Boston based Ropes & Gray has launched a new office in Boston this past Monday. It currently predicts that within the next two years, it will grow to house 100 lawyers. The firm has been around now for 140 years accumulating about 900 lawyers in seven offices, six in the US and one in Tokyo.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP opened an office in Shanghai, which brings the total number of offices in Asia Pacific to six. The Shanghai office is to focus on M&A, corporate finance and real estate.
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Kaye Scholer has a new addition in its Frankfurt office. Mayer Brown patent litigation lawyer,Wolfgang Leip, has joined as Partner. Leip moved to the US firm’s German arm last month along with associate Benedict von St André and two assistants.
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Law firm consultancy Hildebrandt International reports that in 2007 55 law firm mergers. Not bad, as compared to the 58 law firm mergers in 2006. The trend is still apparently higher than from 2004 and 2005. Hildebrandt expects the 2008 number to stay fairly high.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
Nixon Peabody is looking to gain LEED certification for its new Albany office. The U.S. Green Building Council offers LEED certification to buildings who meet particular qualifications concerning its environmentalism. Nixon Peabody plans to move into their hopefully LEED certified building in mid-May.
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Kurt Nondorf has recently joined the Houston office of Jackson Walker LLP as managing partner. His position entails the overseeing of the firm in its Houston location. Nondorf was previously head of transactions section in the firm’s Dallas branch, where he practiced commercial real estate.
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James E. Baiers was a member of Clark Hill from 1979 through 1996. He then went into the private sector and became the Chief Legal Officer for one of the countries largest publicly traded professional employer organizations with over 30,000 employees under contract. In that position he was responsible for all of the company’s legal matters including SEC filings, government compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and litigation.
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Tímea Bana has joined Siegler Law Office/Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an associate. Bana joins from Hungarian Television Zrt, in which she headed contractual matters. Bana’s specialization is in media and intellectual property law.
Source: www.bbj.hu
Chadbourne & Parke is expanding its London offices, adding more than 1,000 square meters to its Regis House location on King William Street. The expansion will support the branch’s growth, allowing for more attorney’s and more room. The construction should be completed in May.
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Brette Simon joins Jones Day in the Los Angeles Office as a partner in the Private Equity Practice. Ms. Simon, a renowned transactional attorney, comes from the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. Ms. Simon is the 4th transactional attorney to join as partner in the West Coast offices of Jones Day in the past three months.
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