Epstein Becker Green Adds Group of Health Care and Life Sciences Attorneys and Opens Princeton Office

Monday, February 23, 2015

Epstein Becker Green (EBG) is pleased to announce that a group of 15 attorneys is joining the firm, expanding the firm’s presence in the Northeast corridor and adding further depth to its well-established Health Care and Life Sciences and Litigation practices. The team is led by Gary W. Herschman, Anthony Argiropoulos, Anjana D. Patel, and Jack Wenik, all of whom have become Members of the Firm.

Additionally, Thomas Kane, Andrew Kaplan, Laurajane Kastner, Theodora (Teddy) McCormick, and David Weiss will also be joining as Members of the Firm. John Barry, Christina Burke, Diana Fratto, Victoria Vaskov Sheridan, Erica Sibley, and Scheherazade (Scher) Wasty are joining as Associates. The attorneys will be primarily based in Newark, Princeton, and New York. The group joins from Sills Cummis & Gross. More >>

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Nationally Recognized Political Lawyer Joins Akerman’s Washington DC Office

Monday, February 23, 2015

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced it has expanded its Washington, D.C., office with nationally recognized political lawyer, Brett Kappel. A leading authority on campaign finance, lobbying and government ethics laws, Kappel has deep, bipartisan experience with political law on the local, state and federal levels. Kappel joins Akerman as a partner in the Government Affairs & Public Policy Practice Group. More >>

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Bruce Leonard joins Miller Thomson

Friday, February 20, 2015

Miller Thomson is pleased to announce that Bruce Leonard has joined the firm’s Toronto office as part of its Insolvency and Restructuring practice.

With lawyers in key centres across the country, the firm’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group is recognized for its depth and experience in advising clients across the full range of insolvency proceedings, from security enforcement to national and international financial reorganizations. More >>

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White & Case Advises GTECH on US$5.2 Billion Senior Secured Notes Issue

Friday, February 20, 2015

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised GTECH S.p.A., a company active in the gaming technology, content, and service delivery solutions sectors to gaming markets, on its issuance of senior secured notes denominated in three tranches totalling US$3.2 billion, and two tranches totalling €1.55 billion, equivalent in aggregate to approximately US$5.2 billion. More >>

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Kirkland & Ellis Represents Arc Logistics Partners LP in Agreement to Acquire a Terminal in Joliet, Illinois

Friday, February 20, 2015

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is representing Arc Logistics Partners LP (NYSE: ARCX), an affiliate of Lightfoot Capital Partners, which today announced that, through a joint venture arrangement with GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), Arc has agreed to acquire all of the membership interests of Joliet Bulk, Barge & Rail LLC (JBBR) from CenterPoint Properties Trust for $216 million. JBBR’s principal assets consist of a crude oil unloading terminal and a four-mile crude oil pipeline, the Joliet Terminal, which are in the final stages of construction in Joliet, Illinois, and are expected to be complete in mid to late April 2015. More >>

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Dinsmore Lands Top Environmental Attorneys in Kentucky

Friday, February 20, 2015

In a move to significantly increase the firm’s environmental practice, Dinsmore & Shohl welcomes to the Lexington office five attorneys from Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP. Partners Carolyn M. Brown, Jack C. Bender, Jennifer J. Cave and R. Clay Larkin, along with Partner of Counsel Robin B. Thomerson made the move to Dinsmore. More >>

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Ball Corporation’s £4.3 billion Acquisition of Rexam

Friday, February 20, 2015

Davis Polk is advising Greenhill as lead financial adviser to Ball Corporation on its £4.3 billion takeover of Rexam plc, to be effected by means of a scheme of arrangement. Under the terms of the offer, which is subject to both an antitrust pre-condition and customary offer conditions, Rexam shareholders will receive a mixture of cash and new shares in Ball Corporation. Following completion of the transaction, Rexam shareholders are expected to hold approximately 19% of the combined group. More >>

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Chadbourne Represents Rockwell Automation in US$600 Million Registered Debt Offering

Friday, February 20, 2015

Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented Rockwell Automation, Inc. in a US$600 million registered public debt offering, comprised of US$300 million aggregate principal amount of 2.050% notes due 2020 and US$300 million aggregate principal amount of 2.875% notes due 2025. The issuance and sale of the notes closed on February 17, 2015. Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. More >>

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Steptoe Further Expands Tax Practice with Private Client Team in New York

Friday, February 20, 2015

Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that trusts and estates lawyer Beth D. Tractenberg has joined the firm as a partner and Jasmine Campirides Hanif has joined as of counsel. Both will be based in the firm’s New York office. Their arrival continues the expansion of Steptoe’s Tax Group, which recently welcomed the return of co-chair Lisa Zarlenga from the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy. More >>

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Prominent Chicago Trial Attorneys Join Wilson Elser

Thursday, February 19, 2015

National law firm Wilson Elser hired distinguished Chicago trial attorneys Partners Dom Savaiano and Paul Bozych along with their six-member team. Formerly of Clausen Miller, the team includes Partners Bradford Krause, Elizabeth Grover, Jack Murphy, Associate Erin Schreiber, and two support-staff professionals.

The acquisition of this team adds momentum to Wilson Elser’s growing Midwest presence. Recently, the firm added three Midwest offices in Milwaukee, the Detroit suburb of Novi and Edwardsville, Illinois. More >>

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