Yearly Archives: 2012

Morgan Lewis London Labour & Employment is Joined by Leading International Immigration Team

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Morgan Lewis has announced that Tracy Evlogidis, a leading international immigration lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in its London Labour & Employment team following her notice period at her prior firm, where she was head of immigration. She comes to Morgan Lewis with two associates, Nick Hobson and Gemma Goodhead, who worked with her at her previous firm.

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Law Firm Mergers: Employment Ramifications for the Individual Attorney

Written by Editor
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In the BigLaw realm, firm mergers are a fact of life.  While rumors that inevitably go unfulfilled seem to spew like a broken water main, chances are that any attorney spending more than a couple of years in a medium or large firm will find themselves on one side or the other of a merger.

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Goodwin Expands Private Equity Practice With Addition of Ilan S. Nissan and Christian C. Nugent in New York

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, today announced that Ilan S. Nissan and Christian C. Nugent have joined the firm’s Private Equity Practice as partners in its New York office.  They will focus on advising private equity funds, hedge funds, alternative asset managers and their portfolio companies on a wide variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity financings, strategic investments, restructurings and dispositions.

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Latham & Watkins Advises ETP on US$5.3 Billion Sunoco Acquisition

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby ETP will acquire Sunoco in a unit and cash transaction valued at US$50.13 per share, or a total consideration of approximately US$5.3 billion, based on ETP’s closing price on April 27, 2012. As detailed in the company news release, this combination will create one of the largest and most diversified energy partnerships in the country by expanding ETP’s geographic footprint and strengthening its presence in the transportation, terminalling and logistics of crude oil, NGLs and refined products.

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Kirkland & Ellis Advises Lafarge S.A. in $2.8 Billion Joint Venture with Anglo American plc

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP advised Lafarge S.A., a world leader in building materials, in obtaining UK Competition Commission approval for its proposed construction materials joint venture with Anglo American plc. The joint venture will combine both parties’ cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt and contracting businesses in the United Kingdom.

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