Complex Commercial Litigation Duo Joins Crowell & Moring, Boosts New York Trial Team

Monday, May 14, 2012

Crowell & Moring LLP has added two prominent litigators to its growing New York office roster. The additions are Litigation Group partners Edwin M. Baum, a seasoned New York litigator whose practice is concentrated on representing sophisticated business clients in multi-faceted commercial litigation from Proskauer Rose LLP, and Alan B. Howard, a proven litigator and trial lawyer with over 25 years experience handling domestic and international litigation and arbitration cases from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

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Pillsbury Expands Corporate & Securities Practice in New York

Monday, May 14, 2012

Pillsbury today announced that Peter A. Baumgaertner has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice section as a partner in its New York office. With a broad, international practice spanning capital markets, infrastructure projects, commercial lending and securities, Baumgaertner is a perfect fit within several of Pillsbury’s strategic practice areas, including project finance, energy, capital markets and insolvency. He arrives from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and becomes the eighth partner Pillsbury has added in New York this year.

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Pillsbury Brings Prominent Securities Litigator to San Francisco Office

Monday, May 14, 2012

Pillsbury today announced that Sarah Good, a well-known securities and consumer class action litigator in San Francisco, has joined the firm’s Litigation practice. Good was previously Chair of the Litigation Department at San Francisco’s Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, which combined with Arnold & Porter on January 1, and before that was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

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King & Spalding Expands Healthcare Practice With Addition of Two Lawyers in Washington, D.C.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Donna K. Thiel, a healthcare lawyer with extensive experience in Medicare coverage, payment and compliance, and Theresa E. Weir, a lawyer specializing in healthcare regulatory matters, have joined King & Spalding’s healthcare practice as a partner and counsel, respectively, the firm announced today. They joined King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office from Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, where Thiel was a shareholder and co-chair of the drug, device and life sciences industry group, and Weir was a counsel.

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Duane Morris Adds Corporate Partner Pierfrancesco Carbone in London

Monday, May 14, 2012

Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Piero Carbone has joined the firm’s growing Corporate Practice Group as a partner. Carbone will be based at Duane Morris in London. His arrival marks the expansion of the firm’s Private Equity Group, already active in the U.S. and in Asia, into Europe. Duane Morris is the first law firm to become Global Growth Partner of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and is a founding champion of the Middle Market Private Capital Leadership Forum. Carbone joins Duane Morris from Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

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Simpson Thacher Represents JPMorgan as Financial Advisor to the Board of Directors of PlainsCapital Corporation in Hilltop Holdings’ Acquisition of PlainsCapital Corporation

Monday, May 14, 2012

The Firm is representing J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as financial advisor to the Board of Directors of PlainsCapital Corporation in connection with Hilltop Holdings Inc.’s acquisition of PlainsCapital Corporation. Hilltop Holdings Inc. intends to finance the transaction with $318 million of cash and 27.5 million shares of Hilltop Holdings Inc. common stock.

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Gilbert + Tobin Enhances Its Leading Melbourne M&A and Mining and Resources Practices with New Partner

Monday, May 14, 2012

Ben brings a wealth of experience in M&A and mining and resources. He was previously a senior Vice President in the Natural Resources Group at Deutsche Bank in Melbourne, where he advised on a number of high profile transactions including advising Tata Steel on its response to Rio Tinto’s A$3.9 billion takeover offer for Riversdale Mining Limited and Xstrata plc on its successful A$514 million takeover offer for Sphere Minerals Limited.

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BLP Appoints Arbitration Specialist Roman Khodykin – Strengthening the Firm’s International Arbitration Team

Monday, May 14, 2012

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) announced today the appointment of arbitration specialist Roman Khodykin. This partner hire will further strengthen the firm’s international arbitration practice, particularly those based or with business interests in Russia and the CIS. Roman’s appointment follows the hire of projects specialist Andrei Baev who joined BLP in 2011 thereby further increasing the opportunity to develop London based Russian related international arbitration work.

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