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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Global law firm White & Case LLP has strengthened its practice in Kazakhstan by opening a new office in the capital Astana.
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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on FireEye, Inc.’s $303.5 million initial public offering. FireEye, a California-based technology company, invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. FireEye now trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “FEYE.”
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DLA Piper has appointed Horace Lam as partner to its Intellectual Property & Technology Group in Beijing. Horace will also fulfil the role of Head of Intellectual Property, China and brings with him a team of four lawyers. Horace and his team will join DLA Piper in October.
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Nicolas Barzoukas, widely recognized as a leading lawyer on patent litigation in the pharmaceutical field and in industries related to chemistry, electronics, biotechnology, medical devices, lasers and mechanical systems, joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today as a partner in the firm’s Houston office.
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The Perth office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Alex Eastwood as a partner in the energy, infrastructure and resources practice. Previously, Eastwood served as General Counsel with Gryphon Minerals Ltd.
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