The global law firm Jones Day has announced that three lawyers have joined the Firm as partners in its Silicon Valley Office. Wendy Davis is now a member of Jones Day’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, and Janet M. McNicholas, Ph.D. and Gregory P. Silberman have joined as members of Jones Day’s Intellectual Property Practice.
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On March 1, the attorneys from the top-tier trial and litigation defense firm of Brown Eassa & McLeod LLP will join Sedgwick LLP. Brown Eassa is a well-known civil defense firm, with a breadth of experience in product liability, class action, commercial litigation, mass tort, labor and employment, and environmental matters. Seven partners and their team of associates will be based in Sedgwick’s San Francisco office, and one partner and one associate will work out of Sedgwick’s Los Angeles office.
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Allen & Overy has advised its regular client, the Indorama group, on the development and financing of a USD1.2bn fertiliser plant and associated pipeline project in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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Linklaters is advising Japanese financial services firm ORIX Corporation on its €1.935bn acquisition of Dutch asset manager Robeco Groep N.V. from Rabobank. The deal is ORIX’s most significant strategic acquisition to date, as well as the largest Japanese outbound deal of the year to date.
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Hogan Lovells announced today that Gary Veron has joined its Government Regulatory practice as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Veron joins from Sidley Austin LLP where he served as counsel in the food and drug practice.
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Today, Michael Paddock, who has spent 13 years representing health care providers throughout the United States, has joined Pillsbury’s Health Care practice as a partner in Washington, D.C.
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Mayer Brown JSM is acting as lead international counsel to Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, the world’s largest builder of cruise ships and a major player in the naval industry, on its acquisition of a 50.75 percent stake in Singapore-listed STX OSV. The total value of the transaction, including the acquisition and the mandatory cash offer to be made in compliance with the rules of the Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers, will amount to approximately US$1.2 billion (€900 million).
Tags: Mayer Brown LLP | Hong KongBennett Jones LLP announced today that a team of 11 corporate mining and securities lawyers is joining the firm in its Toronto office. The group includes Senior Counsel John Sabine; partners Michael Melanson, Sander Grieve, Linda Misetich Dann, Abbas Ali Khan, James Clare and Ali Naushahi; and associates Elianeth Alicea, Jamie Au, Tiffany Canzano and Justin Park. This move will enhance an already formidable M&A and capital markets practice at Bennett Jones, and provide clients with exceptional substance and depth of experience in the mining industry. With this added bench strength in mining and the firm’s leading position in oil & gas and in energy infrastructure, the firm is more than ever Canada’s leading natural resources law firm.
In an expansion of its nationally recognized environmental litigation practice, King & Spalding has recruited Adam G. Sowatzka as a partner in its Atlanta office. Sowatzka, a specialist in environmental regulation and a former federal regulator, rejoins King & Spalding from Baker Donelson, where he was a shareholder. He was at King & Spalding from 2007 to 2010.
Tags: King & Spalding LLPKing & Spalding advised TSYS, a leading global payment solutions provider, in a definitive agreement to acquire NetSpend for $1.4 billion in cash. NetSpend is a leading provider of general purpose reloadable prepaid debit cards and related financial services to underbanked consumers in the United States.
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