Schiff Hardin LLP welcomes three distinguished new partners to the firm’s Corporate and Securities Group from Cozen O’Connor in Washington and Philadelphia: Ralph V. De Martino (Washington), F. Alec Orudjev (Washington) and Cavas S. Pavri (Philadelphia). While at Cozen O’Connor, Mr. De Martino served as Chair of the Global Securities Practice Group. All three partners are based in Schiff Hardin’s Washington office, but Mr. Pavri will practice primarily in Philadelphia.
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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that it has added Mark E. Thompson as a partner in its New York and London offices. Mr. Thompson will be a member of the Firm’s M&A and Private Equity practices.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Lewis J. Greenwald, has joined the New York office as a partner in the Tax Transactions & Consulting practice. Mr. Greenwald focuses his practice on providing international tax planning for multinational clients.
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Clifford Chance implements next stage in evolution of its long established Saudi presence with full integration of Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm transactional practices including two Saudi qualified partners with Mohammed Al-Jadaan becoming a special adviser to Clifford Chance.
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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced that it is taking the next step as a preeminent global antitrust and competition firm by opening a Brussels office. The new office is scheduled to officially open its doors by June 2013 and is the sixteenth global office for the firm and fifth in Europe.
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. continues to expand its San Francisco office with the addition of Robert E. Burwell, who joins the firm’s Corporate & Securities Section as a Member.
Tags: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. | San FranciscoWick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces that David Anderson has joined the Dallas office as a partner in the commercial litigation group. In addition to his 16 years of commercial litigation expertise, Anderson handles many intellectual property cases. Some of his most high profile cases include work for companies such as Medtronic, Inc.; BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting); Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.; US Synthetic Corporation; and Silver Point Capital, L.P., among others.
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Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that two respected environmental attorneys, John Daniel and Lynne Rhode, have joined the firm as partners. Both attorneys were previously with Troutman Sanders and bring considerable experience to Williams Mullen’s existing environmental practice.
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The Firm recently represented JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and Citibank, N.A., as syndication agent, in a new $2.8 billion revolving credit facility for Sprint Nextel Corporation. The new five year credit facility replaces the company’s existing $2.2 billion facility that was to expire in October 2013. The new facility provides supplemental liquidity for general corporate purposes and will be used to support the letter of credit required by the Federal Communications Commission’s Report and Order to reconfigure the 800 MHz band.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkThe Firm recently represented Nielsen Holdings N.V. (“Nielsen”), a portfolio company of AlpInvest Partners, The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Centerview Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Thomas H. Lee Partners (together, the “Sponsors”) in connection with a secondary offering of 40,814,884 shares of Nielsen’s common stock. The offering closed at a public offering price of $32.55 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the Sponsors of approximately $1.288 billion.
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