South Africa
ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, has made two key executive appointments in its tax department, further fortifying the firm’s tax capability. Kazi Mbangeleli and Mark Badenhorst have joined ENSafrica’s team of some 50-strong tax specialists, including 18 tax executives. Kazi specialises in M&A-related international tax and financial services tax. Kazi’s deep expertise includes the tax aspects of structured investments and disinvestments, M&A and offshore expansions
USA
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome new litigation partner Richik Sarkar to the firm’s Cleveland office. Sarkar is a decorated attorney, having been named to Crain’s Cleveland’s Who to Watch in Law list in 2016, the Leadership Cleveland class of 2015 and Lawyers of Color’s first Nation’s Best list. Sarkar comes to Dinsmore from McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, where he was a complex consumer and commercial litigation attorney as well as chief privacy officer
USA
Bradley is pleased to announce that Benchmark Litigation has named the firm its 2020 Tennessee Litigation Firm of the Year. The firm was honored Feb. 27 at the annual awards dinner in New York.
Bradley was one of three finalists for the award, which recognizes litigation firms in each state based on the significance of their representations. The firm also was a finalist for Alabama and Mississippi Litigation Firm of the Year. The state honors are part of the eighth annual Benchmark Litigation U
South Africa
ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, has made two key executive appointments in its tax department, further fortifying the firm’s tax capability.Kazi MbangeleliandMark Badenhorsthave joined ENSafrica’s team of some 50-strong tax specialists, including 18 tax executives.Kazispecialises in M&A-related international tax and financial services tax
South Africa
We are pleased to inform you that ENSafrica’s IP team has received remarkable rankings in World Trademark Review’s prestigiousWTR 1000, which through extensive research and client testimony, aims to spotlight firms and individuals that are deemed outstanding in this critical area of practice
Romania
Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) announced today the 2020 class of promotions
Chile
We are very proud to announce that our partner, Jaime Carey, has been recognized as “Law Firm Leader of the Year” by the international publication, Latin Lawyer. “Jaime Carey leads the Chilean powerhouse that has dominated the Chilean legal market for decades. He has steered Chile’s largest firm from success to success, pushing it to innovate and invest heavily in technology to constantly break new ground in its legal service offering”, says Latin Lawyer
Germany
Fiscal 2019 saw business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek once again significantly increase its revenue. 2019 annual revenue amounted to EUR 194.7 million, an increase of EUR 17.7 million over the previous year. With 2018 revenue standing at EUR 177 million, growth of exactly ten percent was recorded. “We are able to look back on a successful business year again and are very satisfied with the development of our firm and our client relationships,” said Dr
Germany
A team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised UBM Development Deutschland GmbH on the acquisition of the FAZ Tower project development company. UBM Development Deutschland (75 percent) and Paulus Immobilien Group (25 percent) are now developing the new headquarters of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and a hotel with 350 rooms in Frankfurt’s Europaviertel
Germany
With a team led by Dr. Frank Baßler and Klaus Weinand-Härer, both Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, ILG Capital GmbH acquired two retail centers on behalf of an institutional fund. The properties are located in Waldkraiburg and Kaiserslautern and were part of the “Silver” portfolio. The sellers are two special purpose vehicles held by a joint venture between RDI and Menora Mivtachim
USA
March 2, 2020 (San Francisco, CA) – Hanson Bridgett has chosen Raffi Zerounian to be a member of the 2020 class of Fellows, participating in a landmark program created by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) to identify, train, and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession.
According to LCLD President, Robert J. Grey, Jr
USA
Shandra Wright, director of eDiscovery and paralegal services at Bradley, was featured in a Q&A with Lighthouse Global for its International Women’s Day campaign. The campaign features female leaders within the eDiscovery industry who actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations, and celebrate women’s achievements
USA
Bradley is pleased to announce that L. Justin Burney has joined the firm’s Huntsville office as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group.
“It is a pleasure to welcome Justin to our Huntsville office,” said Bradley Huntsville Office Managing Partner Frank M. Caprio. “Justin brings more than a decade of experience practicing corporate law in Alabama for major clients across many industries.”
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USA
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce three associates have been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star list for 2020. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The exclusive list recognizes no more than five percent of attorneys
USA
Bradley attorney Jack Selden was quoted in Law360 after securing a favorable settlement for his client, AseraCare, in its lengthy dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The settlement requires AseraCare to pay $1 million to the DOJ, which originally sought more than $200 million worth of claims under the False Claims Act.
“When a case settles for $1 million where the claims have been for over $200 million, I think that speaks for itself,” Selden said
USA
Deacons advises the sole sponsor Lego Corporate Finance Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Jiu Zun Digital Interactive Entertainment Group Holdings Limited.
The company is a digital entertainment content provider in the PRC with a diversified content portfolio comprising (i) mobile games mainly played on android operating system, (ii) e-magazines, and (iii) other digital media content such as comics and music
Scotland
Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team advised on deals with an aggregate value of £6.03 billion in 2019. The team, which was named Corporate and Commercial Team of the Year at the 2019 Scottish Legal Awards, advised on 85 deals globally in the year to December 2019, including a number of notable clean energy and technology-led transactions. Clean energy deals included: • Acting for BayWa r.e
Germany
A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Stuttgart, legally advised IPCOM group on the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Seidemann group. With the acquisition, IPCOM strengthens its existing position in the technical insulation sector and its presence in the German B2B market. Seidemann group’s former shareholder Jörg Seidemann will remain with the company as General Manager
Germany
Effective March 1, 2020, Sandra Pfister (48) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office as Equity Partner. The financing specialist joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she had been a Partner since 2016. Prior to that, she practiced at Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter), Simmons & Simmons, and Shearman & Sterling
British Virgin Islands
STEP, the global professional body of trust and estate professional advisors, has announced that O’Neal Webster Managing Partner Vanessa King has been elected to chair the STEP Caribbean and Latin America Region Committee for a three-year term. Ms. King (British Virgin Islands) assumes the leadership role from outgoing chair Ivan Hooper of Uruguay, and is joined on the executive council by newly elected Deputy Chair Natalie Glitzenhirn-Augustin (St. Lucia) and Secretary Rosa Restrepo (Panama)
USA
Bradley attorney Bruce Ely was quoted in Bloomberg Tax on new guidance proposed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The rules explain that business meals at sports or entertainment venues are still eligible for a 50% tax deduction if receipts documenting the separate costs between events and food are provided.
That gives attorneys assurance that clients will still receive a write-off for meals that occur during a fancy event, said Ely
USA
Bradley is pleased to announce that Michael Gordon has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, as a partner in its Banking and Financial Services Practice Group and as part of the firm’s Government Enforcement and Investigations Team.
“We are very excited to welcome Mike to our D.C. office and our team of highly experienced and accomplished banking and financial services attorneys,” said Bradley Washington, D.C., Office Managing Partner Douglas Patin
USA
Bradley is pleased to announce that James A. Collura, a partner in the firm’s Houston office, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Institute for Energy Law of the Center for American and International Law. He will serve a one-year term as chair of the Oilfield Services Committee
