Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP has recruited a litigation group to join its expanding D.C. office. Bonnie Hochman Rothell has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice and will be joined by an associate and paralegal. She will work closely with the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Finance/Lending practices.
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Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to welcome two new litigators to its Sacramento office. Andy Stroud, who joins as a partner, is well-known in civil, commercial and federal litigation, as well as intellectual property litigation. Landon Bailey joins our firm as an associate. In addition, Erin Sedloff joins the San Francisco office as a new litigation associate.
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Pre-eminent commercial litigator Janet Whiting will join Gilbert + Tobin to lead the firm’s litigation practice in Melbourne.
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Linklaters has advised the underwriters Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Halk Yatirim on Emlak Konut’s $1.6 billion secondary public offering, which has announced today. This is not only the largest share offering in Turkey in 2013, it is also the largest primary offering of shares across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa region this year. It is also the largest share offering in the real estate sector in Europe in more than five years.
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Shearman & Sterling advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and TD Securities as arrangers and bookmanagers in connection with a $1 billion cross-border financing for TransCanada Pipeline USA Ltd.
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Marking the beginning of its expansion into Northern California—the center of the nation’s high-technology industry and home to seven of the top 10 patent-producing cities—AmLaw100 firm Pepper Hamilton LLP today opened the doors of its new Silicon Valley office. The office will complement Pepper’s two existing California offices and give its top-notch Intellectual Property Department deeper roots on the West Coast.
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Carl Riley has joined the international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, as a shareholder in its Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) and Tax practices in New York. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Riley practiced at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York.
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Davis Polk is advising Shire plc in connection with its approximately $4.2 billion acquisition of ViroPharma Incorporated. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the tender of a majority of the outstanding ViroPharma shares and the receipt of regulatory clearances. Pending antitrust authority clearances, it is anticipated that the transaction will close in the last quarter of 2013, the first quarter of 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.
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Winston & Strawn LLP has announced Jared A. Hershberg has joined the firm’s New York office as a private equity partner in the corporate practice.
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Aaron Cooper, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s chief counsel for intellectual property and antitrust law, is joining Covington & Burling where he is expected to play a pivotal role in the firm’s global public policy and government affairs practice.
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