Press Releases

<strong>Wheeling, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/jeffrey_mccamic/details">Jeffrey W. McCamic</a>, formerly of the McCamic, Sacco & McCoid law firm, has joined the firm's Wheeling office ...

In a project partnership with property developer and real estate investor nowinta Bau GmbH, project developer and operator i Live Group sold the “Campus Village II” serviced apartment project to HanseMerkur Grundvermögen AG. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised i Live Group on the transaction with a team led by Dr. Frank Baßler. The joint venture used crowdfunding on the Zinsland platform to finance the transaction ...

A team led by Dr. Erdem Şişmangil has advised the restaurant chain BIGCHEFS on its market entry in Germany. The comprehensive advice included corporate law, leases, construction law, IT and data pro-tection law as well as media law, employment law, tax law, and public law. On September 5, 2019, the first German branch of BIGCHEFS was opened in the new food court of the Frankfurt shopping center MyZeil (Foodtopia). BIGCHEFS was founded in the Turkish capital Ankara in 2007 ...

Resolution No. 17405 of August 29th, 2019. As of September 4TH, 2019, The National Immigration Authority (hereinafter “SNM” for its acronym in Spanish) established new requirements to request Rehabilitation of Permanent Residence Permits (hereinafter “Rehabilitation”) for foreigners, who have remained outside of Panama for more than two (2) years and up to six (6) years ...

In two separate but equally historic steps, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has named Stacey Borowicz and Ashley Pack as the new office managing partners in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia, respectively. Borowicz’s promotion makes Dinsmore the highest-rated female-led law firm in Columbus, and Pack is now the youngest woman leading a Dinsmore office in the entire nation ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported another strong year for deals, with the value of transactions rising by 10% (£13.4 billion) in the 2019 financial year to 30 April. The team completed 167 deals with a combined value of £145.4 billion, up from 162 deals valued at £132 billion in 2017/18 ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has confirmed the opening of a Glasgow hub, building on the success of its Edinburgh office and further extending Shoosmiths’ operational footprint in Scotland. Barry McKeown, who recently joined Shoosmiths growing real estate team as a partner, is responsible for further developing the firm’s presence in the west of Scotland. The hub is based within the Spaces development on West Regent Street in Glasgow city centre ...

On 30 August 2019, Sokheng Say (DFDL Partner and Head of the Regional Accounting Advisory Practice Group) was invited to speak at a CamEd Business School event: Career Paths in Accounting, Auditing and Tax. This event was organized for the benefit of students who are studying and newly graduated students looking to join the accounting, audit and tax industry in Cambodia. Sokheng gave a presentation on Career Paths in the Accounting Profession ...

Senior executives from Mainstream Renewable Power Chile and lawyers from Carey and Morales & Besa, marked the kickoff of the financing of the second portfolio of the Mainstream Renewable Power renewable energy project platform called Huemul. This portfolio, which includes three wind and two solar projects for a total of 621 MW, involves a bank financing of around US$550 million ...

DFDL were proud to host a networking event on 2 September 2019 welcoming a visiting Victoria University of Wellington (“ VUW ”) delegation from New Zealand to Phnom Penh. The purpose of the event was to forge closer business ties between Cambodia and New Zealand and explore business and investment opportunities that could be pursued in Cambodia through mutual cooperation and potential bilateral partnerships ...

World Services Group (WSG) is pleased to announce that Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (Bradley) has joined the WSG network as the exclusive legal member for Alabama and Mississippi. The addition of such a prominent law firm in the Southeastern region of the United States exemplifies the purposeful expansion of WSG membership. Founded in 1870 in Alabama, Bradley is a national general practice firm that exemplifies excellence among independent law firms doing business globally ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today the addition of Joanne L. Zimolzak to its Insurance Industry Group and Business Litigation Practice as a Member in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Zimolzak joins Dykema after practicing at LeClairRyan. Prior to LeClairRyan, she served as the Office Managing Partner of the Dentons LLP Washington, D.C., office ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 26 of its attorneys from the firm’s four Texas offices—and from multiple practice areas—were named to the 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list by Texas Super Lawyers Magazine. In March of this year, 13 of the Firm’s attorneys were also included on the 2019 Texas Rising Stars list. Of those recognized, both Chris Kratovil and Deborah Williamson were each included on Super Lawyers “Top Lists ...

