Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Kathleen L. Brown has joined the firm as a partner. She will be based in Manatt’s Los Angeles office, spending significant time in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices.
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Former Health Care Fraud Chief Starts Lowenstein Sandler’s Health Care Litigation, Investigations & Compliance Practice
Lowenstein Sandler announced that Maureen A. Ruane has rejoined the firm to lead its new Health Care Litigation, Investigations & Compliance Practice. The practice will help the firm’s health care and life science clients strengthen their regulatory and compliance programs, as well as defend corporate and individual clients who become the subjects or targets of government investigations or enforcement actions. Ms. Ruane most recently served for more than three years as the Chief of the Health Care & Government Fraud Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. She was previously with Lowenstein Sandler as Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s appellate litigation practice from 2006 to 2010.
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Norton Rose Fulbright Advises Sumitomo Electric on Multinational Joint Venture for the Supply of Volkswagen Russland
An international team of global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze GmbH, a group company of Sumitomo Electric Industries, on a contractual joint venture with a Belarusian supply business. The joint venture was implemented for purposes of supplying Volkswagen Group Russia with wire harnesses. The project is a major step on enlarging the activities of Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze GmbH on international growth markets.
Tags: Norton Rose Fulbright | MoscowNorton Rose Fulbright Advises Yildirim on $425 Million Acquisition of Mining Companies
The Kazakhstan, Moscow and Brussels offices of global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright have advised Yildirim Group, a Turkish diverse holding group, on its planned $425 million acquisition of ferroalloy assets from OAO Mechel. The transaction was announced by Yildirim and Mechel on 1 August 2013.
Tags: Norton Rose Fulbright | MoscowEdwards Wildman Launches New Office in Istanbul, Turkey
The international law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that on August 22, 2013, the Istanbul Bar Association approved the firm’s application to operate as a foreign law firm in Istanbul, Turkey, under the name of Edwards Wildman Danişmanlik Hizmetleri Avukatlik Ortakliği. The new office will serve as the base from which the firm will advise a broad range of clients on cross-border private equity and corporate-backed M&A transactions throughout the Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa (CEEMENA) region and other neighboring markets.
King & Spalding Advises Freeport LNG in Agreements with Toshiba and SK
King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., in the company’s agreements to enter into binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreements (LTAs) with SK E&S LNG, LLC and Toshiba Corporation, each for a base quantity of 2.2 million tons per annum (mtpa), commencing upon completion of construction of the third train of Freeport LNG’s proposed natural gas liquefaction and LNG loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.
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Davis Polk Welcomes Return of DOJ Official Avi Gesser to White Collar Criminal Defense Group
Davis Polk is pleased to announce that Avi Gesser, an official with the U.S. Department of Justice, has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in New York. Mr. Gesser will work in our White Collar Criminal Defense Group representing clients in a wide range of white collar criminal defense matters and investigations as well as complex commercial litigation.
Tags: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New YorkDavis Polk Advises Citi on the Sale of Its CVCI Funds Business to The Rohatyn Group
Davis Polk is advising Citigroup, Inc. in connection with the sale of its Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) funds business to The Rohatyn Group, LLC. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013.
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One of the Country’s Leading Patent Attorneys—S. Craig Hemenway—Joins Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck continues to expand its intellectual property team with the addition of S. Craig Hemenway as a shareholder plus 12 members of his team. With a deep background in both patent law and engineering, Hemenway and his team will counsel clients on many aspects of intellectual property from identification, protection and management of intellectual property assets to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, enforcing intellectual property rights through litigation and providing infringement and patentability opinions. Hemenway was previously a partner at Dorsey & Whitney where he led the Denver patent group.
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Paul Hastings Represents Kaydon in $1.25 Billion Acquisition by SKF
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, is representing Kaydon Corporation (NYSE: KDN), a leading designer and manufacturer of custom engineered, and performance-critical products, in an acquisition by SKF, a manufacturer and supplier of ball and roller bearings, linear motion products, precision bearings, spindles and seals, for $35.50 per share in an all-cash transaction that values Kaydon at approximately $1.25 billion, including debt.
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