Covington & Burling has opened its first office in Asia, residing in Beijing. The firm’s previous management chair, Stuart Stock, will head the team. Stuart will be accompanied by senior lawyers Ellen Eliasoph and Cao Yu. The former is former Warner Bros Exective, and the latter was a partner at a Chinese Firm Haiwen & Partners. The Beijing office is Covington & Burling’s 6th firm.
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Patton Boggs is making itself know in the Middle East. The firm has launched an office Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Although Patton has worked in Abu Dhabi for thirty years, this is the beginning of having resident lawyers in the city. The office will also be working with the firm’s other Middle Eastern offices, inlcuding those in Dubai and Doha, Qatar. The Abu Dhabi office will provide legal service in a number of practice groups, including: private capital and investment funds; banking and financial institutions; international business transactions; construction, infrastructure and real estate; Islamic finance; and litigation and dispute resolution.
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Tags: Squire Patton Boggs | DubaiIn response to the many who have left Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, the firm has announced its desire to merge with another firm. Thelen reportedly has yet to advance beyond this step 1 of acknowledgment, and has yet to make any further steps. This will be the firm’s second merger, two years after the first. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423083617
Thompson Hine has created a Climate Change Sustainable Business Solutions group to address increasingly complex concerns of climate change and sustainability. The attorney participants of the group together possess a sundry array of law fields, such as: environmental, energy, finance, intellectual property, trade, real estate, construction and corporate law. The new practice group has two co-leaders: Andrew Kolesar and Steve Axtell.
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The law firm of McKee Nelson has launched a new team whose primary focus in on “covered bonds”. This type of bond is one that is sponsored by a bank, and which if defaulted, is maintained by a group of loans or receivables. Covered bonds are more common in Europe, but the US is catching up. The team is part of the structured finance practice group, and is led by Washington partner John Arnolz and New York partner Kenneth P. Martin.
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Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has made a big move in Latin America by making an alliance with the native firm of Fernandez Quiroga Ayarragaray & Ocampo. But, the firm is nowhere new to the area. Curtis has advised clients in Latin America for over a century and had an office in Buenos Aires in the 1920s. Curtis currently has five offices in the US, and four in Europe.
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The Greenberg Traurig Tampa office boosts its litigation practice with the addition of two new associates, Richard J. Mockler and Don Crawford. Mockler joins Greenberg from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and prior to that, Holland and Knight. Crawford previously practiced at Paul Hastings. Both associates will concentrate on commercial, real estate, land use, environmental, and other complex litigation.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has boosted their practice in Asia by welcoming Eva H. Wang back to their firm, where she was once an associate. Wang was previously general counsel and vice president of legal affairs at Spreadtrum communications, a leading NASDAQ Chinese company. Wang brings her expertise of corporate law to the Shanghai office as partner.
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Tags: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | ShanghaiChristensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, who launched a new office in Las Vegas in mid January, just now has staffed a full office. The office has reached 8 lawyers: four from Snell & Wilmer and two from Lionel Sawyer & Collins. Managing partner, Jim Mace, left Snell & Wilmer to open the office. With him came attorney Mandy Shavinsky who joined as partner. Later, Snell’s Corey Eschweiler and Joe Schmitt jumped over. From Lionel Sawyer, attorneys Lance Coburn and Adam Smith are new to the team, as well as, Tony May from Albright Stoddard Warnick Albright. Christensen, Glaser concentrates on complex litigation in the areas of construction, environmental and corporate law
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Baker Botts has added energy lawyer, Kevin Keenan, to its Global Projects group. Keenan was previously at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, in both London and Houston. At Baker Botts, he will remain in Houston as Partner. Keenan acquired his Juris Doctorate at Georgetown University Law Center.
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