Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced today that Laura D. Yockey has rejoined the firm’s private equity practice as counsel in Chicago. Ms. Yockey represents private equity, public company and other clients in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, refinancings and general corporate matters in a wide variety of sectors, and has particularly strong experience in healthcare and life sciences.

Additionally, capital markets counsel Christopher Capuzzi joins Ropes & Gray’s 350-lawyer New York office, continuing the expansion of the firm’s global capital markets practice. Mr. Capuzzi’s practice concentrates on corporate finance matters, including the representation of issuers, underwriters, and selling stockholders in a broad range of domestic and international offerings. His experience encompasses public and private debt, equity, convertible and preferred securities offerings and leveraged financings, in addition to specialty finance capital markets transactions. Mr. Capuzzi is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York and, prior to his career in law, was an auditor at KPMG.

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