DLA Piper has secured a preliminary injunction on behalf of its client, Chip Connect, a leader in the design, manufacturing, assembly and testing of printed circuit boards, against defendants, Coy Christmas, Calibur11 LLC, EinsteinModz LLC and BGRMods LLC.

Today, Middletons announced the arrival of Alex Roth, previously a partner at Herbert Geer, who will join its Banking & Financial Services group in Sydney. This follows the appointment of Richard Winter in July, formerly an in-house counsel at Westpac.

Dennis K. Moyer, one of Washington, D.C.’s most experienced real estate lawyers, has joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, as a shareholder in its Real Estate and Financial Services practice.

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced a significant expansion of the firm’s San Diego office with the addition of Raj Tanden, Howard N. Wisnia, and James P. Conley. Mr. Tanden is joining the firm’s Corporate and Securities and Tax Sections as a Member. Mr. Wisnia and Mr. Conley will be joining as Members in the firm’s Intellectual Property Section, focusing on IP litigation.

Baker Hostetler announced today that Barry E. Bretschneider and John P. “Jack” Corrado have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Group as Partners in its Washington, D.C., office. They join Baker Hostetler from Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Jerry has practiced law for more than 30 years and focuses his practice in the securities and corporate law areas. Jerry serves as outside general counsel to publicly-held and privately-held businesses and represents clients in a wide range of general corporate matters as well as with respect to SEC filings and FINRA applications, filings and compliance matters with federal and state securities agencies.

Shearman & Sterling is advising a consortium of 27 banks led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Mediobanca and UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking as Joint Global Coordinators in connection with the €7.5 billion rights offering of UniCredit. The transaction is the largest rights offering ever in the financial sector in Italy and the second largest Italian rights offering in the last ten years. With this transaction, the Italian offices of Shearman & Sterling have advised on three of the largest rights offerings ever completed in Italy.