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Julie Steamer Joins King & Spalding as Partner
| Source: King & Spalding
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 6, 2007) - King & Spalding, a leading international law
firm, announced today that Julie B. Steamer, a transactional lawyer with
significant international experience, has joined the firm as a partner in
its New York private equity practice.
"We are pleased to welcome Julie to King & Spalding," said Robert F. Perry,
managing partner of King & Spalding's New York office. "With her
substantive knowledge and entrepreneurial skills, Julie will be a strong
asset in helping us to expand the private equity practice and to continue
providing a superior level of service to our clients in New York and around
the world."
Steamer joins King & Spalding from Goodwin Procter. She represents private
equity, venture capital and hedge fund sponsors, mezzanine investors and
other participants in private equity buyout, recapitalization, joint
venture and other strategic combinations and financing transactions. She
also advises clients on monitoring and managing portfolio company
performance and in connection with corporate governance and general
corporate matters.
Steamer represents clients in an array of industries and has significant
experience in the technology, retail and financial services sectors. At
King & Spalding, she expects to add the real estate and energy sectors to
her practice, particularly with clients in the Middle East and in Europe.
Steamer earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, at Southern Methodist
University and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, at Southern Methodist
University School of Law.
King & Spalding's private equity practice consists of more than 150 lawyers
across the firm's nine offices in the United States, Europe and the Middle
East. The practice is dedicated to understanding and achieving its clients'
objectives using a practical, problem-solving approach and draws upon its
lawyers' extensive experience in fund formation, mergers and acquisitions,
leveraged finance, Islamic finance, securities offerings, tax and
restructuring, as well as the firm's deep industry experience in areas such
as energy and infrastructure, real estate, healthcare and life sciences,
business services, technology, telecommunications and financial services.
Note to Editors: For a photograph of Julie Steamer, please contact Kimberly
Brooks at (212) 827-4378 or kbrooksk@kslaw.com.
About King & Spalding
King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in
Atlanta, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London, New York, Riyadh
(affiliated office) and Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the
Fortune 100 and in a Corporate Counsel survey in September 2007 was among
the top firms representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional
information, visit www.kslaw.com.