In an expansion of its litigation practice, law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has announced the addition of one of the country’s leading financial services regulatory litigators, Charles Roberts, as a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Group, based in London.
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HWL Ebsworth has announced that Harry Cormack has joined the firm’s Banking & Financial Services Group in Sydney.
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Lawyers from K&L Gates LLP recently represented Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, on the acquisition of Celerant Consulting, a global leader in business operations consulting. The K&L Gates team was led by London corporate partner Paul Tetlow with support from London corporate senior associate Tom Wallace, London partner Ian Fraser (tax and employee compensation), London senior associate Frank Thompson (warranty and indemnity insurance policy), and Washington, D.C., partner Mike O’Neil (U.S. federal filings).
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Bird & Bird welcomes partner Brett Hailey to its London office and International Aviation Sector Group. Brett is recognised as a leading aircraft finacing and leasing lawyer and brings more than 20 years of experience in the aviation sector.
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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added highly-regarded attorney John Scalia as a shareholder in its Northern Virginia office. Scalia joins the firm from Greenburg Traurig, where he focused his practice on representing government contractors and technology companies in the Northern Virginia business community. Before Greenberg Traurig, Scalia practiced for ten years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jackson Walker is representing Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. in its deal to acquire Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. On Dec. 11, 2012, the two companies announced that they have reached a definitive merger agreement for Pernix to acquire Somaxon in a stock-for-stock transaction with a total equity value of $25 million. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter, is subject to shareholder approval and the satisfaction of other terms and conditions.
Tags: Jackson Walker, LLP | HoustonJackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Texas homebuilder Darling Homes in its sale to Taylor Morrison, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The deal closed on Dec. 31, 2012.
Tags: Jackson Walker, LLP | DallasPlease join us in welcoming John C. Devine, Jr., Esquire to our Harrisburg Office. John C. Devine, Jr. has extensive experience in representing the interests of insurance carriers and self-insured employers in workers’ compensation litigation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For nearly twenty years, he has tried hundreds of cases to verdict in the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation system. He has represented clients at all stages of the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation system from the Workers’ Compensation Judge level all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Armstrong Teasdale announces the addition of a new partner, Nancy M. Hawes, and two associates, M. Courtney Jackson and Jonathan R. Shulan, to its St. Louis office.
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