Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has enhanced its technology practice with the addition of two leading lawyers principally serving the technology and consumer electronics industries. Paul C. Lin and Kevin G. McBride are joining the Los Angeles office of the firm as partners in the corporate and IP litigation practices, respectively. Both lawyers come to Akin Gump from Jones Day.
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International law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher tapped Tomer Pinkusiewicz for New York legal jobs, according to a press release.
Pinkusiewicz joins the firm’s New York office as a partner and is set to resume his practice’s focus of capital markets and narrowing that concentration on project bonds and infrastructure.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that four partners, Michael Fitzgerald, Taisa Markus, Joy Gallup and Arturo Carrillo, have joined the Corporate practice in its New York office. The lawyers, widely recognized as leading global capital markets and finance experts, join from Dewey & LeBoeuf, where they were partners in the Latin America, Corporate Securities and Corporate Finance practice groups. Mr. Fitzgerald will serve as chair of the Latin America practice at Paul Hastings. The team has experience throughout the region and enjoys a particularly prominent position in Mexico and Brazil.
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Womble Carlyle continues to diversify and strengthen its Corporate & Securities Practice Group with the additions of partner Andrew Gerber and associate Janet Lowder. Gerber and Lowder are based in Womble’s Charlotte office and have been serving clients together for several years, most recently at K&L Gates.
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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Evercore Partners, advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., in the partnership’s $480 million acquisition of Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P. from Cheniere Energy, Inc. and in the sale of $500 million newly issued Class B PIK Units to Cheniere Energy, Inc.
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Adams and Reese LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Partner Lynn Welter Sherman and Special Counsel Tiffany DiIorio, both previously creditors’ rights and bankruptcy attorneys with the law firm of Shutts & Bowen.
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King & Wood Mallesons has advised Hong Kong-listed China Resources Gas Group Limited (CRG) on its US$237.7 million acquisition of AEI China Gas Ltd.
Tags: King & Wood Mallesons | Hong KongBell Nunnally & Martin LLP has added R. Barrett Richards as a partner and member of the Heath Care, Tax and Private Clients and Estate Planning practices. Richards joins the firm with more than 30 years of experience, most recently with his own firm.
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Davis Polk is advising Crestview Partners in connection with its $100 million investment in Silver Creek Oil & Gas, LLC.
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Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Charles Landgraf has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington office. Mr. Landgraf brings his significant experience as a Washington legislative practitioner and was recently named one of Washingtonian’s “Best Lawyers” in 2011-2012. He is widely considered one of the top insurance lawyers in Washington.
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