Loeb & Loeb Expands Bankruptcy Practice in Los Angeles with Addition of Bernard R. Given II

Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Bernard (Barney) R. Given II has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditor’s Rights Practice. He joins from the Los Angeles office of Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, L.C., where he was a shareholder specializing in bankruptcy and commercial litigation.

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Alston & Bird Expands Corporate Practice in California

Alston & Bird LLP today announced the expansion of its corporate practice in California with the addition of Lior Nuchi as a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Nuchi joins Alston & Bird’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group, where he will build on the firm’s historic strength in its capital markets, securities, and mergers & acquisitions practices.

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Jose Lopez Joins Perkins Coie’s Growing Chicago

Perkins Coie announced today that Jose Lopez has joined the firm’s Chicago office as Partner in the Securities Litigation practice. Previously, he served as Partner at Schopf & Weiss and prior to that was a Senior Attorney at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement.

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Perkins Coie Grows New York Office

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Gary Eisenberg has joined the firm’s New York office as Partner in the firm’s Financial Transactions & Restructuring practice. He joins the firm from Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

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Fulbright Advises Sinopec in a Multibillion-Dollar Joint Venture in Several U.S. Shale Plays

Fulbright represented Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration & Production Corporation, a unit of China’s Sinopec Group, in connection with its purchase from an affiliate of Devon Energy Corporation of an undivided 33.3% interest in, and the development of, approximately 1.2 million acres of oil and gas properties located in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi, the Niobrara in Colorado and Wyoming, the Mississippian in Oklahoma, the Utica Shale in Ohio and the Michigan Basin.

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Clifford Chance Advises Mitsui on Further Acquisition of Water Management and Recycling Business in Mainland China

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Japan’s Mitsui & Co., Ltd., through Galaxy NewSpring Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company equally held by Mitsui and Singapore’s Hyflux Ltd., on the purchase of two of Hyflux’s water treatment companies for US$41.2 million. The agreement was signed on 27 December 2011.

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