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With offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, K&L Gates is strategically positioned to help clients advance their business interests in Texas and across five continents.
In 2016, K&L Gates led the negotiations and acted as sole legal counsel for Finnair, the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland and one of the largest European airlines, in connection with its outsourcing of on-board WiFi connectivity services, including for transatlantic flights, across its entire aircraft fleet, including both narrow-body aircraft and wide-body aircraft. The transaction included the initial procurement of hardware and software and the long-term outsourcing of connectivity services and project support. The Dallas-based team included Nigel Stark, Partner and Reese Brammell, Associate.
K&L Gates represented Parkland, a leading public hospital system, in all aspects of a transaction in which Parkland and its controlled affiliate, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, outsourced to a new company, Pieces Technologies, Inc. (formed by outside investors) the commercialization of innovative technology that had been developed by Parkland and its affiliate. This technology, based on predictive analytics, allows providers to anticipate complications that patients may encounter so that the complications can be avoided or minimized. In addition to numerous commercial issues, this transaction was made more complex by additional legal and political issues arising from the fact that Parkland is a subdivision of the State of Texas and its affiliate was created pursuant to special authorizing legislation. The Dallas-led team included John Howell, Partner along with Greg Sapire, Partner, Austin and Siobhan Ray, Associate, Houston.
K&L Gates represented a company that specializes in direct lending and acquisition lending to commercial real estate investors and developers, in a debt finance transaction of an acquisition of residential behavioral health businesses. The Dallas-based team included Jill Louis, Partner; Laurie Lang, Of Counsel; Ernest Simons, Associate.
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