International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP announces the arrival of Global Business & Transactions partner Xueqing Linda Ji to its Boston office. Ms. Ji will play a key role at Nixon Peabody, given her broad experience in cross border business transactions involving the U.S. and China. Prior to her arrival, she served as vice chair of Foley & Lardner LLP’s China Practice.
Tags: Nixon Peabody LLPChadbourne & Parke represented FOVISSSTE in the successful placement of its 13th mortgage loan portfolio securitization, known as TFOVIS, which amounted to US$404 million. The settlement of the Issuance on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV for its Spanish Acronym) took place on August 31.
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that H.H. Sean Wee has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice. Wee comes to Manatt from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York.
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Bruce G. Chapman has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s 70-attorney Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Chapman joins from Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz in Los Angeles. Earlier this year, Sheppard Mullin added two IP litigation partners: Ed Anderson in Palo Alto and partner Jill Pietrini in Century City.
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King & Spalding has recruited Boyd Cloern as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office as the firm continues to expand its patent litigation practice across the United States. Cloern is the fifth patent litigator the firm has added to its IP practice in the past 16 months.
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International law firm Eversheds has appointed SJ Berwin competition partner, Lesley Farrell as a partner in its EU, Competition and Regulatory Group.
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Reed Smith LLP, a leading global law firm, has added Victoria Holstein-Childress as a partner in its Financial Industry Group (FIG) resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
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On August 30, 2012, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which an affiliate of Carlyle Group LP will acquire its performance coatings unit for approximately $4.9 billion. Cravath represented Credit Suisse as a joint lead arranger of committed financing in connection with this transaction.
Tags: Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | New YorkHolman Fenwick Willan’s Sydney head David Coogans is moving to Hong Kong to join Howse Williams Bowers, a firm established earlier this year by three of Reed Smith Richards Butler’s founding partners in Hong Kong.
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International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) today (3 September) announced that it has hired experienced corporate lawyer, Julian Stanier as a partner in its London Corporate Finance team. Julian’s considerable experience will add to the firm’s growing domestic and international transactional capabilities. His appointment follows the arrival of corporate M&A heavyweights, David Barnes and Alan Paul earlier this year and the appointments of Cath Shirley, Lisa O’Neill and Justin Cornelius, which were announced last month.
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