Shoosmiths will work closely with WeWork, a global space, community and service company and will focus, in particular, in providing legal advice in the following key areas in the UK and Ireland, Employment; Commercial; Corporate; and Health & Safety and Environmental. WeWork is present in 111 cities and 29 countries with over 527,000 members globally and 40% of these being enterprise clients. The WeWork panel review was led by Sarah Nelson Smith, Regional General Counsel, EMEA ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce three of its attorneys have been named to the Michigan Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list for 2019. Attorneys selected for the Super Lawyers list have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Those on the Rising Stars list are being recognized as the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state of Michigan. Dinsmore attorney recognized as Super Lawyers are listed below: Super Lawyers Andrey T ...

Ashley C. Pack has been named the office managing partner of Dinsmore’s Charleston office, making her the firm’s youngest woman in such a role. “This is a huge honor,” Pack said. “I am excited to work with the attorneys and staff here in Charleston, continuing to build on our reputation and service to the community. I am also eager to work with and develop our young lawyers.” Pack, a partner at Dinsmore, is a labor and employment lawyer ...

Morgan & Morgan and 3 lawyers of the firm are nominated in the first edition of the Latin American Energy and Infrastructure Awards, an event organized by the Iberian Legal Group and its publication The Latin American Lawyer, with the aim to recognize the excellence and achievements of professionals in the energy and infrastructure sector in the region. The nominations include the following categories: Law firm of the Year - Panama. Lawyer of the Year - Inocencio Galindo, Ramón Varela ...

SMS Latinoamérica professionals are designated reviewers by the International Integrated Reporting Council. SMS specialists in Integrated Reports will join as reviewers in the program that supports the implementation of the IR framework by sharing investors and integrated reporting specialists views of integrated reports, improve understanding of current global progress on integrated reporting and identify opportunities for improvement ...

The DORDA Digital Industries Group headed by Axel Anderl advised the Danish Tech StartUp Too Good To Go (TGTG) on the launch of its operations in Austria. Too Good To Go offers a sustainable solution against the waste of food. The TGTG App allows businesses such as bakeries, restaurants, cafés, hotels and supermarkets to sell surplus food to self-collecting customers at a substantially reduced price ...

A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein advised DATAGROUP on the acquisition of parts of IT-Informatik GmbH from insolvency. DATAGROUP takes over all shares in Mercoline GmbH and in IT Digitalizacion 4.0 Industrial Internacional S.L., as well as employees and assets of IT-Informatik GmbH. IT-Informatik GmbH was founded in 1987 in Ulm and is a specialist for SAP consulting and maintenance, cloud infrastructure, and software development ...

A team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Kiel, on the acquisition of Bavarian-based Messring Group. With the August 16 purchase agreement, DMB acquired the crash test technology specialist retroactively as of January 1, 2019. The sellers are the two general managers Robert Weber and Dierk Arp, who will remain general managers of the group ...

With a team led by M&A Partner Boris Dürr, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Primepulse SE and its subsidiary Katek SE on the acquisition of bebro electronic group and eSystems MTG GmbH. The acquisition of bebro and eSystems continues Katek’s expansion as one of Europe’s leading service providers in the electronics sector ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce associate Andrew M. Gammill has been named to the 2020 Leadership Columbus class. The 10-month program brings together a group of professionals from across Columbus to develop leadership skills and ideas to benefit the community as a whole. At Dinsmore, Gammill concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial finance and real estate law ...

Dinsmore and Shohl LLP’s Raymond L. Harrell Jr. has been elected to serve a second term as chair of the West Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. The Young Lawyers Division (YLD) was formed to ease new attorneys into the practice of law and the West Virginia legal community. It hosts events that provide lawyers social and intellectual opportunities to network among peers, and it helps them learn and grow their legal practice ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Christian Gonzalez has been named vice president of membership of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). Gonzalez will serve on the organization’s national board of governors. He is also a member of Dinsmore’s Board of Directors, Finance Committee, the Diversity Committee and Co-Chairs the firm’s Recruiting Committee ...