Kutak Rock LLP, a national law firm with a large office in Denver, recently added nine lateral attorneys to the corporate group. Six of those attorneys joined from the boutique transactional law firm, Krendl, Krendl, Sachnoff & Way, P.C. and bring the total number of attorneys in the Denver office to 82.
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Vinson & Elkins advised China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec Corp.) in its joint venture with SIBUR, a leading Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company, in the development of the Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubber Plant (KZSK). Sinopec purchased 25 percent + 1 share of KZSK.
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David W. Gee, a lawyer with over two decades of experience advising clinical and molecular diagnostic laboratories across the nation, has joined the health care practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the Seattle office.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing online payments services firm Skrill Group in the U.S. regulatory aspects of its acquisition by private equity group CVC Capital Partners for € 600 million (approximately $800 million).
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Allen R. Wolff has joined Anderson Kill P.C. as a shareholder in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Wolff’s practice concentrates in construction litigation, insurance recovery and the nexus between the two, as well as complex commercial litigation.
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David A. Suess, who has more than 14 years of experience in tax law, has joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner in the tax advocacy group. He will practice from the law firm’s downtown Indianapolis office.
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Peter D. Cleary has joined the firm as Co-Head of its Asia Energy and Infrastructure Group, based in the Hong Kong office. Mr. Cleary will share leadership of this Asian practice group with Co-Head Yoichi Katayama, who is based in Japan.
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, continues to expand its top-rated national litigation team with the addition of John W. McGuinness to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Division. He comes from BuckleySandler LLP and joins his former colleague Donna L. Wilson, who came to Manatt in late July.
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Advocates Yael Baratz, Ilan Gerzi, Benjamin Waltuch and Chen Moshe represented OPKO Health, Inc., a multi-national biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, in listing all of the shares of OPKO on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (“TASE”) under the ticker symbol OPK. OPKO’s common stock will thereafter be listed on both the NYSE in the United States and the TASE in Israel.
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