McCarter & English has attracted two intellectual property partners – patent litigator John Gutkoski, who tries cases in the life sciences and high tech sectors, and Jonathan Lovely who represents large medical device companies and emerging growth companies in patent prosecution and related strategies – to its Boston office. More >>
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Global law firm Mayer Brown announced today that Ashley McDermott has joined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London as a partner. He will advise on a range of lending transactions, particularly those involving emerging markets. More >>
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Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that leading intellectual property attorney Nicola Dagg joined the Firm’s London office today. In addition, a talented group of IP lawyers that includes partners Daniel Lim and Katie Coltart and associates Jin Ooi and Steven Baldwin will also join Kirkland in London. More >>
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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Kenneth J. Sachs to its Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group as a Member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office. Sachs joins Dykema after practicing in the Troy, Mich., office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., for more than a decade. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today that accomplished attorneys Tom Ara and Robert Sherman have joined the firm to lead the Entertainment Finance and Transactions practices based out of the firm’s Century City office in Los Angeles. Ara and Sherman will together serve as co-chairs of the Entertainment Finance practice, while Ara will chair the Entertainment Transactions practice. More >>
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Matthew Haist has joined Ashurst as a counsel in its New York office. Matthew has extensive experience advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated and bilateral loans, investment grade loans, project financings, trade financings, structured finance deals, and receivables purchases. He is a member of the New York bar and has also worked in Hong Kong. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Banking Practice with the addition of Julia Smithers Excell as a new partner in London.
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Taylor Wessing has confirmed the opening of its office in Liverpool, bringing its number of offices to 33 in 19 jurisdictions.
The office is located in the city centre and will provide flexible space before long-term requirements are finalised in 2019. More >>
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Paul, Weiss is advising International Business Machines Corp. in its all-cash acquisition of Red Hat Inc., creating the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider. Under the terms of the proposed deal, IBM will acquire Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion. The deal represents IBM’s largest-ever transaction.
The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Scott Barshay and Steven Williams and includes corporate partner John Kennedy and counsel Kyle Seifried and Frances Mi; employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic and counsel Jarrett Hoffman; finance partners Manuel Frey and Gregory Ezring and counsel Caith Kushner; tax partners Jeffrey Samuels and Scott Sontag; and intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon and counsel Jonathan Ashtor.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Vishal Mehta has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Antitrust Law Practice based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mehta brings a broad range of antitrust experience to Morrison & Foerster, including M&A, investigations, litigation, compliance, counseling, and public affairs. He joins the firm from Baker Botts, where he maintained a full-service antitrust practice with a focus on mergers.
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