice to Omni regarding its initial purchase of Infoshare, a leader in data management, and Infoshare’s subsequent acquisition of two important software programs from Looking Local, a provider of digital…

In order to prepare Trucordia for faster expansion through an enhanced capital structure and streamlined governance, the global investment firm Carlyle’s Global Credit platform has announced that it will make a $1.3 billion strategic investment in the company. Trucordia was represented by Orrick.

In order to finance Bridgepoint’s acquisition of Finzzle Groupe, a French wealth management platform, and its prospective external growth operations, Orrick provided Apera and Deutsche Bank with advice regarding a unitranche financing arrangement that was given to Bridgepoint for a total principle amount of €163,000,000.

Honigman acted as the representative for Rockbridge Growth Equity portfolio business Rapid Financial Services, a Bethesda, Maryland-based specialist financial services company, in the $130 million issue of five classes of Series 2025-1 Asset-Backed expandable term notes. Small and mid-sized enterprises can obtain working capital from Rapid Financial Services.

Julie Jorgensen has joined Spencer Fane LLP’s Omaha, Nebraska, office as an of counsel lawyer in the practice group of litigation and dispute resolution.

To debut in Miami, Cole Schotz has acquired three attorneys from Salazar Law, a business litigation firm. In 1992, Luis Salazar, who would be in charge of the new office, started working at Cole Schotz. In less than two months, the firm has opened two new offices.