Bird & Bird welcomes partner Brett Hailey to its London office and International Aviation Sector Group. Brett is recognised as a leading aircraft finacing and leasing lawyer and brings more than 20 years of experience in the aviation sector.
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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added highly-regarded attorney John Scalia as a shareholder in its Northern Virginia office. Scalia joins the firm from Greenburg Traurig, where he focused his practice on representing government contractors and technology companies in the Northern Virginia business community. Before Greenberg Traurig, Scalia practiced for ten years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jackson Walker is representing Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. in its deal to acquire Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. On Dec. 11, 2012, the two companies announced that they have reached a definitive merger agreement for Pernix to acquire Somaxon in a stock-for-stock transaction with a total equity value of $25 million. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter, is subject to shareholder approval and the satisfaction of other terms and conditions.
Tags: Jackson Walker, LLP | HoustonJackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Texas homebuilder Darling Homes in its sale to Taylor Morrison, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The deal closed on Dec. 31, 2012.
Tags: Jackson Walker, LLP | DallasPlease join us in welcoming John C. Devine, Jr., Esquire to our Harrisburg Office. John C. Devine, Jr. has extensive experience in representing the interests of insurance carriers and self-insured employers in workers’ compensation litigation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For nearly twenty years, he has tried hundreds of cases to verdict in the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation system. He has represented clients at all stages of the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation system from the Workers’ Compensation Judge level all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Armstrong Teasdale announces the addition of a new partner, Nancy M. Hawes, and two associates, M. Courtney Jackson and Jonathan R. Shulan, to its St. Louis office.
Tags: Armstrong Teasdale LLPUkraine’s state controlled oil and gas company, JSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, has signed an English law governed US$ 3.656 billion credit agreement with state owned China Development Bank Corporation to finance various individual projects involving the substitution of natural gas with locally produced coal. The investment programme is intended to help Ukraine increase its energy capacity through the introduction of modern technology, construction of new plants and the upgrading of existing infrastructure.
The Firm acted as U.S. counsel for BMO Nesbitt Burns, Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Barclays Capital Canada, RBC Dominion Securities, CIBC World Markets, HSBC Securities (Canada), and Morgan Stanley Canada as underwriters in connection with a public offering in Canada by MEG Energy Corp. (“MEG”) of 12,125,000 common shares. The common shares were offered in the United States to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and outside the United States to non U.S. persons in accordance with Regulation S. MEG intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to partially fund its capital expenditure program and for other ongoing working capital and general corporate purposes.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New YorkInternational law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has appointed Graham Wrightson as a Pensions Partner in its Employment and Pensions Practice.
Stephanie Yarbrough, an experienced economic development attorney and the former Director of Economic Development for the City of Charleston, has returned to Womble Carlyle.
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