Press Releases

Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg, LL.M. (54) and Dr. Alexander Jüngst (37) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office as Equity Partners. Moving from Görg to Heuking, they will be accompanied by Associates Dr. Kerstin Goeck and Maximilian Spitzhorn-Storck. Renowned M&A partner von Rosenberg has many years of experience in advising on German and cross-border M&A transactions. His clients include large private equity funds and corporations in the energy sector ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Bonnie Mayfield, a Bloomfield Hills-based member in Dykema’s Litigation practice, received multifaceted, formal recognition for her service and dedication to the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has once again been named a top-10 health care firm in the American Bar Association’s Annual Regional Law Firm Recognition List. This year, Dinsmore ranked No. 7 in the Midwest region based on section lawyer membership. More than 45 Dinsmore attorneys are active in the industry representing health care clients, covering everything from regulatory compliance to fraud, waste and abuse claims to medical malpractice, hospital representation and much more ...

Due to its quick expansion and plans for continued growth, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Chicago branch has moved into its new office at 222 W Adams St., on the top floor of the Franklin Center’s USG Tower. Since opening in March of 2014, Dinsmore has grown its attorney roster from one to 28 in Chicago, and there is no sign of slowing down. The new space, custom-designed to fit Dinsmore’s full-service offerings, is 150 percent larger than its office at 227 W Monroe St ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has launched a Smarter Working innovation unit to further enhance its service to clients. The Smarter Working unit, believed to be the first of its kind for a Scottish-headquartered law firm, pools the firm’s established expertise in the fields of process, automation, technology, data and knowledge to improve efficiency and provide insights that deliver genuine benefit to clients ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is proud to announce Cleveland Office Managing Partner James Dimitrijevs has been named to World Trademark Review’s Best of the Best list. WTR Global Leaders is a new publication that aggregates the world’s foremost legal and corporate trademark professionals ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Partner Laura Holoubek has been named president-elect of Equestrian Events, Inc., a Kentucky-based non-profit that organizes and hosts some of the nation’s most prestigious equestrian sporting events. Chief among EEI’s offerings is the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Mars, which features some of the world’s greatest riders and has functioned as a qualifying event for the Olympics, Pan American Games and World Equestrian Games ...

Internationally operating Bader group, with some 1,000 employees throughout Europe, is preparing for the future and will undertake restructuring steps by the end of the year. As part of the restructuring, affiliated company Bader GmbH at its Senden site closes in particular the “machine cladding” partial production area. Dr. Lothar Ende and Dr. Johan-Michel Menke are the lead advisors on this restructuring ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Melanie L. Fry, member in the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group, was selected as the 2019 recipient of the Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation (BCWB) Belva Lockwood Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. Fry will be presented with the award at the BCWB’s annual Autumn Affair set for Oct. 25, 2019, at the Witte Museum in San Antonio ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today the appointment of Michael Carey and Mark Malven to lead the firm’s Mobility and Advanced Transportation Team. Both members of Dykema’s Automotive Industry Group, each attorney has several years of automotive practice in different disciplines; Carey as a litigator and Malven as a transactional attorney ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce that Dawson & Associates LLC, a leading workers’ compensation boutique firm in Columbus, has joined Dinsmore here in the capital city. With the move, Dinsmore’s local office is doubling its workers’ compensation group up to eight attorneys, making it the largest in Columbus for employment defense among the firms listed in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms rankings ...

We are proud to announce that our regional tax team has been recognized as "Best Firm in Central America" by International Tax Review. The recognition was conferred during ITR Awards Ceremony held the night of Thursday September 19th, 2019. During the ceremony, it was stated that “the winner for “Tax Firm of the year” wins for its strength in delivery for clients across all region” ...

On September 9th, an inaugural event launched the construction of the complex that will receive delegates from 196 nations and U.N. members who will participate in the Conference of the Parties number 25 (COP 25) of the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). The conference is organized in response to climate change, and will take place in Chile this December. In addition, the agenda for the civil society was announced by President Sebastián Piñera on the same day ...

Forbes has named Dinsmore & Shohl LLP among the nation’s best law firms for labor and employment practice in its inaugural America’s Top Corporate Law Firms list . Of the more than 400,000 law firms across the country, 243 made the list, and a mere 29 were recognized for their labor and employment work ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed associate Chase Cunningham to the firm’s Louisville office. He will practice with both the immigration and labor and employment groups. Cunningham is a 2018 graduate of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Before joining Dinsmore, he worked as a judicial term clerk for United States Magistrate Judge Colin H. Lindsay in the Western District of Kentucky ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP today released its Fall 2019 Energy Roundup, a comprehensive report on the state of the energy industry, as well as updates to several other key energy-related reports ...

Delphi has appointed Stefan Erhag as Managing Partner and Frida Rydin as Deputy Managing Director for the office in Stockholm. Delphi has appointed Stefan Erhag as the new managing partner for the operations in Stockholm, effective as of October 1. Stefan has worked at Delphi since 2003 and was managing partner between 2008 and 2016. Stefan succeeds David Aversten who has held the position since 2016. – I am pleased to, once again, have been trusted to lead the operations ...

<strong>Roanoke, Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/lori_thompson/details">Lori D. Thompson</a> has joined the firm as a partner.<br /> <br /> "Lori is a well-known and highly respected lawyer in the Roanoke Valley and across the state," said Webster Day, who manages Spilman's Roanoke office ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has promoted six solicitors to Associate in its latest round of internal promotions, four of whom joined the firm as trainees. Leigh Herd (contentious construction), Emma Guthrie (property and infrastructure), Katy Fitzpatrick (banking and finance), Nathaniel Buckingham (contentious construction), Andrew Winton (commercial disputes and regulation) and James Bulpitt (banking and finance) will assume their new roles on 1 October ...

A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer and Dr. Peter Ladwig of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG (Winnenden) on the acquisition of Max Holder group (Reutlingen). Holder is known in the industry for its high level of competence in developing and manufacturing multifunctional municipal vehicles. Holder has some 250 employees and operates sites in Canada, the USA, Croatia, and Italy ...

Buenos Aires, 27 September 2019. On 30 August closed the acquisition through which Unilever Andina Bolivia S.A. purchased Astrix S.A., one the most important Bolivian cleaning and personal care products company. For more than twenty years, Astrix has been developing its activities in Bolivia, where it produces and markets mass consumption products. In this operation, the selling party was the Lichtenfeld Group ...

Morgan & Morgan advised the sellers of a business engaged in the production, distribution and sale of ice pops, sorbets, ice cream and frozen desserts in the Republic of Panama. Partners Francisco Arias G. and Roberto Vidal, and associate Cristina De Roux, participated in this transaction ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Cory L. Webster as a Senior Counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office, where he will be a member of the firm’s nationwide appellate practice. Webster comes to Dykema after serving as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

The world-renowned legal media publisher, IFLR1000, has recently published firm and lawyer rankings in its 2020 Financial and Corporate Guide. Six Han Kun practice areas were highly recommended this year. Four practice areas were ranked Tier 1 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that Alison Ashmore, Dallas-based member in the firm’s Litigation Department, was named one of the “2019 Dallas Top Women in Legal” by the National Diversity Council (NDC) and its affiliate, the Texas Diversity Council (TXDC). Ashmore was presented the award at an award breakfast during the 3rd Annual Dallas Legal Diversity Week on Sept. 24 at the Dallas Marriot City Center ...