Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising The Carlyle Group on its sale of a majority stake in Getty Images Inc., a global leader in visual communications, to the Getty family. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2018.

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global alternative asset manager with $210 billion of assets under management across 335 investment vehicles as of June 30, 2018.

The Debevoise team is led by partners Paul S. Bird and Jonathan E. Levitsky and includes partners Peter A. Furci and Elizabeth Pagel Serebransky and associates Elizabeth Eleanor Burke, Andrew G. Jamieson, Daniel Priest and Helen Tang.

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