Allen & Overy, through its association with leading local law firm Abdulaziz AlGasim Law Firm, has advised Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), on the successful closure of its USD1.75 billion dual-series sukuk issue.

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP is pleased to announce that the Firm has added ten new attorneys since the beginning of the year. The New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. offices have all added to their ranks, and the Firm has gained strength in multiple areas, including: antitrust, bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, complex commercial litigation, class action, consumer fraud, criminal, labor, employment, insurance coverage, intellectual property, product liability, securities, toxic tort, and warranty litigation.

Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added a group of three attorneys to the firm’s expanding Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. Two new shareholders and an associate from Seyfarth Shaw LLP—David M. Weiner, Judith L. Wethall and D. Finn Pressly—have joined Littler’s Chicago office. The trio brings with them extensive retirement benefit, health and welfare benefit and executive compensation experience. Their arrival follows a string of recent additions to the firm’s national Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, including Joni Andrioff (Chicago), Mark Grushkin (Los Angeles), Sam Stein (Los Angeles) and Dan Wille (Pittsburgh), who all joined Littler in the last six months.

Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Daniel E. Wille as a shareholder in its ERISA and Benefit Plan Litigation and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practices. Wille, formerly of Reed Smith LLP, brings nearly 25 years of benefits litigation and 23 years of substantive benefits experience to Littler’s growing Pittsburgh office.