Morgan Lewis announced today that Yasmin Tayyab, a trial lawyer who has served as national coordinating counsel in products liability litigation matters, has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in the firm’s Chicago office.
Tags: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLPChadbourne & Parke represented Enersis S.A., a Chilean electric utility company with operations in Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Argentina, in its recently completed US$6 billion capital increase, the largest in Chilean history. Enersis is part of a group of companies controlled by Enel S.p.A., an Italian utility company. Enel owns approximately 92% of Endesa S.A., a Spanish electricity generation and distribution company that own approximately 60% of Enersis. Enersis American Depositary Shares (ADSs) are listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Wendy Huang Waszmer, former assistant chief of the New York field office of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division, is joining King & Spalding’s antitrust practice as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
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The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce that Colleen Heisey has joined the Washington Office as a partner in the Health Care Practice. Formerly a partner in Hunton & Williams, LLP’s Washington office, Ms. Heisey focuses on food and drug law with a particular emphasis on advertising, promotion, and compliance counseling.
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Longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Fish has joined international law firm Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in its nationwide White Collar/Internal Investigations Practice. Fish has served with the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for 14 years, most recently as deputy chief of the appeals unit and previously with the securities and commodities fraud task force and the major crimes unit. As a member of Locke Lord’s Litigation Department, Fish’s widespread experience in insider trading, securities fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, embezzlement and other jury trials will expand the Firm’s capabilities in the White Collar/Internal Investigations arena and also provide valuable synergies with the Antitrust and IP Pharmaceutical practices.
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Continuing the expansion of the firm’s West Coast presence and nationally-recognized product liability and life sciences capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has added a product liability group to its San Francisco office with the addition of Daniel J. Herling and Michelle Gillette, who join as Members. The group builds on the thriving litigation, corporate, intellectual property and real estate practice the firm has established in the Bay Area.
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Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Alan J. Kessel has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, resident in the Orange County office.
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Latham & Watkins LLP advised Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova) in its Ps.7.4 billion (US$598 million) global initial public offering of common stock. The common stock, which was sold in a registered offering in Mexico and a private placement in the United States and outside Mexico, represented 18.9% of IEnova’s outstanding ownership interest, including overallotment options granted to the managers of the offering that were exercised in full.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Post Advisory Group LLC in the sale of a minority stake in Post Advisory Group, LLC to Nippon Life Insurance Company.
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Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce the addition of a distinguished team of state and local taxation attorneys to the firm’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, office. Joanne B. Faycurry (partner), Samuel J. McKim III (of counsel), Sarah G. Deson-Fried (counsel) and Jackie J. Cook (associate) all join Schiff Hardin from Miller Canfield P.L.C. in Detroit. They represent multi-state corporate clients—including Discount Tire, Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Masco Corporation—in national, state and local tax matters.
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