Hogan Lovells announced today that Harriet P. Pearson, an internationally recognized corporate privacy and data security pioneer, will join its Privacy and Information Management practice as a partner on 1 August. Pearson joins Hogan Lovells from IBM, where she serves as Vice President, Security Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer. Pearson will counsel clients on privacy and information security policy and compliance as well as cross-border data transfers, data security incident response and remediation, and information and cyber security risk management and governance, among other matters.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented SunTrust Bank as the administrative agent in connection with a $235M asset-based revolving credit facility for the refinancing of Oxford Industries, Inc (NYSE:OXM), global apparel company which designs, sources, markets and distributes products for trademark brands including Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer, Ben Sherman, Oxford Golf, Arnold Brant, and Billy London.

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James F. Goedken has joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner with the intellectual property group. He will practice from the law firm’s Chicago office.

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Armstrong Teasdale announces the addition of litigation partner Tracy DiFillippo and paralegal Traci Burns to the Las Vegas office. Tara Baugh has been named office manager due to the firm’s growth in Las Vegas, where we currently have 13 attorneys.

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Ashurst has advised Goldman Sachs, Oriel Securities and RBC Capital Markets in relation to a US$212 million rights issue by Salamander Energy plc.

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Alan D. Minsk has joined Lane Powell as a shareholder in the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on patent prosecution, patent litigation support, patent portfolio evaluation and the related due diligence processes, due diligence for purposes of mergers and acquisitions, strategic portfolio development and management, patent licensing and the development of in-house patent programs for clients. His prosecution experience includes application preparation and prosecution for technologies that include e-commerce, communications systems, messaging systems, search methods, semiconductor processing, flash memory, imaging arrays, radar, lasers, signal and image processing, neural networks, adaptive control systems, optical computers and wireless data services.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised BNP Paribas and a pool of 200 lenders in connection with the rescheduling of Materis’ debt. Materis is a world leader in specialty chemicals for building and construction.

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