Mayer Brown JSM today announced that Nathan Dodd has joined the firm as a partner in Singapore. Nathan has more than 13 years’ experience in the Asian legal market, with a particular emphasis on the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. His experience includes major project development transactions in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa and he will be a core member of Mayer Brown’s global Projects group.
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Faegre Baker Daniels LLP represented Shanghai Alliance Investment Limited, a leading Chinese investment company, in the August 7, 2012, launch of the Oriental DreamWorks joint venture with leading U.S. animation company DreamWorks Animation and two other Chinese entities.
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Hunton & Williams LLP continues the expansion of its national corporate practice with the arrival of Scott H. Kimpelas a partner in the Washington office. Prior to joining the firm, Kimpel served as Counsel to Commissioner Troy A. Paredes of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Former United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan has joined Jenner & Block as a partner in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. Ms. Callahan is a nationally recognized privacy attorney, who has a strong background in consumer protection law. She will lead the Firm’s newly formed Privacy and Information Governance Practice.
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HWL Ebsworth has advised Alliance Resources Limited (“Alliance”) in relation to its recently established strategic alliance with ITOCHU Corporation (“ITOCHU”). Under the terms of the strategic alliance, ITOCHU will have the right to subscribe for an initial 14.9% shareholding in Alliance, or a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance that hold’s the company’s interest in the Four Mile Uranium Project. ITOCHU has also been granted an option to acquire a further 25.1% interest in the Alliance subsidiary.
Tags: HWL EbsworthKing & Wood Mallesons announced the recruitment of another leading Partner. Simon Meng joined the firm’s Shanghai office from Herbert Smith on September 1. This follows the announcement in June of the arrival of Dirk Walker from Dewey & LeBoeuf in Beijing with a team including Dina Yin from Linklaters.
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Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that Shashank Upadhye has joined the firm’s Litigation Department in the Intellectual Property Practice as a partner in Chicago. Upadhye joins from Apotex, Inc., a Toronto-based multi-billion dollar global pharmaceutical company, where he was Vice President and Global Head of Intellectual Property.
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Davis Polk advised Mailgun, Inc. on its acquisition by Rackspace Hosting, Inc., which was completed on August 29, 2012. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Hogan Lovells announced today that commercial trial lawyers Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller have joined the firm’s Northern California offices as partners.
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An international Morgan Lewis team advised Norway’s Statoil on the negotiation of shareholding and operation agreements for four Russian continental shelf field exploration JVs with Rosneft (Russia’s premier state-owned oil company), signed last week as a significant milestone under the strategic cooperation arrangements reached between the two companies in May of this year.
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