Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, continues its lateral growth with the addition of Linda Jackson to its Washington, D.C. office. Jackson, previously a partner with Venable LLP and a former member of its Executive Committee, joins Littler as a shareholder and will focus her litigation practice on a variety of areas, with a particular emphasis on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower investigations, non-competition agreements and litigation, trade secret disputes and related business competition issues. As a first-chair trial attorney, Jackson has more than 17 years of experience handling cases throughout Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia.

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Hogan Lovells has advised the BBC on the sale for an initial price of £200 million of its iconic Television Centre in London’s White City to a consortium led by one of the UK’s leading developers, Stanhope PLC, and backed by Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Mitsui Fudosan of Japan. The deal exchanged on Saturday 14 July and completed on Friday 20 July.

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Leading national law firm Irwin Mitchell has reaffirmed its ongoing strategic drive to build a leading national business legal services team with the recruitment of two high profile Banking and Asset Based Lending partners, Andrew Watson and Jon Bew, from Squire Sanders, (formerly Squire Sanders Hammonds).

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International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented The Berger Group, Inc., a global engineering, architectural and construction firm headquartered in Morristown, N.J., in a $100 million financing involving a recapitalization and the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Financing of the deal, which closed June 26, 2012, was provided by JP Morgan Chase of New York.

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Whiteford Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Timothy M. Kotroco has joined the firm’s Real Estate & Land Use practice in Towson as a partner.

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Herbert Smith has advised the Haramain High-speed Rail (HHR) Consortium, which was recently awarded the contract to build the high-speed railway between Medina and Mecca, on its guarantee facility agreement with a syndicate of Spanish banks.

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that Sharis A. Pozen, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, is joining the firm’s global Antitrust and Competition practice in Washington, D.C.

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