Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised DNB on the recent signing of a US$530m long-term loan facility supported by the Korean and Norwegian export credit agencies, KEXIM, GIEK and Eksportkreditt to finance the Odfjell Drilling rig Deepsea Aberdeen.
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Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC (Butler Snow) is pleased to announce that Shelly Gunn Burns has joined its Greater Jackson office where she is a member of the firm’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Group, and will focus her practice on product liability law, mass torts and personal injury law.
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Narayan Iyer, currently a partner with Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) in Mumbai, will be re-joining Linklaters in August 2013.
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D. Brian Reider, a business attorney in the Inland region for more than 25 years, recently returned to Best Best & Krieger LLP where his practice will focus on helping private-sector clients with general business transactions and human resource needs.
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Torys LLP is pleased to announce that Jerald Wortsman has joined the firm’s Toronto office as a partner in its Tax Practice. Len Nesbitt and Andrew Silverman have joined the practice as Counsel.
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Morgan Lewis announced today that a group of eight lawyers from the international law firm of Gide Loyrette Nouell will join its Business and Finance Practice, resident in Moscow. The group is led by partners Grigory Marinichev—the former head of the Banking and Finance and Restructuring Practices at Gide—and Konstantin Kochetkov, a leading project finance lawyer. They will be joined by six associates. More >>
Tags: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | MoscowKelly L. Whitehart has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Atlanta office where she will continue her practice in technology and intellectual property. Ms. Whitehart is the fourth attorney to join Miller & Martin’s Litigation Department since the beginning of this year.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced that Elizabeth Cundiff-Kluhspies has joined the firm as its Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Cundiff-Kluhspies will play a leadership role in the firm’s continued, strategic growth of its core practice areas and national platform. Since 2005, Cundiff-Kluhspies was Practice Development Director for the Americas Disputes and Competition practice at White & Case.
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On July 1, Nancy Erfle joined Gordon & Rees in Portland as a partner in the Tort & Product Liability Practice Group. She brings 23 years of wide-ranging state and federal product liability litigation experience to the firm.
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