Law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) has announced that eight attorneys have joined the Intellectual Property Practice in Washington, D.C. The group, comprised of three partners, three counsel and two associates, comes to SGR from the Washington, D.C. office of Murphy & King, P.C.Partner Edward A. Pennington will head the Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
Tags: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLPChadbourne & 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.
On December 31, 2012, after a contentious four-year Chapter 11 case, Tribune Company and its debtor subsidiaries successfully emerged from Chapter 11 protection. Chadbourne & Parke represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Tribune case, which involved approximately $13 billion in total funded debt and was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the American media industry. When Tribune filed for reorganization, it owned eight newspapers (including The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune), 23 television stations and the Chicago Cubs.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Guangdong Nan Yue Logistics Company Limited (“Nan Yue Logistics”), a leading expressway and integrated logistics services provider in China’s Guangdong Province, on its acquisition of the entire interest in Guangdong Vehicles Transportation Group Company Limited (“Guangdong Vehicles Transportation”) from Guangdong Provincial Communication Group Company Limited (“GCGC”). Guangdong Vehicles Transportation is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nan Yue Logistics.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong KongPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented RXR Realty, a leading real estate operating and investment company in the New York Tri-State area, as a borrower in the $80 million refinancing of University Square and a $15 million refinancing of Campus Drive, which together form an office park located in Princeton, NJ.
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Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P. (BGM) combined its law practice with Schiff Hardin’s law practice on January 1, 2013, and will operate under the name Schiff Hardin LLP. BGM is a Washington-based law firm focused on regulatory issues affecting the electric energy and natural gas industries and represents clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), other federal agencies and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. BGM attorneys and staff are joining Schiff Hardin’s Washington office. The experience and knowledge of the combined group of attorneys give Schiff Hardin a powerful capability to represent clients in regulatory matters before federal agencies and state utility regulatory commissions. Schiff Hardin now totals nearly 400 attorneys across the firm’s nine offices located throughout the United States.
Tags: Schiff Hardin LLPLaura C. Brutman has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP New York office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Dickstein Shapiro LLP in New York.
Tags: Schiff Hardin LLP | New YorkDuane H. Mathiowetz has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP San Francisco office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco.
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Erica Wilson, an experienced litigator with a track record of success representing clients in complex patent and other technology-related matters, has joined the expanding IP litigation practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLC. Wilson joins the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office.
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O’Melveny & Myers LLP advised the independent committee of ShangPharma Corporation, a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, in a merger agreement to take the company private.
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