O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that prominent UK entertainment transactions lawyer Lisbeth “Libby” Savill will be joining the Firm in August as a partner in the Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice. She will be based in O’Melveny’s London office. Savill is the former head of Olswang LLP’s Film and Television team.“
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The California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) announced today that, in cooperation with the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, financial close has been reached on the Presidio Parkway Project public-private partnership (“P3”). A Nossaman team, led by Barney Allison, advised Caltrans on the procurement, financing and contracts for the project. The $1.1 billion deal will be the first transportation P3 in California under the recently enacted P3 statute, Streets and Highways Code section 143, and only the third highway project developed through an availability payment structure.
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DLA Piper secured a significant victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for Inergy, L.P. and its subsidiary Central New York Oil And Gas Company, L.L.C. (CNYOG) in an important case that clears the way for the development of the company’s $257 million Marcellus Shale gas pipeline project.
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Harry Clark and Clark McFadden for Washington legal jobs, according to a press release.
Clark comes aboard as a partner while McFadden joins the firm as a senior counsel. The two attorneys joined the international law firm after leaving Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Tags: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe recently hired Dmitry Gubarev and Leo Batalov to serve as partners in Moscow legal jobs, according to a press release.
Gubarev joins the banking and debt capital markets group with a focus on finance, banking, transactions, and capital markets.
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Patton Boggs LLP is strengthening its M&A, Capital Markets, Litigation, Energy and Islamic Finance practices with the addition of eight professionals formerly affiliated with Dewey & LeBoeuf. Five of these professionals will form a Patton Boggs affiliate office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, while two will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and one in New York.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Ellen L. Darling and Brendan M. Ford as partners in the firm’s Orange County office. Darling, Ford, and three associates join K&L Gates’ product liability practice from Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
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Holland & Knight announced today that it has expanded its Litigation Practice Group in Boston with the addition of David G. Hetzel and Austin P. Olney as partners. Both come to the firm from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, where Mr. Hetzel was co-chair of the Energy Litigation Group and Mr. Olney was managing partner of the Boston office.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Sarah K. Gagan has joined the firm’s Boston office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Gagan brings more than a decade of experience advising both public and private clients across a number of industries including technology, financial services, consumer products and government agencies.
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Baker & McKenzie has advised on the establishment of a global relationship between the Goodman Group (ASX: GMG) and Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund (EPF). The global relationship has this week completed an initial investment in six logistics assets in Australia.
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