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DLA Piper was ranked first globally by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst for the number of private equity transactions it negotiated and closed in 2012. DLA Piper topped the list for the second consecutive year with 410 private equity deals.

DLA Piper has advised Healthcare Buying Group Limited, a company backed by The Carlyle Group and Palamon Capital Partners, on its acquisition of DBG (UK) Limited (“dbg”) from Synova Capital.

DLA Piper is proud to announce that 34 lawyers have been promoted to its partnership. The promotions are effective from 1 January 2013 in the United States and 1 May 2013 for EMEA and Asia Pacific and were made across a wide spectrum of practice areas throughout 10 countries.

DLA Piper today announces the appointment of David Farmer to the Pensions team which forms part of the Employment group, based in London. David joins from Olswang where he has been since 2008 and was Head of Pensions.

DLA Piper today announces that Rob Salter and Anu Balasubramanian will be joining as partners in the London Corporate Group. Rob trained at Freshfields before joining Berwin Leighton Paisner in 2004 where he was made partner in 2006. Anu trained at Ashurst, moving to Kirkland & Ellis in 2005 where she was promoted to the partnership in 2007.

DLA Piper has advised Etihad Airways on its investment of US$379 million in a 24% stake in Jet Airways as part of an extensive strategic alliance between the two airlines. This is the first investment by a foreign airline in an Indian airline since the Indian government liberalised its rules for the Indian aviation sector in September 2012.

Verisona Solicitors and DLA Piper have advised Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) and Portsmouth City Council respectively on the purchase of Portsmouth Football Club rescuing it from administration and creating the largest community owned football club in the country.

DLA Piper today announces that senior international energy, infrastructure, and finance lawyer Alexander Sarac has relocated to Tanzania. Alexander will be on international secondment to IMMMA Advocates, a member of the DLA Piper Africa Group.

Etihad Airways and DLA Piper have won Euromoney's Air Finance Journal award for 2012 Middle East Deal of the Year, in relation to the secured loan and equity purchase of Etihad's acquisition of a stake in Air Berlin. A team of lawyers from Manchester, London and Germany worked on the deal.

Etihad Airways and DLA Piper and have won Euromoney's Air Finance Journal award for 2012 Middle East Deal of the Year, in relation to the secured loan and equity purchase of Etihad's acquisition of a stake in Air Berlin.