Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Guy N. Molinari has joined the firm’s New York office. Mr. Molinari will be a partner on the Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Team within the firm’s Corporate, Finance, & Real Estate Department.
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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that it is expanding its platform with a new office in Minneapolis, the firm’s first office in the state. The office, which is Dykema’s 12th nationwide, will be anchored by top corporate and commercial lawyer Joe Roach, who joins from Briggs and Morgan, and by top intellectual property lawyer Reed Heimbecher, formerly of St. Jude Medical. Dykema’s new office will be located in the Wells Fargo Center.
Tags: Dykema Gossett PLLCChadbourne & Parke LLP represented the sponsors, GDF SUEZ, the French utility company, and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. Ltd., on the successful $990 million project financing raised by Japanese Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) and a group of commercial banks composed of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Mizuho Corporate Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointments of two leading healthcare lawyers, Dale Van Demark and Jason B. Caron, as partners in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. The two partners, who join from a leading health law firm, add further strength to McDermott’s top-ranked Health Industry Advisory Practice Group.
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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that Li Li has joined its Beijing office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice group.
Tags: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP | BeijingInternational law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has advised longstanding client Advent International on its preferred securities investment into InverCap Holdings, whose main subsidiary, Afore InverCap, is the largest independent mandatory pension fund administrator in Mexico.
Tags: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLPOn January 2, 2013, Weil obtained a significant victory on behalf of its clients, former independent directors of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., when the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed all claims against them in the shareholder class action In re Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Securities Litigation. Weil represents five of the seven former directors and has acted as lead counsel for all of the defendant directors named in the suit.
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Hogan Lovells announced today that Charles M. “Chuck” Clapton has joined its Health practice in Washington, D.C. as a partner.
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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of federal prosecutor Glen G. McGorty to its New York office. Most recently, McGorty served as a senior assistant United States attorney (AUSA) in the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), and senior trial counsel in the SDNY’s Public Corruption Unit. He joins Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. A proven trial lawyer, McGorty has been lead counsel in 15 federal jury trials, and he has briefed and argued over a dozen cases to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP announced that Martin L. Lepelstat has joined its New Jersey office as a shareholder in the Tax, Trusts & Estates Practice. This move is part of the New Jersey office’s effort to grow its transactional practices.
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