Recently, foreign-related litigation, arbitration and maritime experts Niu Lei and Li Chen Biao joined the Shanghai office as partners. Their admission would further promote the rapid development of the law firm in the area.
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Jones Day Paris Welcomes Corporate/M&A Team Led by Hervé Castelnau
The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce the arrival in its Paris Office of Hervé Castelnau as a partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Mr. Castelnau joins Jones Day from Norton Rose’s Paris office, along with counsel Thibaut Kazemi and Silvain Fock-Yee, and associate Alice Nepa. The team will work on all aspects of Corporate/M&A, with particular emphasis on technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) and emerging technologies, in Europe and Africa.
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Pillsbury Expands Finance Section as Clients Face New Regulations
Joseph T. Lynyak, III, a prominent financial services lawyer with an extensive career advising domestic and foreign banks, savings associations, mortgage lenders and other financial services organizations, has joined Pillsbury’s Finance practice section as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. Previously a partner at Venable LLP, Lynyak’s experience representing clients before agencies including the Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC, the OCC, the CFPB, the FTC and others will help Pillsbury clients address the rapidly evolving regulatory challenges facing the financial services industry.
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Highly Ranked Energy Regulatory Partner Joins McDermott’s Washington Office
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named Jeffrey D. (Dan) Watkiss as a partner in its Energy Advisory Practice, based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Watkiss, a highly ranked attorney who has particular experience representing power and natural gas companies on regulatory and compliance matters, is the second partner to join McDermott’s global Energy Advisory Practice Group in the last two months.
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IP Team Joins Nixon Peabody, Growing Firm’s Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, and Life Sciences Practices
International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has expanded its Intellectual Property practice with the arrival in Boston of a team from Foley & Lardner. Partner John T. Gutkoski, a patent and intellectual property trial attorney who focuses his national practice on the emerging technology and life sciences industries, was previously the Boston office chairman of Foley & Lardner’s intellectual property department. Michelle Flores also joins Nixon Peabody from Foley & Lardner as counsel.
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SNR Denton Expands Private Equity Practice with John Quattrocchi in Dallas
Foley Expands Adding Ana Francisco to Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation Practice in Boston
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Ana Francisco has joined the firm’s Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation Practice as a partner in its Boston office. Previously, Francisco was a partner with Ropes & Gray LLP.
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Former DOJ Office of Legal Counsel Leader Jonathan Cedarbaum Rejoins WilmerHale
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Jonathan Cedarbaum has rejoined the firm’s Washington DC office as a partner in the Litigation/Controversy Department and member of the Government and Regulatory Litigation Group. Mr. Cedarbaum returns to WilmerHale after two years in the leadership of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
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Davis Polk Advises Technip on Its Acquisition of Global Industries
Davis Polk is advising Technip S.A. in connection with its acquisition of Global Industries, Ltd, announced September 12, 2011. The transaction, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is structured as an all-cash merger at $8.00 per share, values Global Industries at $1.073 billion. The transaction is expected to close in early 2012, subject to regulatory approvals, approval by Global Industries’ shareholders and other customary closing conditions.
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Salans advised the bank creditors of insolvent automotive supplier AKT altmärker Kunststoff-Technik GmbH on the sale to its new owners. Boryszew Kunststofftechnik Deutschland GmbH, which belongs to the Polish Boryszew-Group, takes over AKT GmbH’s main plant in Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt, as well as its affiliate in the Czech Republic. AKT’s Spanish affiliate was transferred to Grupo ISN. The sales contract was approved by the principal creditors, six leading German financial institutions, integrated in a pool of banks.
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