Press Releases

A leader on the car industry market, the German company ZF opens its factory in Pančevo within the first phase of the EUR 160 million investment. The factory will start producing machines, generators for hybrid and electric drives, gearshift switches and microswitches in the first half of June ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn advised on the management buyout of Scottish cyber security specialist Adarma. The Glasgow headquartered company, previously known as ECS Security, has an extensive client roster that includes market-leading brands and FTSE 250 organisations. The private management buyout was led by Nathan Dornbrook and David Calder, with capital from mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge and debt from Bank of Scotland ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, represented Kia Motors America Inc. and Kia Motors Corp. in its Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals class action settlement victory on June 6, 2019. In July 2018, the Court granted Dykema’s petition for en banc review of a three-judge panel's split controversial decision, throwing out the nationwide class-action settlement claiming that fuel efficiency estimates in advertisements and car window stickers for certain vehicle models were overstated ...

Dykema's Insurance Industry Group has announced the launch of Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments, a blog providing thoughtful and concise analysis of emerging issues in the insurance industry. The Blog provides a broad discussion of issues of interest to professionals engaged in the insurance industry who are eager to stay abreast of legal developments ...

<strong>Charleston, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/christopher_green/details">Christopher M. Green</a> has joined the law firm as Counsel in its Charleston office.<br /> <br /> Green's primary area of practice is litigation with an emphasis on federal black lung ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that it served as legal counsel to McDonald’s in the sale of the company’s former corporate world headquarters, an 80-acre site located in Oak Brook, Ill. The property, which featured a 331,630-square-foot headquarters building, a 130,484-square-foot building (Hamburger University) and a 218-room Hyatt hotel, was sold to John Paul DeJoria, CEO and co-founder of Paul Mitchell hair care products ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm in dental services, is proud to announce that its Dental Service Organizations (DSO) Industry Group provided legal representation to Bain Capital Double Impact, the impact investing business of Bain Capital, in its investment in Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics, a premier group-practice provider of specialty dental services to families throughout the state of Texas ...

Rome, June 10 2019 – International law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners has appointed Giampietro Castano as Of Counsel. A long-time consultant to the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), where he led the Business Crisis Management Unit for 11 years (2007 to 2019), Giampietro is unanimously recognized as one of the leading experts in industrial and social relations management ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added Elizabeth L. Lynch as of counsel to the firm’s Pittsburgh office, expanding the public finance group. Lynch has spent the last 30 with Eckert Seamans, Cherin & Mellott LLC. Lynch has represented clients operating in higher education, health care and government arenas and has served as bond, underwriter and trustee counsel in connection with complex financing transactions in a highly complex regulatory environment. Lynch received her J.D ...

Governor Jim Justice has appointed Dinsmore Partner Mark Carter to the West Virginia Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission. The bipartisan panel of eight advisers meets ad hoc to evaluate and make recommendations to the governor regarding judicial applicants throughout the state’s courts. “It’s an honor to serve the state in this capacity,” Carter said. “I am grateful for the appointment and look forward to working with my fellow commission members ...

A multi-disciplinary Shepherd and Wedderburn team completed the acquisition of the Loch Lomond Distillery Group (LLG) on behalf of new Chinese private equity firm, Hillhouse Capital Management, Ltd. Hillhouse again approached Shepherd and Wedderburn to act on the transaction, having previously been interested in a smaller distillery last autumn, though LLG is a significantly larger transaction. The price is confidential but very substantial ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has unveiled a prestigious line-up of industry speakers for Property 2019, Scotland’s premiere property conference ...

Buenos Aires, June 6, 2019. On May 9, the operation through which YPF Ventures obtained a strategic stake in Sustentator S.A. closed. YPF Ventures is a YPF vehicle which seeks to diversify the company’s energy-related businesses and boost its local innovation. YPF Ventures will position itself in a new field for YPF, as a tool to generate innovation, either by incorporating already-proven global technology or developing at start-up level ...

Panama, May 28, 2019. Morgan & Morgan acted as counsel to Cirsa Enterprises S.L.U. in connection with the offering of €390,000,000 4.750% senior secured notes due 2025, issued by Cirsa Finance International S.à.r.l., and to be guaranteed by the Cirsa Enterprises S.L.U. and, among others, Gaming & Services de Panama, S.A ...

Han Kun advised and acted as the PRC counsel to the Joint Bookrunners on GSX Techedu Inc.'s U.S. initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GSX". GSX is a leading online K-12 large-class after-school tutoring service provider in China. The company also provides foreign language, professional and interest courses ...

Rome, June 5, 2019 – International law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners announces the creation of a focus team dedicated to sports law. The new focus team aims to offer Italian and international clients - such as institutions, companies, sports attorneys, athletes - comprehensive and integrated services across the sports industry ...

Mid Europa Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today the agreement to sell its shares in Knjaz Miloš to a joint venture between Karlovarské Minerální Vody (KMV) and PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo). The transaction is currently subject to customary regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q3 2019. Karanović & Partners acted as local counsel for Mid Europa Partners in this transaction, working closely with White & Case as international counsel ...

A team led by Kristina Schneider advised Magellan Netzwerke GmbH, a member of FERNAO group, on the acquisition of SOLIT SYSTEMS GmbH and the subsequent reorganization of the group. SOLIT SYSTEMS GmbH is an IT service company specializing in IT security, data protection, and compliance, which has bundled its comprehensive experience in market-driven and innovative managed security services. The target group ranges from medium-sized companies to large corporate groups ...

Our firm celebrated a very special night on May 16th ...

For the fourth year running, Ellex has been named the top law firm in the Baltics by the independent Swedish market research company Kantar Sifo that has just announced its "Tier 1 Law Firm Review 2019". Ellex Valiunas has been also named as Tier 1 law firm in Lithuania by overall performance, legal competence and market standing. The survey "Tier 1 Law Firm Review" ranked the largest law firms in the Baltics and each Baltic country separately ...

Pellerano & Herrera received the award as the most innovative law firm in financial deals in the Dominican Republic for the 3d consecutive year. The prestigious publication, International Financial Law Review (IFLR), honored Pellerano & Herrera as the Dominican Republic’s “Most Innovative Firm of the Year”, during the 2019 IFLR Americas Awards ceremony held on Thursday, May 16th at Essex Hotel in New York ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added George Patsarikas as an associate to the firm’s Detroit office who will practice out of the intellectual property department. Patsarikas joins Dinsmore from Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. Patsarikas received his J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Oakland University ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that four of its Los Angeles-based attorneys have been named 2019 Rising Stars in the Southern California edition of Super Lawyers. The Rising Star list is the result of an exhaustive, multi-phase selection process that mirrors the patented methodology used to assemble the Super Lawyers list. Attorneys designated as Rising Stars are up-and-coming attorneys who are 40 years of age or younger and have practiced law for 10 years or less ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Eric S. Klein, a member in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, has been appointed as Leader of Dykema’s Health Care Practice Group ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that the firm’s Automotive Product Liability Litigation and Automotive Litigation practices have been ranked by the Legal 500 United States 2019 (The Legal 500) as some of the best Automotive Industry-related legal practices in the nation. In addition to the practice rankings, nine of Dykema's Automotive Industry Group attorneys received individual recognition, including Terri Reiskin and Derek Whitefield being named “Leading Lawyers ...