Matheson is advising Royalty Pharma on its $7.3 billion cash offer for Elan Corporation plc, the Irish biotechnology company. The Matheson team is led by Tim Scanlon, George Brady and Fergus Bolster.
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Dalton Odendaal Joins Harbottle & Lewis from LOCOG and the BOA
Harbottle & Lewis is delighted to announce that Dalton Odendaal has re-joined the firm as a Partner. For the last six years Dalton has been working on the Olympic Games with LOCOG and the BOA.
KhattarWong Names Leading Criminal Lawyer Shashi Nathan As Partner in Criminal Litigation
KhattarWong LLP announces the appointment of Mr Shashi Nathan, one of Singapore’s leading criminal defence lawyers, as Partner of Criminal Litigation Department.
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Herbert Smith Freehills opens in Seoul
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP announced today the official opening of its Seoul office. The office opens for business today, 15 April 2013.
The world’s 12th largest economy and the 4th largest economy in Asia, South Korea is an investment market with significant potential globally. Free trade agreements with two of its main trading partners—the US and the EU—recently came into force. These provide for broad and deep liberalisation of trade in goods and services, including legal services, and permit US and EU law firms to open offices in South Korea for the first time.
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Orrick Again Expands Supreme Court & Appellate Practice
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Eric Shumsky, formerly of Sidley Austin LLP, has joined the firm as a partner in the Supreme Court and Appellate Group, resident in Washington, D.C. Mr. Shumsky’s arrival follows the addition earlier this year of Robert Loeb, former Acting Deputy Director of the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Greenberg Traurig Continues to Expand its M&A Practice with the Addition of Daniel Serota in New York
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, announced that Daniel Serota has joined its New York City office as a Shareholder in the Corporate & Securities Practice.
Serota focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and corporate governance matters.
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Brown Rudnick Expands Global Footprint to Southern California Combining with Litigation Boutique Rus Miliband & Smith
Brown Rudnick LLP, an international Am Law 200 law firm, announced that it is expanding to the West Coast by combining with Rus Miliband & Smith, a complex commercial litigation boutique in Orange County, California.
With an Orange County office, Brown Rudnick will have an important presence in the Southern California metropolitan area adding to the firm’s global footprint which includes, among other cities, Boston, Dublin, London, New York, and Washington, D.C. Brown Rudnick attorneys represent clients in a wide range of domestic and international matters including corporate, capital markets, litigation, international arbitration, intellectual property, white collar defense and government investigations, government contracts, securities and real estate. Clients include Fortune 500 corporations, emerging technology companies, hedge funds, real estate investment firms, family offices, and firms and individuals with international business interests.
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Morris, Manning & Martin Adds Benefits and Compensation Partner
Edmund Emerson III is the newest addition to the leading Tax Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP. Emerson joined the firm as a Partner in the Atlanta office, where he works in the Employee Benefits, Compensation, Corporate M&A and Tax Practices. He is the third Tax partner added in three months; MMM added partners Gerald Thomas and Anthony Boggs earlier this year. The firm now counts 15 tax attorneys in its Atlanta office.
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McGuireWoods Adds Former Louisa County Official and State Prosecutor to its Regulatory and Compliance Department in Richmond
McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Dale G. Mullen has joined the firm’s Regulatory and Compliance Department as a partner in Richmond. His practice will focus on environmental regulatory and compliance matters involving water- and waste-related issues, environmental litigation, and government issues affecting the firm’s clients.
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Morgan Lewis Grows National Products Liability Team with New Hire in Chicago
Morgan Lewis announced today that Yasmin Tayyab, a trial lawyer who has served as national coordinating counsel in products liability litigation matters, has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in the firm’s Chicago office.
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