Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that John C. Ryan, a former partner at the firm, has rejoined Duane Morris’ Trial Practice Group as a partner in the Philadelphia office. Ryan joins the firm from ARAMARK Corporation, where he was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. He was previously at Duane Morris as an associate from 1999 to 2003 and as a partner from 2004 to 2005.
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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has advised Poland’s leading private television broadcaster, TVN, in connection with an offering of €430m high yield notes to finance the redemption of outstanding high yield notes. Weil acted as US and Polish counsel to TVN.
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Shearman & Sterling represented alstria office REIT-AG, the leading German office Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), on the successful refinancing of its syndicated loan in the amount of €544 million. The early refinancing significantly improves the overall debt maturity profile of alstria and leads to a substantial reduction in financing charges.
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Natalie Regoli has joined Baker & McKenzie’s North America Banking, Finance and Major Projects Practice as a partner in Houston, further boosting the Firm’s oil and gas capabilities. Ms. Regoli has extensive experience advising on the entire lifecycle of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, having recently served as the lead lawyer managing a $15 billion LNG facility in Angola, the largest in sub-Saharan African history.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charles J. Stevens has returned to the firm in its San Francisco office as a partner. Stevens, a former Gibson Dunn partner, U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney, was the founding partner of Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs, a litigation boutique focused on government investigations.
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King & Spalding has recruited Nathan E. Clukey as a partner in its tax practice to help expand the firm’s tax controversy and tax litigation practices. He will be resident in the Washington, D.C., office. Clukey had been a trial lawyer in the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice since 2008.
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The Firm recently represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, Goldman Sachs International, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, The Korea Development Bank and Woori Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., as underwriters, in connection with The Republic of Korea’s US$1.0 billion takedown offering of 3.875% Notes due 2023 under its shelf registration program on Schedule B registered with the U.S. SEC.
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Squire Sanders has significantly expanded its Financial Services Practice Group with the appointment of partner Tom Lennox, who joins the firm’s Sydney office with a team of lawyers from DibbsBarker.
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Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC, announced the addition of Tram N. Nguyen as a partner in the firm’s Private Funds group. Ms. Nguyen is resident in Stroock’s DC office, where she joins Robert E. Plaze, who before founding that office as a partner, was the Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management.
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Joseph E. “Jay” Spruill, formerly of Reed Smith, has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Community Banking Practice Area and Banking Industry teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Richmond Riverfront office.
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