Global law firm White & Case LLP is strengthening its Global Project Finance capabilities in Düsseldorf, Germany, with the addition of Dr. Jan-Holger Arndt as partner. Dr. Arndt will focus on advising financial investors, primarily in conjunction with German and international project finance and asset finance transactions. He will also advise on restructurings.
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Barry Mesher, formerly of Lane Powell PC, has joined the firm’s Seattle office as part of the Complex Litigation Division.
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A team of Akin Gump attorneys has been retained by a special committee of Chinese copper products manufacturer and producer of biodiesel Gushan Environmental Energy Limited in its agreement to merge with Trillion Energy Holdings Limited and Trillion Energy Investments Holdings Limited. Trillion Energy Holdings Limited is wholly owned by Gushan’s chairman and principal executive officer, Jianqiu Yu. He also currently owns 34.8 percent of Gushan’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Hong KongChadbourne represented WAMEX Private Equity Management L.L.C. on the formation of Multinational Industrial Fund II, L.P., which held its final closing in March 2012. The fund represents the second private equity fund raised by WAMEX, and was formed to make growth equity investments in a broad spectrum of sectors throughout Mexico.
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., a pharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes innovative biopharmaceuticals for serious diseases and medical conditions, in connection with its underwritten offering of 6,500,000 shares of common stock. In connection with launching the offering BioMarin estimated the offering would raise gross proceeds of approximately $249 million before costs.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLPDallas law firm the Kendall Law Group named Matthew Scott to lead the employment law section, according to a press release.
Scott, a 17-year veteran, comes aboard for the Dallas legal job that widens the scope of the firm’s employment discrimination practice.
Tags: DallasBoston is a city that is rich in cultural history. It has been an important political and economic center since the onset of the American Revolution, and companies continue to flock to the northeast to pursue business opportunities. Recently, law firms are experiencing a surge in hiring and legal recruitment as they seek to find legal professionals to keep up with the burgeoning American economy.
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Cooley LLP, a leading US law firm with deep roots in Silicon Valley, announced today that newly-elected partner, Christina Zhang, and associate Benjamin Qiu will join Cooley’s Shanghai office. Zhang and Qiu will be part of the international firm’s Business & Technology practice group, and will work closely with partners Brad Peck and Patrick Loofbourrow, who founded Cooley’s Shanghai office in December 2011.
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LeClairRyan is pleased to announce the addition of four new employees to its San Francisco office. Joining the firm as shareholders in the corporate and tax practices are Bridget McInerney Harris and L. Randolph Harris. D. Karen Maready joins as an associate, along with legal assistant Georgina M. De Brito, in the same practices. All were formerly with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP.
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The Firm recently represented the initial purchasers, led by Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, RBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, HSBC and Wells Fargo Securities, in the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $6 billion aggregate principal amount of notes of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (“Kraft Foods Group”). The notes will be initially guaranteed by Kraft Foods Inc. (“Kraft”), which guarantee will be automatically released upon the completion of Kraft’s spin-off of Kraft Foods Group to its shareholders.
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