The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce the appointment of Johan Kleyn as a Mergers & Acquisitions partner in the Firm’s Amsterdam Office. Mr. Kleyn comes to the Firm from Allen & Overy. In addition, the Amsterdam Office welcomes Gerjanne te Winkel and Floris Pierik as of counsel in the Global Disputes and Mergers & Acquisitions practices, respectively.
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Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated (“Cox Smith”), the largest law firm in San Antonio, today announced litigator Brent Bishop has joined the firm’s McAllen office.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Suncorp Group on its agreement to sell a loan portfolio containing the majority of Suncorp Group’s remaining non-core loan portfolio. A Goldman Sachs subsidiary is the purchaser of the loan portfolio.
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As reported widely in the press, Willkie client Rockwood Holdings, Inc. announced on June 16 that it entered into a definitive agreement to sell CeramTec, its advanced ceramics business, to Cinven, a European private equity firm, for €1.49 billion (approx. $1.98 billion). The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of 2013 upon certain regulatory approvals, including EU competition clearance.
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Allen & Overy announces the appointment of Vanessa Turner as a partner in its global antitrust practice. Vanessa will be based in the Brussels office, advising European and international clients dealing with EU and other regulators on merger clearance, cartels and other antitrust and competition matters.
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Richard T. Victoria has joined the Pittsburgh office of Gordon & Rees as a partner. Mr. Victoria is a member of Gordon & Rees’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance, D&O and Securities Litigation, Appellate, and Antitrust sections.
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The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP today announced the addition of a new partner to the firm’s London office. Robert Bell joins the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Client Service Group and will serve as head of the UK team.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP announced today that Julian Chung has joined the Firm as a partner in its Hong Kong office.
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Squire Sanders has boosted its market leading private equity practice in Russia with the appointment of partner Anton Rogoza, who joins the firm’s Corporate and Corporate Finance group in Moscow from Goltsblat BLP.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it led its client Lotte Chemical Corporation (“Lotte”), a member company of the Lotte Group and previously known as Honam Petrochemical to a complete dismissal with prejudice of a complex international Intellectual Property dispute in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division.
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