Top 100 US law firm Cozen O’Connor announced today that Martin Schrier has joined the firm’s Miami office as a member. Mr. Schrier, formerly a partner with K&L Gates, focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, and venture and growth capital investments. His clients include middle market private equity firms, other private investment funds, high net worth individuals and corporate clients. The addition of Mr. Schrier follows six partners joining Cozen O’Connor in South Florida from Edwards Wildman last week.
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Burr & Forman Adds Labor and Employment Partner in Mobile
Burr & Forman LLP is pleased to announce that J. Wilson Eaton III has joined the firm as a partner in the Mobile office.
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Ogletree Deakins Continues Momentous Growth in Washington, Adds Shareholder John Martin
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome John Martin as a shareholder in its Washington office. Martin is the third shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins’ Washington office this year. The office welcomed former National Mediation Board member Liz Dougherty in February, and former National Labor Relations Board member Brian Hayes joined the firm in January.
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K&L Gates Establishes Delaware Office with Addition of Four-Partner Team
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has opened its 48th office worldwide with the launch of an office in Wilmington, Delaware. Joining K&L Gates in establishing the Wilmington office are new partners Scott E. Waxman, Eric N. Feldman, Nicholas I. Froio, and Christina M. Houston, all of whom arrive at K&L Gates from the Delaware law firm of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, with a focus in the areas of alternative business entities and their utilization in a wide range of domestic and cross-border financings and transactions. Waxman leads the group’s transition to K&L Gates.
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Sedgwick Opens Miami Office
On April 1, 2013, attorneys from Abadin Cook, a certified minority law firm, joined Sedgwick, establishing a Miami office for our firm. Abadin Cook’s attorneys are highly regarded trial attorneys and represent clients in complex personal injury and commercial litigation. Its founding partners, Ramón Abadin and Kimberly Cook, and three associates will join Sedgwick, establishing the firm’s 16th office worldwide and its second in South Florida. Sedgwick has an existing office in Ft. Lauderdale.
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Weil Advises on the Biggest Fully Marketed SPO on the WSE
Global law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that it has acted as legal counsel on matters of Polish, UK, and US law to Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. (BZ WBK), Banco Santander S.A. (Santander), and KBC Bank NV (KBC) in connection with the secondary public offering of shares in BZ WBK.
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Cooley Adds Boston-based Technology Transactions Capabilities
Cooley LLP announced today that Matthew A. Karlyn has joined the firm’s business department as a partner and a member of its technology transactions practice group. Karlyn, who will be based in Cooley’s Boston office, joins the firm from Foley & Lardner LLP where he was a partner in that firm’s information technology and outsourcing practice, as well as its privacy, security and information management practice.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Otsuka in its $825 million collaboration agreement with Lundbeck to further the development and commercialization of a developmental drug, Lu AE58054, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Paul Hastings Represents Brookfield Investment Management Inc. in $420 Million Offering for Brookfield Mortgage Opportunity Income Fund Inc.
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Brookfield Investment Management Inc. in connection with the completion of a $420 million common stock offering for the Brookfield Mortgage Opportunity Income Fund Inc., a newly-organized, diversified closed-end management investment company that seeks to capitalize on the recovery in the U.S. residential and commercial real estate markets by investing primarily in a portfolio of mortgage-related investments.
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Energy Regulatory Attorney Andrea Chambers Joins Ballard Spahr as a Partner in Washington, D.C.
Andrea J. Chambers, who advises energy industry clients nationwide on policy, regulatory, and compliance matters and represents them before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has joined Ballard Spahr’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Energy and Project Finance Group, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today.
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