O’Melveny Welcomes Three Former Prosecutors

Thursday, June 25, 2015

O’Melveny & Myers LLP welcomes back Jim Bowman, Maggie Carter, and David Kirman as partners in the Firm’s White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Group. All three O’Melveny alumni join from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and bring exceptional trial skills and diverse prosecutorial experience in healthcare, securities, and financial services fraud.

Their return to private practice was applauded by former Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of Major Frauds Section Beong-Soo Kim, now Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.: “Having had the privilege of supervising them at various points in their careers, I consider each to be a powerhouse in his or her own right—Jim in the area of securities fraud, Maggie with her public corruption cases, and David in the healthcare fraud arena. The fact that all three of these stellar lawyers have decided to return to O’Melveny is a coup for the Firm. Their arrivals demonstrate O’Melveny’s commitment to recruiting the best and brightest, and further cement O’Melveny’s reputation as a go-to firm for internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense, and bet-the-company litigation.” More >>

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Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia Closes on $1.8 Billion in Financing for Nuclear Plant Expansion

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Alston & Bird has advised the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) on $1.8 billion in financing to support MEAG Power’s share of constructing two advanced nuclear reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, GA.

The nuclear units are the first to be licensed and under construction in the United States in more than three decades. More >>

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Jones Day welcomes project finance lawyer Nick Collins in London

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

he global law firm Jones Day today announced that Nick Collins has joined the Firm as a partner. Mr. Collins will join the Firm’s Projects & Infrastructure Practice and be based in the Firm’s London Office. He was previously a partner in the Project Development & Finance Group at Latham & Watkins LLP.

Mr. Collins is a project finance lawyer with more than 18 years of experience advising borrowers, sponsors, export credit agencies, banks, multilateral lending agencies, and Islamic finance institutions on complex, large-scale energy, natural resources, and telecommunications projects around the world. He has extensive experience advising on project development and finance matters in the Middle East and, in addition, has significant experience advising on Middle East corporate finance and acquisition, debt capital markets, and M&A transactions. Mr. Collins also has extensive experience working on project development and finance, corporate and acquisition finance, and M&A transactions in Africa, the Russian Federation, and eastern Europe. Over the course of his career, he has worked in London, Hong Kong, and the Middle East. More >>

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Delhaize Group’s $29 Billion Merger with Royal Ahold

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

On June 24, 2015, leading international food retailers Delhaize Group and Royal Ahold N.V. announced that they have entered into an agreement to merge in a transaction that will create a combined company, Ahold Delhaize, valued at approximately $29 billion based on their closing share prices on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Cravath is representing Delhaize in connection with this transaction. Under the terms of the merger agreement, each Delhaize shareholder will receive 4.75 Ahold ordinary shares for each Delhaize ordinary share. More >>

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Fenwick Expands Private Equity Practice; David Johanson Joins the Firm

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Fenwick & West today announced that David Johanson has joined the firm as a partner in its private equity practice. Johanson represents private equity sponsors in a broad range of growth capital, M&A, recapitalization, joint venture and other business transactions. He also represents technology companies that partner with private equity sponsors. David will be based in the firm’s Silicon Valley headquarters. More >>

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Nossaman Expands Environment and Land Use Practice Group In San Francisco With Prominent Attorney Michael Durkee

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Nossaman LLP has expanded its Environment and Land Use Practice Group with the addition of Michael Durkee as a partner in the Firm’s San Francisco office. He joins from McKenna Long & Aldridge.

Mr. Durkee practices land use, elections, and local government law in both administrative and judicial proceedings. He represents developers, builders, property owners, cities, counties, special districts, and interest groups in all aspects of California local government, elections, and land use entitlement, review, approval processes and litigation. He has transactional and litigation expertise in the laws and processes regarding the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), local governance, general plans, specific plans, planning, zoning and development, vested rights (common law, development agreements, vesting maps), exactions (fees/dedications), the Subdivision Map Act, Williamson Act, and local elections (initiative, referendum, recall). More >>

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Novak Druce Strengthens Asia Pacific Practice with Seasoned IP Pro

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Continuing the strong growth that led to the rise to the #5 position on Law360’s largest IP boutiques, Novak Druce acquired another partner in its Washington D.C. office. Sunwoo Lee, Ph.D., recently departed the Washington D.C. office of Fox Rothschild to join Novak Druce as the Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice Group. Dr. Lee’s well-rounded practice is a combination of IP litigation, prosecution, and counseling. More >>

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International Real Estate Lawyer Joel Rothstein Joins Sidley

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Joel H. Rothstein has joined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate group of its Los Angeles office. Mr. Rothstein will continue his focus on structured finance, complex joint ventures and cross-border transactions in both the United States and Asia.

Mr. Rothstein led the Asia real estate and structured finance practices at his prior firm, where he regularly advised investment banks, private equity and sovereign wealth funds, real estate developers, and Asian and European investors in various areas, including real estate venture formation, non-performing loan acquisitions and dispositions, and investments in U.S. real estate. More >>

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Brant Maller Moves to Winston & Strawn

Monday, June 22, 2015

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that Brant Maller has joined the firm’s New York office. Mr. Maller’s practice focuses on representing investors of institutional capital in alternative asset classes, including private equity, hedge fund, real estate, and real assets. Independently, Mr. Maller will also continue his work with Alternative Investments Forum (AIF), an independent economic think tank focusing on institutional investment policy. AIF’s mission is to foster education, communication, and information exchange among the largest institutional investors globally. More >>

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Former NY State AG’s Charities Bureau Chief Jason Lilien Joins Loeb & Loeb in New York

Monday, June 22, 2015

Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Jason R. Lilien, a former Bureau Chief of the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, has joined the firm’s nationally-recognized Charitable Giving and Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice as a partner in the New York office. Lilien’s arrival follows the recent expansion of Loeb & Loeb’s tax-exempt organizations practice with the addition of partners Marcus S. Owens, former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, and Diara M. Holmes who joined the firm in March.

“Following on the heels of the arrival of Marc and Diara in the firm’s D.C. office, Jason’s move further solidifies Loeb’s position as the preeminent law firm in the nonprofit and exempt organizations field,” said Loeb & Loeb Chairman Michael D. Beck. “With a former New York AG official and a former IRS official on our esteemed bench, we are able to offer our nonprofit clients a truly unparalleled service platform.” More >>

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