John St. Clair and Paul Lin Join Jones Day's Los Angeles Office

LOS ANGELES, CA, (NAMC) - John St. Clair and Paul Lin, veteran attorneys from Coudert Brothers, have joined the corporate practice in the Los Angeles office of Jones Day.

St. Clair will be focusing his practice on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience advising clients in the U.S. and abroad regarding U.S. securities laws, as well as representation in international, domestic corporate, commercial and contractual transactions including private financings, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

St. Clair was most recently a partner in Coudert's Los Angeles office, having opened and managed that firm's Denver office in the mid-1990s. He earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Chicago and his law degree from Tulane University, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

As a corporate lawyer, Lin has represented and advised clients ranging from publicly traded multinational corporations to medium and small businesses in various industries. His principal areas of practice include cross-border joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital financing, corporate governance and general corporate advice. Lin is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese.

Lin was most recently an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Coudert Brothers and previously practiced at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. His undergraduate degree is from the University of California at Berkeley and he earned his law degree from the McGeorge School of Law.

"John and Paul are both highly accomplished lawyers with international legal experience and we are very fortunate that, after reviewing a number of options available to them with other respected law firms, they have decided to join our team here at Jones Day," said Rick McKnight, partner-in-charge of Jones Day's Los Angeles office. "The addition of these fine lawyers to our firm is a key component of our strategy to make the Los Angeles office a crucial platform for enhancing the global reach of Jones Day's corporate practice. They also provide us with even greater experience in handling various commercial transactions and are a particular boon to our ability to serve our clients' needs with respect to the capital markets."

Jones Day is an international law firm with 30 offices in centers of business and finance throughout the world. With more than 2,200 lawyers, including more than 400 in Europe and 175 in Asia, it ranks among the world's largest law firms.

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