Armstrong Teasdale hired Steve Yu as a partner for a Shanghai legal job, according to a press release.
The firm is aiming to widen the scope of its work in Asia, with specific focus on intellectual property, dispute resolution and services for transactions and franchising.
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP client Procuritas, a Nordic buyout firm, held the final close of its latest fund, Procuritas Capital Investors V, LP, on 3 July 2012. The fund closed at €200 million following a five-month fundraising period and was substantially oversubscribed. The Kirkland team that represented Procuritas was led by private funds partner Kate Downey and included associates Alexandra Conroy and Aran Randhawa.
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Hogan Lovells has advised the Phoenix Group on the sale of annuity business with liabilities of approximately £5 billion to Guardian Assurance Limited. The transaction was announced on Wednesday 27 June.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal counsel to S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. in a $500 million private placement that helped launch S.A.C. Re, Ltd. S.A.C. Re is a Bermuda-based reinsurer whose founding investors include Steven A. Cohen and Capital Z. Partners III, L.P. It will target a combination of high margin property catastrophe and other property classes and low severity casualty reinsurance business.
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Mayer Brown JSM announced the expansion of its Corporate practice in Mainland China with the addition of Henry Wang and Billy Au. Their arrival will further expand the firm’s capability in the areas of mergers and acquisitions as well as public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Perry Sayles, a leading structured finance attorney, has joined the Firm’s New York office as a partner in its Financial Institutions Advisory Practice Group. Mr. Sayles was formerly a partner in the New York office of another international law firm and spent considerable time in that firm’s London and Hong Kong offices.
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Womble Carlyle announced today that Behrooz Shariati has joined the firm’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group. Shariati’s patent and copyright litigation practice focuses on software, computer hardware, networking technologies and industry standards.
Tags: Womble Bond Dickinson temp | Silicon ValleyOn 29 June 2012, Elster Group SE, based in Essen/Germany, announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with the British affiliated company Melrose PLC, pursuant to which a wholly-owned subsidiary of Melrose PLC would offer to acquire all outstanding American Depositary Shares amounting to $2.3 billion of the electricity, gas and water measurement and control provider Elster. Melrose PLC proposes to partially fund the acquisition by way of a fully underwritten rights issue. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2012, subject to regulatory approval by the relevant authorities.
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Venable LLP makes a key addition to its expanding Intellectual Property practice group with the arrival of IP litigator and counselor Adam R. Hess, who joins the firm as a partner in Washington, DC.
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International law firm Clyde & Co has today announced that it is opening an office in Tripoli, the firm’s fifth in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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