Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that experienced Houston securities trial attorney James Edward Maloney has joined the firm as a Partner.
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Project Finance Partner Kelly Malone Joins King & Spalding in Singapore
King & Spalding has recruited Kelly Malone, a specialist in cross-border development and financing of major energy projects, as a partner in its energy practice. Malone will be based in King & Spalding’s Singapore office. He joins from the Singapore office of leading Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein, where he was a partner and head of that firm’s global projects team. Malone is bringing with him a team of two senior lawyers and an associate.
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Former Freddie Mac Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Robert Bostrom Joins Greenberg Traurig
Former Freddie Mac Mac’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Robert E. Bostrom has joined the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s New York City office as a shareholder in the Corporate & Securities and Financial Institutions practices. Bostrom joins from his position as Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions and Fund sector at SNR Denton. There he also led that firm’s corporate governance, board advisory and crises management practice and was part of the Dodd-Frank special situations team.
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Duane Morris & Selvam Toasts Client Heineken’s $4.6 Billion Takeover Bid for Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd.
On November 15, 2012, Heineken N.V. closed its S$5.6 billion ($4.6 billion) takeover bid for Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd. (APBL), acquiring an additional 40-percent stake in the joint venture from its partner Fraser & Neave Ltd, a Singapore-based conglomerate. Duane Morris & Selvam, a joint law venture with U.S.-based international law firm Duane Morris LLP, acted for Heineken in the complex and widely followed transaction, which consolidates a controlling interest in APBL for the Amsterdam-based brewer of approximately 95 percent. The transaction marks one of the largest of its kind in Singapore this year.
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International Trade Attorney Jeremy Zucker Joins Dechert as Partner in Washington, D.C.
International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Jeremy B. Zucker has joined the firm as a partner in the International Trade practice in Washington, D.C. Zucker was most recently a partner at Hogan Lovells LLP.
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Baker & McKenzie Advises Credit Suisse on Sale of Largest Office Building in Switzerland
Global law firm Baker & McKenzie has today closed the largest ever real estate deal relating to a single property in Switzerland.
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Fried Frank Expands International Dispute Resolution Capabilities With Addition of Prominent International Arbitration Lawyer Justin Michaelson
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Justin Michaelson has joined the Firm’s international disputes group, resident in the London office.
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Todd R. Seelman Joins Lathrop & Gage LLP as a Partner
Lathrop & Gage LLP announced today that Todd R. Seelman has joined the firm as a partner. He will concentrate his practice on labor and employment and antitrust, and will be located in the firm’s Denver office. Seelman will co-chair Lathrop & Gage’s antitrust practice group.
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Choate Adds 14-Person Private Client Practice to its Wealth Management Group
Choate today announced that the Private Client Practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP has joined Choate’s industry-leading Wealth Management Group. On November 13, Choate announced that the four partners from WilmerHale’s Private Client Practice – Jennifer C. Snyder, Nan Giner, Michael L. Fay and Brian W. Monnich – would join the firm. Effective today, those four partners, plus three associates from WilmerHale’s Private Client Practice – Jessica L. Lambert, Brooke L. Manfredi and Courtney Carr – and seven related professional staff have joined Choate’s Wealth Management Group.
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