Press Releases

January 30, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA) – Today, Hanson Bridgett LLP announced it has expanded its Southern California presence with the addition of Partner Claire Hervey Collins and attorneys Paul Beck, Beth Hummer, Laura Ratcliffe, and Julian Viksman from Lewis Brisbois. The group joins Hanson Bridgett in Los Angeles, where the San Francisco-based firm has had a growing presence since 2014 ...

January 30, 2020 (San Francisco, CA) – Hanson Bridgett LLP, a leading California law firm advising clients statewide, is pleased to announce that Kristina Lawson has been elected to serve as the firm’s next managing partner. Lawson will take the reins from longtime Managing Partner Andrew Giacomini following a transition period, becoming the first woman to lead the firm in its more than 60-year history ...

We are delighted to announce Deacons has been awarded multiple accolades in the 2019 Asian-mena Counsel In-House Community Firm of the Year awards. Each year, the In-House Community canvasses it’s 20,000+ in-house counsel members to ask, “Which law firms do you prefer to use?”, and more importantly “Why?”.  This is largest and most definitive poll of buyers of legal services, and a record breaking number of in-house lawyers participated in the survey this year ...

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/lee_denton/details">Lee D. Denton</a> joined the firm as an associate in its North Carolina office.<br /> <br /> Denton's primary area of practice is litigation, with an emphasis on complex business cases, estates litigation, construction defect cases and personal injury litigation ...

Kochhar & Co. has been ranked as India’s Top-Tier Firm in seven practice areas including Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, TMT, Labour & Employment, Intellectual Property, White Collar Crime and Aviation (including Aerospace and Defence). The Firm has also been recognised as a Leading Firm in the five practice areas of Real Estate & Construction, Anti-Trust & Competition, Banking & Finance, Projects Energy & Infrastructure and Tax ...

On Jan. 14, 2020, Microsoft ended support for its Windows 2007 operating system. This means Microsoft will no longer issue regular security updates for users of Window 2007. The process of issuing security updates for computer systems is commonly referred to as “patching.” Similar to fabric patches that repair holes in clothing, software patches repair holes in computer programs ...

A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised high-tech company TRUMPF Hüttinger, a member of Ditzingen-based TRUMPF Group, on the acquisition of HBH Microwave GmbH. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. TRUMPF Hüttinger will thus expand its technology portfolio with semiconductor-based solid-state microwave generators. The generators are used in industrial applications such as plasma generation, industrial heating, communication, or radar technologies ...

<strong>Charleston, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Kelly J. Kimble, Travis A. Knobbe, Brienne T. Marco, Joseph V. Schaeffer and Christina S. Terek were elected as Members of the law firm effective January 1, 2020.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/kelly_kimble/details">Kimble</a> is based in the firm's Morgantown, West Virginia office ...

James Reid, one of Michigan’s best-known and most accomplished young attorneys, has brought his team of three lawyers to Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Detroit. Along with partner R.J. Cronkhite and associate Zoey Mayhew, Reid migrates from Maddin, Hauser, Roth & Heller, P.C., where he practiced for more than 15 years. Reid counsels entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, in-house counsel, and human resources directors to make strategic business decisions ...

<strong>Pittsburgh</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/fayezeh_haji%20hassan/details">Fayezeh Haji Hassan</a> has joined the firm as an associate.<br /> <br /> At Spilman, Haji Hassan's practice will focus on general corporate matters and securities law. She handles corporate transactions and commercial agreements. She also works on employment-based immigration matters ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP adds two new associates in Lexington and Louisville. Alex D. Croft is among the Louisville office’s newest talent focusing on estate planning and tax law. Croft comes to the firm from Commonwealth Bank and Trust, where he was general counsel – trust counsel, vice president. He received his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and B.S. in finance from the University of Kentucky ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has appointed Philip Tansley, an expert in cyber incident response, as a partner based in their London office. Philip was previously a partner at Keystone Law and co-founded a multi-award winning multi-disciplinary incident response service. Philip will be joining Shoosmiths to further develop their cyber incident response capability, complimenting their existing emergency response service and leading data protection and privacy practice ...

