Gordon & Rees is pleased to announce that David Cornwell, executive director of the NFL Coaches Association, has joined the firm’s Atlanta, Georgia office as partner. Mr. Cornwell will focus his practice on sports and entertainment law at Gordon & Rees.
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Armstrong Teasdale LLP announces the addition of attorney Jennifer Byrne as a partner in the St. Louis office. She is a member of the Corporate Services practice group and focuses on general corporate issues, mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate governance and finance.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Ltd. (“Chinatrust”), as mandated lead arranger, on the acquisition financing for the leveraged buyout of Trimco International Holdings Limited (“Trimco”), a global provider of apparel labelling solutions headquartered in Hong Kong, by funds managed by Partners Group.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | Hong KongPaul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent, in connection with the financing for leading semi trailer manufacturer Wabash National Corporation’s (NYSE: WNC) acquisition of Walker Group Holdings LLC, a leading manufacturer of liquid-transportation systems and engineered products.
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International law firm Reed Smith has appointed Thomas Gierath to its partnership. Thomas joined the firm on 1 May, from Dechert LLP, to launch Reed Smith’s tax practice in Germany.
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Squire Sanders is augmenting its practices in Asia by bringing on four additional partners to two offices, filling Hong Kong legal jobs and Beijing legal jobs, according to a press release.
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Morgan Lewis today confirmed that ten partners will join the firm’s Business and Finance Practice, resident in the UK, Russia, and Kazakhstan. With the arrival of this group, the firm will continue to cement its presence in London—where it will have grown from 21 to 45 attorneys over the past year—and will launch new offices in Moscow and Almaty. The expansion brings to 24 the total number of cities where the international AmLaw 100 firm has offices.
Tags: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | MoscowGlobal legal practice Squire Sanders continues to boost its presence in Asia with the addition of four new partners. Jenny Liu and Xudong Ni have joined the legal practice’s Beijing and Shanghai offices, and Sin Kiu Ng and Kam W. Law have joined the Hong Kong office. The expansion of the China offices comes only weeks after Squire Sanders opened an office in Singapore, demonstrating its commitment to clients operating across the region.
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Leading international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has added three leading energy industry partners to its transactions practice across its London and Houston offices. John C. LaMaster and Marc Hammerson have joined the firm in London, and Steven Otillar has joined the firm in Houston. All three partners focus on cross-border energy transactions.
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