Daniel J. Baker, (resident of Huntington), has joined Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, as a Partner in the Real Estate and Land Use and Zoning Practice Groups. Mr. Baker was formerly a Partner at the firm of Sahn Ward Coschignano & Baker, PLLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, zoning and land use, and environmental law. More >>
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Thomas B. Romer joined international law firm Greenberg Traurig’s Denver office as shareholder in its Corporate & Securities Practice. Romer will focus his practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, and business formation.
Romer has developed a successful domestic and cross-border transactional practice by using legal project management strategies to more effectively and efficiently manage complex transactions for his clients. Romer assisted Mexico Retail Properties and MRP Group, LP in completing the largest ever real estate transaction in Mexico’s history consisting of the sale of 49 commercial properties and the sale of MRP Group’s property management platform for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2 billion. As a founding member of an American Bar Association Task Force charged with developing legal project management tools for deal lawyers, Romer has helped to expand the use of legal project management strategies by other transactional lawyers. More >>
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Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Matthew J. Martinez has joined the firm’s Phoenix office as Shareholder. Mr. Martinez, who joins the firm from Fennemore Craig, brings to Jackson Lewis over 13 years of experience in immigration and nationality law. Mr. Martinez’s arrival strengthens the firm’s Immigration Practice Group, which recently benefited from the addition of immigration pro Lucrecia Davis in Houston. More >>
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Shearman & Sterling is advising Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification technologies, on its acquisition by Danaher Corporation for $127.20 per share in cash, or $13.8 billion including assumed debt and net of acquired cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by Pall shareholders and is expected to close in calendar 2015.
Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing solutions to meet the critical fluid management needs of customers across the broad spectrum of life sciences and industry. Pall works with customers to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The company’s engineered products enable process and product innovation and minimize emissions and waste. Pall Corporation is an S&P 500 company serving customers worldwide. More >>
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Weil is advising Verizon Communications Inc. in its agreement to purchase AOL Inc. for approximately $4.4 billion, in a deal that will further drive Verizon’s LTE wireless video and OTT (over-the-top video) strategy. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close this summer. More >>
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Foley Hoag LLP today announced the opening of an office in New York City and the hiring of three new partners. The firm now has offices in Boston, Washington D.C., Paris and New York.
The three partners starting Foley Hoag’s New York office are: Peter Sullivan, Walter Egbert III and Daniel Schimmel. Under their leadership, the office will initially focus on intellectual property and international law and arbitration, two areas of strength for the firm. The firm expects that its New York office will expand over time into other practice areas where the firm excels. More >>
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Lynne Halbrooks, the former acting inspector general for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia offices. She served as DOD’s acting inspector general from 2011 to 2013.
Ms. Halbrooks, who joined DOD as its first independent general counsel in 2009, served as the principal deputy inspector general from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2015. She was previously general counsel for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and spent four years with the U.S. Senate as the deputy sergeant at arms and general counsel to the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper. Ms. Halbrooks also served as deputy director in the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. More >>
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Jenner & Block LLP is pleased to announce that internationally renowned restructuring and bankruptcy lawyer Richard Levin – an author of the 1978 US Bankruptcy Code and recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Bankruptcy – is joining the firm as a partner in its New York office and becoming a member of its nationally recognized Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate Reorganization Practice, effective May 18, 2015. More >>
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As part of the continuing expansion of its Intellectual Property practice group, Dr. William R. Lambert has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, in the firm’s Palo Alto office.
Dr. Lambert is a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on patent prosecution and client counseling. He has experience with a broad range of industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, mechanical and electrical. Lambert’s broad technical background and over 20 years of research and development experience enables him to work with a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, polymers, physical chemistry, semiconductor and optoelectronic materials, electronic and photonic devices and fabrication, electronic packaging, telecommunications and manufacturing. More >>
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