Brigard Urrutia is proud to announce the strengthening of its Corporate / M&A team with the appointment of Fernando Castillo and Tomas Holguín as new Partners of the Firm, effective as of January 1, 2020. The new partners are lawyers who have stood out for their personal qualities and for their professional skills, demonstrating exceptional leadership in the legal services market and achieving an important trajectory in the Firm ...

Dinsmore and Shohl’s Raymond L. Harrell Jr. has been voted president of the Kanawha County Bar Association (KCBA). He will serve a one-year term. Harrell is a labor and employment and government relations attorney whose practice focuses on employment litigation and registered lobbying work. He regularly represents companies in the areas of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour, deliberate intent, unemployment appeals, unfair labor practice, and general litigation ...

We are delighted to announce that Shearn Delamore & Co has again been highly ranked as a Top Tier firm by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, with eight out of 12 practice groups ranked as Top Tier ...

A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of 68 percent of the shares in Diebold Nixdorf Portavis GmbH from Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated. With the acquisition, DATAGROUP expands its existing business with high-quality cloud services and IT operating services in the financial sector. DATAGROUP also aspires to use the merger to achieve faster growth. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

A team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit advised HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH on the sale of burger chain Hans im Glück. Former majority shareholder AML Invest Treuhandgesellschaft mbH sold and transferred its stake in HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH to an investor group. The group includes GAB Grundstücks-, Finanzierungs-, Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH, an existing minority shareholder, and the founders of bakery chain Backwerk, Dr. Dirk Schneider and Dr. Hans-Christian Limmer ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has expanded its Columbus office, welcoming attorney G. Randall (Randy) Ayers to the firm. Ayers joins as a partner in Dinsmore’s labor department, bringing a strong background in traditional, management side labor relations. Ayers practice focuses on a wide variety of labor arbitration and litigation, collective bargaining, proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, and more ...

65% of employees cited long hours as their primary concern, with Generation Z singling out a lack of workplace diversity (65%) 81% of employees said strong corporate culture is one of the most important factors when deciding whether to join or stay at a company, with Generation Z viewing it as equally important as salary Introducing equal gender pay is seen as the top priority for companies in the next 12-24 months A survey of more than 1,000 working professionals and 100 senior in-house

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Members <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/carrie_grundmann/details">Carrie H. Grundmann</a> and <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/bryan_scott/details">Bryan G. Scott</a> were recognized by North Carolina Super Lawyers ...

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 rankings were recently released and once again Deacons has achieved a strong set of results across the board. Overall we are ranked in 18 practice areas in the Hong Kong and China chapters. We are delighted to be recognised for the first time in ‘Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms’ and ‘Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms ‘in the China chapter, alongside our Intellectual Property practice which continues to receive recognition ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP continues to grow its presence in Columbus. The office has grown with the addition of four new associates: Joshua M. Cartee, H. Devon Collins, Scott T. Surovjak and Joseph D. Wheeler. The new arrivals bring Dinsmore’s Columbus roster to 80 attorneys, making it the national firm’s second-largest office. It is the fourth-largest law firm in the Capital City, according to the 2019-2020 Columbus Business First book of lists ...

The Society for Ohio Health Care Attorneys (SOHA) has a new president in Dinsmore partner of counsel Tim Cahill. SOHA is a professional society under the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA). Per the SOHA website, its mission is to “advance health care law by providing a forum for the exchange of information among attorneys serving health care providers ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has expanded its award-winning real estate team with the appointment of Simon Foster as a partner. Simon previously worked at Laytons Solicitors for the entire 13 years of his career and established his name by building a property litigation practice from the ground up. He is recommended in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners ...

A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach advised the globally active company WuXi Biologics on the acquisition of a sterile filling and freeze-drying plant from Bayer AG. The plant is designed for the filling and freeze-drying of the blood-coagulation medication Kovaltry®. The plant will be operated on the premises of the Chempark in Leverkusen. For this purpose, a long-term sublease agreement for the use of the building was concluded ...