DLA Piper represented PJ Finance Company, LLC during its US$500 million debt restructuring. PJ Finance Company, owner of 32 apartment complexes with nearly 10,000 units, won court permission to restructure approximately US$500 million in debt. US Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Linehan Shannon signed an order approving the debtors’ reorganization plan.

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Foley Hoag LLP has added Derek Smith as a partner and Luis Parada as counsel, continuing the growth of its leading International Litigation and Arbitration Practice and its Washington, D.C. office.

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Cipriani & Werner PC announces the addition of a Construction Law practice group to compliment the firms’ existing State-wide litigation practice. David A. Scotti has joined our firm and will manage this group.

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Clyde & Co is pleased to announce that Devika Khanna has joined the firm as a partner in its international arbitration team.

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Bruce J. Casino has joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade practice group. Casino joins Sheppard Mullin from Katten Muchin Rosenman in Washington, D.C.

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Drummond Woodsum is pleased to welcome James Kilbreth as the firm’s newest Shareholder, joining the Trial Services Group. Jamie is an accomplished litigator and advisor who can navigate complex commercial and regulatory disputes. He was the lead lawyer for the State of Maine in the 1.5 billion dollar recovery from the tobacco industry. He currently represents more than 28,000 Maine public employees and public school teachers in a constitutional challenge to cuts in their pension benefits.

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Polsinelli Shughart welcomes veteran antitrust lawyer Mitchell D. Raup as shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and vice-chair of the firm’s antitrust practice. Highly experienced in his field, Raup has represented clients before the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and in federal and state courts nationwide. He concentrates his practice on complex matters involving antitrust and consumer protection law, class actions and government investigations, and antitrust issues in the health care industry.

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Baker Hostetler announced that Lawrence M. Sung joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Group as Partner in its Washington, D.C., office. He joins Baker Hostetler from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

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