Leading international law firm, Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW), is delighted to announce the recruitment of Partner Alexis Kyriakoulis who joins the firm’s Corporate, Projects and Finance practice in London, effective 8 May 2012.
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International law firm Locke Lord represents New Vision Media in its pending transaction to sell several of its award-winning local broadcast stations to LIN Television Corporation, a part of LIN Media. The approximately $330 million transaction, plus the assumption of certain debt, is expected to close by the end of this year and includes stations in eight U.S. markets that New Vision has owned and operated during its more than 20 years as a leader in the local television broadcast industry.
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Geoffrey H. Coll has joined Schiff Hardin LLP as a partner in the Litigation Group from Dewey & LeBoeuf in Washington.
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Adding one of the country’s leading authorities on political law to its government affairs bench, Venable LLP announced that Lawrence Norton, formerly General Counsel at the Federal Election Commission, has joined the firm as a partner and co-chair of its Political Law practice group in Washington, DC. Mr. Norton was previously with the Washington office of Womble Carlyle.
Tags: Venable LLPVenable LLP strengthens its highly regarded Financial Services Practice with the addition of former Office of Thrift Supervision Acting Director John E. Bowman, who joins the firm in the Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA offices as a partner. As head of the OTS, Mr. Bowman also served as a Director on the five member board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Transcend Services Inc., represented by a Womble Carlyle team led by attorney Sandy Smith, consummated its sale to Nuance Communications, Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $300 million.
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Lowenstein Sandler has enhanced its Commercial & Business Litigation practice with the addition of David S. Sager as a Member of the Firm.
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International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Simon Briggs will join the firm’s London office as a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice as of 8 May. He was previously a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf and worked closely with members of the firm’s new emerging markets team that joined Dechert from Dewey last month.
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Hogan Lovells advised longstanding client QInvest on the acquisition by way of joint venture of a 60% stake in the investment banking, asset management and brokerage business of EFG Hermes. This is one of the Middle East’s largest M&A deals this year. The deal was announced on 4 May 2012.
Tags: Hogan Lovells | DubaiHogan Lovells Lee & Lee has advised Trafigura Pte Ltd (Trafigura) on its equity investment of up to USD130 million in Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Limited’s (NOCL) oil refinery, currently under construction in Cuddalore in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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