Holland & Hart LLP is pleased to announce the addition of partner Kevin Murray, and associates Nicole Squires, Ashley Peck, and Jennifer Horne to the firm’s Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources group. All four are based out of the firm’s Salt Lake City office, bringing the total number of Holland & Hart attorneys in Salt Lake City to 85.
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Orrick Rambaud Martel announced today that Charles Kaplan has joined the firm as a partner in its international arbitration and dispute resolution practice. Mr. Kaplan joins the firm’s Paris office from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP where he served as Co-Head of the Global Arbitration Practice Group.
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Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Tracey K. Merwise has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as Partner. Ms. Merwise, who previously served as Co-Chair of Severson & Werson’s Labor and Employment practice group, has more than 17 years of workplace law experience.
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International law firm Dechert LLP is advising Cosmote, Greece’s largest mobile network operator, on the divestiture of its mobile network operator, Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile EAD (Globul) and its telecommunications retailer, Germanos Telecom Bulgaria (Germanos) in Bulgaria to Norway’s Telenor for €717 million. The transaction is subject to relevant merger control approvals and is expected to finalize in Q3 2013.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented lead arranger Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., in connection with a first lien ABL facility for Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated, a global provider of air transport services. The total financing consisted of a $100 million first lien ABL facility and a $400 million second lien notes offering. A portion of the notes proceeds were used as financing for the acquisition of Evergreen Helicopters, Inc.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Los AngelesPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented UBS Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets and GE Capital Markets, Inc., as joint lead arrangers, in connection with a $300 million refinancing for ThermaSys Corporation, a manufacturer and supplier of engineered copper, brass and aluminum heat exchanger components and assemblies. The financing consists of first lien credit facilities for the purposes of, among other things, refinancing existing indebtedness of ThermaSys Corporation and the payment of a shareholder dividend.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | New YorkPaul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in agreement with NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, to establish a European data centre in the U.K. Scheduled for completion in 2014, the new data centre will be salesforce.com’s sixth worldwide and will support the company’s cloud computing services across its growing customer base in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Edward C. Marschner has joined the firm as a shareholder in New York. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate, Securities, and Tax practice group.
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Anna M. Gomez, who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) since 2009, has joined Wiley Rein in its Washington, DC office as a partner in the Communications Practice. Ms. Gomez will assume a senior leadership role in the firm’s Telecommunications Group, which is one of the largest and broadest based practices in the world.
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