Dinsmore is pleased to announce that Lori Landrum has joined the firm as a Partner in the Litigation Department concentrating her practice on assisting clients in resolving business relationship disputes, whether by negotiation or trial. She will practice in the firm’s Cincinnati office.
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Morgan Lewis today announced the opening this week of new offices in Moscow, Russia and Almaty, Kazakhstan, with a total of 42 attorneys, including seven partners and three international partners. The new lawyers at the AmLaw 100 firm previously worked together at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
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Phillips Nizer is pleased to announce that Zdzislaw “Zee” W. Wieckowski has joined the firm’s Corporate & Business Law Department and Securities & Private Placement and International groups as a partner. Mr. Wieckowski practices in domestic and international private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, public company takeovers and public-to-private transactions, as well as privatizations, restructurings, representing companies, shareholders and creditors.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced today that Matt Reilly, former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will join the Firm as a partner. Mr. Reilly will be a member of the Firm’s highly regarded Antitrust Practice, and will be based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
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International law firm Eversheds, in association with Mohammad Al Dhabaan has appointed leading corporate lawyer, Muhammad Arif Saeed, as a Partner in its Saudi Arabia office.
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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that John H. Fuson has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner. Fuson served as associate chief counsel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2007, where he worked with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, bringing enforcement actions on behalf of the FDA. He will be working with the firm’s Health Care, Product Risk Management, White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and Intellectual Property groups.
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Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that Bradley D. Wine, a highly-regarded government contracts lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Wine will be the Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts Group.
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Jackson Walker L.L.P. partners voted on May 29, 2012, to open a Texarkana office to be led by the Honorable David Folsom, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LP represented Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in two major real estate transactions, both of which were announced last week.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented First Gen Corporation (“First Gen”), the largest vertically integrated power producer in the Philippines, in its US$360 million acquisition of BG Group’s (“BG”) power assets in the Philippines. First Gen’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Blue Vulcan Holdings Corp., acquired the entire outstanding capital stock of Lisbon Star Management Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, through which BG owned 40% stakes in the 1 GW Santa Rita combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant, the 400 MW San Lorenzo combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant and the corporate vehicle for the development of the San Gabriel power project.
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