Comings & goings ...

The associate general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District has joined Brown Winfield & Canzoneri Inc. of counsel. Penny Pittman Cobey, who oversaw the renovation of the Getty Villa before joining the School District in 2002, worked with outside developers on the school projects ... A team of seven Los Angeles lawyers led by David Sands, a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, is representing Countrywide Home Loans, a division of Calabasas-based Countrywide Financial Corp., in its pending acquisition of KB Home Mortgage Corp ... A 33-lawyer team from Latham & Watkins LLP, including three in Los Angeles, represented Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners in their recent $2.66 billion purchase of Agilent Technologies Inc.'s semiconductor products group.

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