In a boost to its business transaction profile for privately held companies, Venable LLP announced that corporate attorney Ralph W. Hardy, Jr. and tax attorney Stephanie M. Loughlin have joined as partners in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
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WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Matthew Martens will be joining the law firm as a partner in its Securities and Litigation/Controversy Departments. Martens most recently served as Chief Litigation Counsel for the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Since 2010, he led the Enforcement Division’s litigation program, managing cases nationwide and supervising the trial unit of 40 attorneys in Washington DC as well as litigators throughout the SEC’s 11 regional offices. Most recently, Martens served as Lead Trial Counsel in one of the SEC’s highest-profile enforcement matters arising out of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that S. Scott Parel will join the firm in Dallas as a partner and member of Sidley’s global Private Equity and M&A practices. Mr. Parel is joining eight of his former colleagues from Weil Gotshal & Manges who have recently moved to Sidley, two of whom also are members of the firm’s Private Equity practice.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised VTB Capital on a RUB 14 billion concession project related to the construction and operation of the toll-road bridges over the rivers Kama and Bui in the Republic of Udmurtia. The project, which began in May 2013, will see VTB Capital provide a 15-year RUB 5 billion loan to the regional government for the construction.
Tags: Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | MoscowReed Smith LLP today announced the addition of a high-level team of three partners, one counsel and one economist from Dentons with a premier reputation in international tax and transfer pricing. The group is led by partner David Hryck, formerly U.S. Head of International Tax at Dentons, and includes partners Jeffrey Korenblatt and David Mason.
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Three leading practitioners of real estate finance and federal and state tax credit law have joined the Boston Office of global law firm Jones Day as partners. Douglas R. Banghart, Jeffrey D. Gaulin, and John D. Kelley were previously partners in Holland & Knight LLP’s Boston office. Associates Patrick J. Cronin, Sameer Patel, and Brian D. Hern accompanied them, with Mr. Patel working in Jones Day’s Chicago Office.
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Michael T. Larkin has joined Porter Hedges as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. He practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and corporate and securities law matters. He has experience representing companies in the oil and gas, health care, telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and professional services industries.
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Simpson Thacher represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the establishment of Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund LP, a private equity fund focused on infrastructure investment opportunities in the North American middle market, targeting the water and utilities, energy and power and transportation sectors. The Fund, which was oversubscribed, accepted capital commitments up to its cap of $1.65 billion. Stonepeak was founded by Michael Dorrell and Trent Vichie, who were formerly members of the infrastructure investment team at Blackstone.
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McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that the firm has opened a new office in Irvine, California. This is the first West Coast office for the growing national law firm. McGlinchey Stafford now has 180 attorneys in ten offices across the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Ohio and Texas.
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