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Heart Institute.

Communications:

-- Represented Communications & Power Industries, Inc., a leading provider

of microwave products for defense, medical, communications and

scientific applications, in its acquisition of Malibu Research

Associates, Inc., a designer of advanced antenna systems for radar and

communications systems. Irell also represented Communications & Power

in the expansion of its senior credit facility and served as counsel to

its parent company, CPI International, Inc., in its $58 million tender

offer for its floating rate senior notes.

Real Estate/Home-Related

-- Served as counsel to Pacific Life Insurance Company on various

construction and term loans on real estate development projects,

including large apartment complexes, premier golf courses and world

class hotels.

-- Represented Arrow Group Industries, a leading manufacturer and

distributor of outdoor structures for residential use, including garden

sheds, greenhouses, carports, patio covers, and other home-related

products and accessories, in the amendment of its $80 million second

lien term loan.

Art, Planned Giving

-- Advised The Broad Art Foundation and Eli and Edythe Broad in their

negotiations for their loan of over 200 valuable works of art for the

inaugural exhibition at the newly completed Broad Contemporary Art

Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Irell also represented

The Broads on their Foundation's $60 million gift to LACMA that

provided for the construction of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum

as well as funding for the purchase of new works of art at the

institution, and Irell also represented a number of high net worth

individuals in pledges and supporting g
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