Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today it lead an international legal and financial advisory team representing the Senior Lenders ofAustralia-based Centro Properties Group’s (CNP) in finalizing CNP’s global restructuring efforts, widely recognized as one of the most complex and innovative restructurings in Australian history. The restructuring, finalized after four years of discussions and interim arrangements, combines a novel debt-for-equity swap with an aggregation of assets into a new real estate investment trust called Centro Retail Australia (CRF), integrating U.S.-style pre-packaged plan concepts into the existing Australian restructuring regime.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to announce that Douglass C. Hochstetler and Beth D. Jacob have joined the firm as partners in the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation group working from the firm’s Chicago and New York offices.  They each focus on patent infringement litigation representing pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman litigation.  They come from the law firm of Schiff Hardin, where both were partners.

International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Linda C. Goldstein has joined the firm as a partner in the White Collar and Securities Litigation practice. She will be resident in the firm’s New York office. Goldstein was most recently a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and a co-chair of its Securities/Derivatives Litigation & Enforcement practice.