Sedgwick has taken a significant, strategic step to expand its national natural resources practice. Nationally recognized natural resources attorneys Steven P. Quarles and David P. Ross have joined Sedgwick LLP as partners in our Washington, D.C. office. Their additions are the most recent in a series of expansions that have seen Sedgwick’s Land Use and Natural Resources Practice Group more than double in size in the past three years.  Quarles is considered one of the deans of federal natural resources law and serves clients all over the country.  He also is a leader on related federal policy matters and is frequently in contact with executive and legislative branch leaders on those issues.

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Goodwin recently advised Gibson Guitar in connection with a private placement of $225 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes, the first capital markets offering for the iconic musical instrument company in its nearly 120-year history. A substantial portion of the net proceeds from the offering was used to repay various debt obligations and streamline Gibson’s capital structure. Goodwin also advised Gibson Guitar in connection with its entry into a $75 million ABL revolving credit facility, which occurred simultaneously with the closing of the notes offering.

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Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, a full-service national law firm, announced that David M. Laigaie, a highly regarded White Collar Defense attorney with over 20 years of experience handling internal corporate investigations, grand jury matters, white collar criminal defense, health care fraud and other complex civil litigation, has joined the firm in Philadelphia as a Member (partner). He will lead Eckert Seamans’ Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense practice.

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Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce that Numan J. Siddiqi has joined the firm’s Orange County office as a partner in the Corporate group. Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Mr. Siddiqi was a shareholder at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C.

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Ice Miller LLP launches a new Government Law Group with a team of lawyers and governmental advocates with extensive experience serving clients with local, state and federal government issues. Led by former Congresswoman Deborah Pryce and Columbus-based partner John H. Oberle, the group will represent both the private and public sectors and will be a one-stop shop for governmental legal issues including: public finance, broadband development, economic development, election law, energy, ethics, gaming law, lobbying, municipal law, procurement, property tax complaints, public private partnerships (P3) and regulatory issues.

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The Firm represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, the lead dealer managers, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, the co-dealer manager, for the modified “Dutch” auction tender offer by Halliburton Company for $3.3 billion of its common stock.  The tender offer expired on August 22, 2013 and settlement for the tender offer occurred on August 29, 2013.  The shares acquired represented approximately 7.4% of the total number of shares of Halliburton common stock issued and outstanding as of August 20, 2013.

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Ungaretti & Harris LLP today announced that prominent gaming attorney Donna B. More and former Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) legal counsel William Bogot have joined the firm as partners in its Gaming and Government Affairs Practice. The move adds depth to the firm’s established gaming, legislative affairs, regulatory, litigation, corporate and compliance services.

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Mayer Brown, a global leading law firm, today announced The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (“Vinashin”), a Vietnamese government-owned company registered in Vietnam, yesterday successfully applied to the High Court for sanction of a scheme of arrangement with certain of its creditors pursuant to a US$600 million facility.

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