Patton Boggs LLP recently strengthened its Government Investigations and Litigation; Homeland Security, Defense and Technology Transfer; and International practices with the addition of Clark Kent Ervin as a partner in the firm’s Washington office.

Mark Duedall has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as partner in the Atlanta office.  He practices with the firm’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Group.  Duedall has represented various parties in restructuring matters, including acquirers, debtors, secured and mezzanine lenders, creditors committees, and other professional advisors.   He has also handled corporate matters such as acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and finance transactions.

Jamie D. Underwood has joined Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group, where she will spearhead the its top-ranked Section 377 practice.  Ms. Underwood is an experienced intellectual property litigator who specializes in working with clients to resolve Section 337 unfair import investigations and related enforcement issues before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Frost Brown Todd is pleased to announce Paige L. Ellerman has joined the Bankruptcy and Restructuring group as a partner in the Cincinnati office. Ellerman was previously a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, and is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. In addition, she is a founding member and the current president of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), a global networking organization that is “devoted to enhancing the professional status of women in the practice of insolvency and restructuring,” according to the IWIRC.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has represented Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), the largest publicly traded builder in Egypt, in a US$1.9 billion loan to refinance debt and support the creation of stand-alone fertilizer and construction divisions.