Phillips Lytle LLP, one of the region’s best-known law firms, today announced it has established an office in Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, today announced that it has added one of the foremost attorneys in energy finance, Michael Niebruegge, to the Partnership. Mr. Niebruegge will bring his expertise in financing oil and gas production and reserve-base lending to Cadwalader’s newly formed Energy and Commodities Advisory Practice.

Allen & Overy today announced the appointment of Tony Sparks as partner in the corporate practice, further strengthening its Equity Capital Markets (ECM) and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) offering in Australia.

The Federal Circuit issued a landmark patent decision yesterday, affirming the Northern District of California’s grant of Greenberg Traurig client Retail Decisions, Inc.’s (“ReD”) motion for summary judgment in its long-standing litigation with CyberSource Corp. The patent relates to processes for detecting fraud in credit card transactions. CyberSource had alleged that the innovative ReD Shield fraud detection product offered by ReD infringed the ‘154 patent.

The global partnership of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has enthusiastically approved the proposed combination with Minter Ellison Perth, placing Squire Sanders among the world’s top 20 legal practices. Partners at the firm in Western Australia voted earlier this month to join Squire Sanders’ global legal practice. The combination will take effect by October.

Time Warner Cable Inc. has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Insight Communications Co. for $3 billion in cash in its biggest acquisition since the 2009 spinoff from Time Warner Inc. The deal, reported in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, joins two of the ten largest U.S. cable operators by subscribers, and is expected to result in cost savings of about $100 million through programming expense savings and other cost reductions. Insight Communications is owned by the Carlyle Group, MidOcean Partners and Crestview Partners.