Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Stadshypotek on the establishment of its US$15 billion US Medium Term Covered Bond Programme and follow-on issuance of US$1 billion of 1.45% Covered Bonds due 2013 and US$600 million of floating rate Covered Bonds due 2013. These were the first ever issuances of covered bonds in the United States by a Nordic issuer.

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Increased scrutiny of mortgage servicers’ foreclosure practices during recent weeks – including accusations of inaccurate and fraudulent paperwork, self-imposed moratoriums, threats of lawsuits, and calls for hearings, investigations, and federal and state legislation, among much other activity – has left loan servicers across the United States scrambling to ensure that they have procedures in place to comply with applicable laws and to brace for possible challenges to their past practices.

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Not even Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney would suggest its recent associate hiring decisions are the sign of a trend or something the firm plans on repeating, but they are noteworthy nonetheless.

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Mayer Brown has advised investment company Mill Financial on its failed eleventh-hour bid for Liverpool FC, as US sports group New England Sport Ventures (NESV) completes its £300m takeover of the Premier League club.

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Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP announced that an international team of its attorneys assisted EasyDate plc, the UK’s leading online dating service, in recently completing the acquisition of US-based Cupid.com. The transaction was reportedly valued at £4.4 million (USD$6.9 million) and positioned as part of EasyDate’s ongoing expansion in 2010. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced its 2011 class of new partner promotions. The class comprises 35 new partners for the Firm around the world More >>

Partners Ronald B. Emanuel of Bryan Cave’s New York office, Laurence M. Frazen of the Kansas City office and Eric S. Prezant of the Chicago office have joined the firm’s Executive Committee. Bryan Cave’s Executive Committee provides oversight of the firm’s strategic direction and its principal policies More >>

Lahive & Cockfield, a top-ranked Boston intellectual property law firm, is combining with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a large East Coast law firm known nationally for its technology and science-related litigation.  The move expands services for clients of both firms, increases the combined intellectual property team to more than 70 attorneys and technical specialists, and will double the size of the Nelson Mullins Boston office More >>

SNR Denton has added five lateral partners to its U.S. ranks, the law firm announced today.  The additions to the New York, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles offices include former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean C. Cenawood; outsourcing and technology lawyer John A. Funk; patent litigators Mark L. Hogge and Shailendra K. Maheshwari; and antitrust and trade regulation litigator Mark Riera, respectively More >>