Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that noted trial lawyer James Christman has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner. Caroline Carlson has also joined as of counsel. Their arrivals continue the expansion of Steptoe’s commercial litigation practice in the Windy City, which over the past two months has added 10 litigators More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce a team of esteemed bank finance lawyers has joined the firm’s Chicago office. Zulfiqar (“Zulf”) Bokhari and Mohammed Shaheen have joined the firm as partners in the Finance Department and Stephen (“Steve”) Barr has joined as counsel in the Finance Department. Combined, the three boast 40 years of experience representing financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest commercial and investment banks, on a broad range of syndicated and leveraged finance transactions More >>

Kirkland & Ellis advised Trustwave Holdings, Inc., a privately held data protection and information security company headquartered in Chicago with an enterprise value of $850 million, in its acquisition by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), one of Asia’s leading communications companies. Following the close of the acquisition, SingTel plans to combine its state-of-the-art information and communications technology with Trustwave’s broad portfolio of managed security services. Post-acquisition, Trustwave will operate as a standalone business unit of SingTel More >>