Shutts & Bowen LLP is pleased to announce that Eric Page has joined their Tampa office as a partner. Mr. Page is a seasoned litigator with experience in a multitude of areas, including real estate, land use, taxation and zoning matters.
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Hogan Lovells advised members of the Shah Deniz Consortium (BP, Statoil, SOCAR, and Total) on an equity option and funding agreement; and the Shah Deniz Consortium on a co-operation agreement, both with Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GMBH (Nabucco) and its existing shareholders (OMV, BOTAS, BEH, Transgaz, RWE and FGSZ).
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Jon Hanifan has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to lead its European hedge fund tax advisory team. He joined the firm today from Ernst & Young, where he was a director in the hedge fund tax practice.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Richard Ernest has joined the firm’s Dubai office as a partner. Previously a partner in the Abu Dhabi office of Clifford Chance, Ernest will continue his banking and finance practice.
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Benesch is pleased to announce that Richard Grams has joined Benesch as Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Shanghai office. He will be practicing in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group and will serve as Co-Chair of the China Practice.
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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, led by Global Securities partners Rod Miller and Paul Denaro, acted as counsel to the initial purchasers, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Canada and Deutsche Bank, in the issuance of $450 million 7% Senior Notes due 2021. The proceeds of the notes, together with a new $835 million credit facility and an equity contribution, were used to finance Bain Capital’s $1.55 billion acquisition of Apex Tool Group.
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The law firm of Sherman & Howard, one of the oldest and most successful law firms in the Rocky Mountain region, today announced it is expanding to the Southeast with a new office in Atlanta. The office will be led by attorney John F. Wymer III, a nationally recognized expert in Labor & Employment law.
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Alejandro García Villalpando has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the firm’s Taxation Practice Group in New York where he will focus on domestic and international tax and corporate matters. His work for U.S. and foreign clients will largely intersect with Akerman’s Latin American & Caribbean Practice, with an emphasis on the tax aspects of cross-border transactions.
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The Labor and Employment Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP has continued to expand its Orange County-based talent with the addition of Tamara Devitt as a partner.
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