Philippe Manteau and Randi S.K. Rosenblatt have joined Schiff Hardin LLP as a Partner and Associate, respectively, in the Corporate and Securities Group from Watson, Farley & Williams in New York.
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Venable LLP Lands Prominent Real Estate Partners
Leading law firm Venable LLP announced today that three Real Estate partners – Mitch Evall and Andrew Schmerzler from Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP (WWBCGE) and Valentin Aguilar II from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (Manatt) – have joined the firm to spearhead the growth of Venable’s newly established West Coast Real Estate Practice. The experienced team joins Venable’s well-established national Real Estate Group, which includes more than 40 attorneys.
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Shearman & Sterling Advises SIGMA3 on Three Acquisitions
Shearman & Sterling is advising SIGMA3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions Corporation (SIGMA3), a Symphony Technology Group company, on its strategic acquisitions of APEX Petroleum Engineering Inc. (APEXPE), APEXHiPoint LLC., (APEXHP) and HiPoint Reservoir Imaging LLC. (HiPoint). Terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Jaguar Land Rover PLC on its offering of £500 million fixed rate high yield bonds due 2020. Jaguar Land Rover PLC, an indirectly-owned subsidiary of Indian-owned Tata Motors Limited (India), bought luxury carmakers Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover in 2008.
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Hogan Lovells Advises Wabash National Corporation on Its Proposed US$360 Million Acquisition of Walker Group Holdings
Hogan Lovells announced today that a team of its lawyers is advising Wabash National Corporation, one of the leading manufacturers of semi-trailers in North America, on its proposed US$360 million acquisition of Walker Group Holdings LLC, a manufacturer of liquid-transportation systems and engineered products.
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Former U.S. Chamber Regulatory Counsel Joins Dinsmore
Reed D. Rubinstein, former Senior Counsel and Regulatory Committee Executive at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has joined Dinsmore’s Washington, D.C. office. He joins the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department, focusing his practice on regulatory and federal advocacy matters.
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Sutherland Expands New York Insurance Practice with Addition of Six Partners
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announced today that the firm is significantly expanding its insurance and tax practices by adding six of the country’s leading insurance regulatory, tax and transactional attorneys. James R. Dwyer, Jeffrey H. Mace, John S. Pruitt, Linda A. Sciuto, Cynthia R. Shoss and P. Bruce Wright, are joining the firm’s New York office as partners. All six attorneys were previously partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
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Husch Blackwell Represents Algonquin Power Co. in $888 Million Acquisition
Husch Blackwell represented Algonquin Power Co. (APCo), the renewable power generation subsidiary of Toronto-based Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC), in an $888 million deal in which APCo will acquire a 480 megawatt portfolio of four wind projects in the United States from Spain’s Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A. (Gamesa). The deal was announced Friday, March 9.
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Kwame Raoul Joins Quarles & Brady
The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Illinois State Senator Kwame Y. Raoul has joined the Firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Labor & Employment Group.
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