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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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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James E. Stewart has joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. He brings to Honigman more than 30 years of experience in media law, intellectual property and commercial litigation.

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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the underwriters in relation to leading Russian mobile phone operator MegaFon’s $1.7 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). MegaFon’s initial public offering is the largest listing in London in three years and the biggest Russian London listing since 2007.

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Leading global law firm Mayer Brown announces the hire of James Taylor as a Capital Markets partner in London. James joins from Allen & Overy LLP where he was a Senior Associate in the International Capital Markets group. The hire is part of an ongoing, global initiative to further strengthen Mayer Brown’s capital markets offering in key financial centres in Europe and across the globe.

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Bird & Bird has further strengthened its international brand management capability with new partners Rebecca Delorey and Nathalie Ruffin who join the firm’s Paris office today.

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Shearman & Sterling has advised Sundance Resources Ltd in connection with the mining convention signed on November 29 by Cam Iron, the Cameroonian subsidiary of Sundance Resources, with the State of Cameroon concerning the Mbalam/Nabeba project.

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VLP Law Group LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its real estate practice with the addition of Tarun Chandran, who joins as a partner based in Chicago.  Mr. Chandran brings considerable experience in commercial real estate and real estate finance transactions to VLP.

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Chadbourne & Parke represented the Privatization Administration of the Republic of Turkey in connection with its sale of a 23.9% stake in Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. via a secondary public offering including a Rule 144A/Regulation S global equity offering.

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