Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Michael A. Glenn has joined the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. He was most recently a patent attorney at Glenn Patent Group (GPG), a Silicon Valley-based patent prosecution boutique he founded in 1992. Prior to GPG, Glenn held various senior in-house positions at Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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Cahill represented Deutsche Bank as administrative agent and Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank, and UBS Securities as lead arrangers in connection with the $375,000,000 credit facility comprised of a $300,000,000 Term B loan and a $75,000,000 revolver for Oceania Cruises, Inc., a provider of destination cruising services to ports in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the Americas.
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Jeff Weems has joined Porter Hedges as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. After years of working on rigs and as a landman, he has practiced energy law for over 23 years, concentrating on litigation. Mr. Weems primarily represents working interest owners in a variety of energy-related disputes. He also represents service companies, midstream companies and royalty owners.
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Burleson LLP, the largest law firm in the country devoted primarily to the oil and gas industry, announced today that Brandy Manning has joined the firm as a partner in its Midland office. The addition further strengthens Burleson’s Litigation Practice Group and reinforces its regional strategy of delivering a comprehensive range of energy-specific legal services to companies with interests in the Permian Basin.
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Simpson Thacher represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as lead arranger, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, in connection with a $250 million, five- year senior secured revolving credit facility for AOL Inc.
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Dentons US LLP announced today that C. Matthew Schulz has joined as a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Schulz advises employers on planning and implementing global transfers. He joins Dentons from Baker & McKenzie, where he was head of the Global Immigration and Mobility Practice in California.
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Burr & Forman LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Joseph “Joe” A. Vallo to the firm’s Litigation Practice as a Fort Lauderdale-based partner.
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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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