Hogan Lovells today announced that former Department of Justice litigator Justin Savage will join the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner. For nearly a decade, Savage worked in the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he was Senior Counsel and one of DOJ’s leading environmental trial lawyers.
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Shartsis Friese LLP announced today that Richard S. Kinyon, Patrick McCabe, April Hopkins Rox, and Danielle T. Zaragoza, all formerly of Morrison & Foerster, have joined the firm to establish one of the premier family wealth planning practices in San Francisco. Kinyon and McCabe will be partners; Rox and Zaragoza will be Of Counsel.
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As previously announced last month, Thompson Coburn is expanding to the West Coast by opening an office in Los Angeles. Today marks the first day of the firm’s combination with Freedman Weisz LLP, a 10-attorney firm based in Century City.
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Caplin & Drysdale is pleased to announce the addition of three high-profile lawyers: Peter A. Barnes, who after 22 years as Senior International Tax Counsel for General Electric Co. (GE), joins the firm’s International Tax Group as Of Counsel on October 1, 2013; Anne J. O’Brien, an esteemed trust and estate lawyer, will be a Member in the Private Client Group starting on September 30, 2013; and J. Clark Armitage, a leader in the transfer pricing sector, who joins the firm on September 30, 2013 as a Member in the International Tax and Tax Controversies Groups.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), Brazil’s national bank for economic and social development and the primary domestic source of long-term financing in the Brazilian economy, in connection with its offering of US$1,250,000,000 3.375% Notes due 2016 and US$1,250,000,000 5.750% Notes due 2023, to be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as joint lead managers.
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Edwin J. Nazario has joined the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder. He will be based out of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Mr. Nazario was of counsel at Blank Rome LLP.
Tags: Greenberg Traurig, LLPCraig Richardson has returned to the international law firm Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the Litigation practice group. He had been general counsel of El Paso Corporation’s Pipeline Group, the largest network of natural gas pipelines in North America, for the past 10 years. Richardson will be based in the firm’s Denver office.
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP recently represented affiliates of KKR Asset Management LLC (KAM) in connection with the upsize by $300 million of the existing KKR Financial CLO 2011-1, Ltd. secured financing transaction, permitting the CLO issuer to borrow up to an incremental $225 million to purchase senior secured corporate loans. In connection with the upsize, KKR Financial Holdings LLC increased its residual interest in the transaction through the acquisition of an additional $75 million of subordinated notes. The transaction initially closed in March 2011 and was previously upsized in July 2011.
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Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce that Frederick R. Fucci has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the energy practice.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has made two new lateral hire partner appointments in Australia, with David Ryan joining the firm’s Corporate team in Sydney and David Lyons joining the Finance team in Brisbane, both commencing early this month.
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