Hogan Lovells announced today that Edward Kwok, Jennifer Lantz, Steve Levitan, Christian Mammen, and Clark Stone have joined as partners in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice. Kwok, Lantz, Levitan, and Stone arrive from Haynes and Boone LLP, and will be based in the Silicon Valley office, while Mammen joins from a private practice and will be based in San Francisco.
Tags: Hogan Lovells | San FranciscoHogan Lovells has advised Neopost Japan Inc. (“Neopost Japan”), a subsidiary of Neopost S.A., on its acquisition of the Hasler Division Business from Nisshinbo Postal Chemical Co., Ltd. (“NPC”). The transaction was signed on 30 July 2012 and was successfully closed on 31 August 2012.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that Ronald W. Zdrojeski has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. A commercial litigator and trial attorney with nearly 30 years of experience, Mr. Zdrojeski has litigated in 48 of the 50 states. His extensive experience defending businesses in complex litigation includes class action, trade secret, intellectual property, environmental and maritime litigation.
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Ashurst announced the appointment of Heiko Penndorf as a partner in its Frankfurt office. Formerly a partner in Mayer Brown in Frankfurt, Heiko advises on a broad range of M&A, finance real estate and capital markets transactions. He was member of the team advising US financial investor Lone Star on various portfolio transactions. He was also part of the team that advised Volkswagen Financial Services AG on its first residual value securitisation and Soffin on establishing the first German ‘bad bank.’ A licensed tax consultant, Heiko worked at Ashurst prior to joining Mayer Brown. Tax associate Felix Krüger will also be joining the team from Mayer Brown.
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Iain Sharp has joined our firm as a partner in the Singapore office. He will practice with the International Arbitration Team and Commercial Litigation Client Service Group.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of Mashhood Rassam as partner in its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Rassam will add to a growing list of talented, senior litigators in McDermott’s Silicon Valley office at a time when competitor-on-competitor litigation in the tech industry reaches an all-time high.
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International law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has advised Finstar Group on the strategic disposal of its majority stake in the Rive Gauche Group to Elshtere Ltd. Finstar Group remains a substantial shareholder in the Rive Gauche Group. The transaction was completed in August 2012.
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Holland & Knight welcomes new partner Mark A. Flessner, a well-known white collar lawyer with more than 25 years of experience, to its Chicago Litigation Practice Group. A former assistant United States attorney in Chicago, Mr. Flessner counsels clients on the litigation risks arising from government investigative actions, whether criminal, civil or regulatory.
Tags: Holland & Knight LLP | New YorkMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announced that real estate attorney Christina Braisted Rogers has joined the firm’s Atlanta office as a partner in its real estate practice.
Caplin & Drysdale announced today that Elan P. Keller has joined the firm as a member in its New York office. Mr. Keller will be part of the Corporate, Business & Transactional Tax, International Tax, and Tax Controversies practice groups. He was previously a Managing Director and Tax Director of Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. (“Macquarie”), where he oversaw Macquarie Americas’ diverse structural and transaction-based initiatives from a tax perspective, including matters relating to domestic and international M&A; infrastructure and leasing transactions; structured finance and capital markets transactions; transfer pricing; fixed income; and oil, gas, energy, and natural resource transactions.
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