Michael Baniak, an experienced intellectual property partner, has been recruited by Seyfarth Shaw, according to the firm’s press release. The Chicago attorney brings significant experience in IP litigation covering patent, trademark, and copyright trials.
Tags: Seyfarth Shaw LLPGardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Erika D. Benson as a partner in the Firm’s Austin office, where she will continue her work representing a variety of clients in matters involving government affairs.
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Ashurst announces the appointment of Dominic Gregory as a partner in the Hong Kong office.
Dominic joins from Skadden, Arps’ Hong Kong office. He advises on a broad range of banking and financematters, including acquisition finance, asset finance, restructuring and project finance.
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Davis Polk advised UBS Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint bookrunners on a Section 3(a)(2) exempt offering by UBS AG, acting through its Stamford branch, of $2 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.625% tier 2 subordinated notes due 2022. The notes are subject to a contingent low-trigger write-down resulting in the full write-down of principal amount. The notes represent the first Basel III-compliant contingent capital to be offered in the United States.
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O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Mark Easton is rejoining the Firm from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. where he served as Deputy General Counsel. Easton will reside in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office as a partner and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He also will spend significant time in the Firm’s Century City office working with members of O’Melveny’s Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice Group.
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Hunton & Williams has been engaged by Hrvatska Elektroprivreda of Croatia to advise on an international tender for the design, engineering, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a new €800 million, 500MW coal-fired power plant at Plomin in Istria, Croatia. The plant will be built adjacent to the Plomin A and B power plants, presently owned and operated by RWE and Hrvatska Elektroprivreda.
Tags: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLPLeading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that partner Michael H. Baniak has joined the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the firm’s Litigation Department. Baniak joins Seyfarth’s Chicago office from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP.
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On August 16, 2012, IBM announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a Houston, Texas-based leading developer of high-performance flash memory solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cravath represented IBM in this transaction, which is expected to close later in 2012.
Tags: Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | New YorkCravath represented the underwriters, led by Credit Suisse, in connection with the $1.6 billion registered offering of high-yield secured notes by CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded operators of hospitals in the United States. The transaction closed on August 17, 2012.
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Peter D. Vogl has joined the firm as a partner in its intellectual property practice, resident in New York. Vogl joins Orrick from Jones Day, where he was the co-leader of that firm’s Global Trademark, Unfair Competition and Copyright Group.
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