The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that James I. Kaplan has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate Services Practice Group.
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Ogletree Deakins Opens 44th Office
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce the opening of its Richmond, Virginia office. The office opens Thursday with two shareholders and an of counsel. Future growth in the Richmond office is expected soon. Jimmy F. Robinson, Jr., who joins Ogletree Deakins from Troutman Sanders, will serve as the office’s managing shareholder. Elizabeth Ebanks, formerly a partner at LeClairRyan, joins as shareholder, and Tevis Marshall, formerly a senior associate at Troutman Sanders, joins as of counsel. Ogletree Deakins continues its dramatic growth in response to client demand as Richmond is the second office the firm has opened in 2013 and the fifth to open in the past year. The firm opened its San Diego office in January and offices in Berlin, Germany, New York City, and Stamford, Connecticut in 2012.
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Davis Polk – Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. Common Stock Offering
Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Inc. as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters of an approximately $90 million SEC-registered offering of 16,375,000 shares of common stock of Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as co-manager of the offering. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “SGYP.”
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Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC as joint book-running managers of the several underwriters in connection with the $117.85 million initial public offering of 8,418,000 shares of common stock of Chimerix, Inc., which included 1,098,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option in full. The common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “CMRX.”
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Leading UAE Firm Habib Al Mulla to Merge With Baker & McKenzie
Leading global law firm Baker & McKenzie is pleased to announce that Habib Al Mulla, one of the most respected and well-established law firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will merge with the Firm, effective 1 July.
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King & Spalding Advises Sadara on Operations and Maintenance Agreement
King & Spalding advised Sadara Chemical Company during the tendering and bid evaluation for an operations and maintenance agreement for packaging and shipping with Al Majdouie De Rijke Limited Company.
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Day Pitney Real Estate Department Adds Partner Jeffrey Held
Day Pitney is pleased to announce that Jeffrey S. Held has joined the firm as partner in the Real Estate, Environmental and Land Use department. A real estate transactions veteran, Mr. Held has been involved in numerous stand-alone real estate transactions and provided real estate guidance in significant corporate and financing transactions. He will be based in Day Pitney’s New York office.
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Hogan Lovells Advises Arris on US$2 Billion Purchase of Google’s Motorola Home Unit
Hogan Lovells is proud to announce that it secured antitrust clearance from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for client Arris’ proposed US$2.35 billion purchase of Google Inc.’s Motorola Home unit. With this final approval, the communications technology company has received all of the necessary regulatory authorizations surrounding the purchase. The acquisition is expected to close later this week.
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Clifford Chance Advises MGPA on Purchase of Two Office Buildings in Tokyo
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised MGPA on behalf of MGPA Asien Spezialfonds, which targets German-speaking institutional investors on two property investments in Japan. The investments comprise the acquisition of two Tokyo office buildings, South Shin Otsuka building in Otsuka and Shinjuku TX building in Shinjuku. These transactions are MGPA Asien Spezialfonds first investments in Japan with both transactions closing in March. The fund is launched on the administration platform of the German investment company Universal-Investment.
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Hunton & Williams Continues Growth of Global Litigation Practice, Nash Long Rejoins as Partner in Charlotte Office
Hunton & Williams LLP announces the further growth of its global litigation practice with the return of Nash E. Long III as partner in Charlotte. Long, who joins from Winston & Strawn, focuses his practice on complex litigation, including arbitrations, jury trials, bench trials, and class actions related to environmental, business torts, commercial contract, intellectual property, construction, consumer law and product liability disputes.
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