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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Rasul M. Raheem to its Financial Services Litigation Practice Group as a Senior Counsel in the firm’s Detroit office. Raheem joins Dykema with nearly 30 years of experience as in-house counsel to banking entities, including serving as Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel with Bank of America, as well as time with LaSalle Bank Corp. and Michigan National Bank ...

November 7, 2018 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – Hanson Bridgett is continuing their commitment to legal diversity by organizing the 16th Annual 1L Interview Workshop. This year's workshops took place in Sacramento on October 27 and San Francisco on November 3. The program was born in 2002 out of a conversation between a Hanson Bridgett partner and a first-year law student ...

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our founder, Juan Manuel Pellerano Gómez, this past Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 at age 91, due to natural causes, in the peace of his home surrounded by his family, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Dr. Pellerano Gómez was a constitutional scholar, author of books and specialized publications, university professor, teacher and mentor of generations of lawyers, widely recognized by the national and international legal community ...

DUBAI – Monday 5 November 2018 – On 31 October 2018 Afridi & Angell obtained three favorable orders in CFI-015-2018 ((1) ED&F Man Capital Markets MENA Limited (2) ED&F Man Capital Markets Limited v (1) Sayyed Hussain (2) RJ O’Brien MENA Capital Limited (3) Stephen Ghallami) after successfully defending an anti-suit injunction, an application to exclude evidence and obtaining a document production order, all of which set important precedents for litigation in the DIFC Court ...

On November 2, 2018, IFLR 1000 published the 2019 edition of the Financial and Corporate guide and NNDKP is ranked in the first tier of all four practice areas researched in Romania: • Banking and Finance • Capital Markets • M&A • Project Development Since 2005, the beginning of the IFLR 1000 research in Romania, NNDKP is proud to have been ranked as a tier 1 firm in all four practice areas ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and his team legally advised asknet AG’s rights issue to finance their growth plan. The public offering was one of the first capital measures using a short securities information sheet instead of a prospectus. The securities information sheet had to be permitted by BaFin to be published ...

For a second year, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has named Dinsmore & Shohl LLP a top performer among its member law firms. The distinction is given based on demonstrated action and commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive legal profession. Nationally, only 35 law firms received the designation ...

<p>12th Annual IBA Law Firm Management Conference will be held on December 7^th in Radisson Hotel Ukraine, Moscow, Russia.</p> <p>Senior Partner Vassily Rudomino, IBA Council Member, will moderate Session 3 “Who Will Be Our Next Generation of Partners?” In this session, panelists will discuss how do law firms identify, develop, and promote their “next generation” of leaders ...

The world-renowned legal media publisher, IFLR1000, has recently published firm and lawyer rankings in its 2019 Financial and Corporate Guide. Six Han Kun practice areas and 13 Han Kun lawyers were highly recommended this year. Three practice areas were ranked Tier 1 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has earned top honors in the 2019 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" rankings. Dinsmore received five tier 1 national listings for Commercial Litigation, Corporate, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Mining Law and Public Finance Law. The firm also received 122 first-tier metropolitan listings ...

Buenos Aires, November 1st, 2018. Martínez de Hoz & Rueda (Argentina) and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (USA) assisted Cordillera Solar I S.A. -in its capacity as borrower-, a vehicle of JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that the firm was nationally ranked in 12 practice areas in the 2019 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list, as well as receiving a total of 127 metropolitan rankings representing various areas of law. The U.S ...

Asters is pleased to announce that Oleksii Reznikov has joined the team as a partner focusing on alternative dispute resolution practice as of 1 November 2018. Oleksii Reznikov has extensive experience in business consulting including his 20 years track record as a partner in the top Ukrainian law firms. In 2014 Oleksii put his law practice on hold while focusing on public service as the Kyiv City Council Secretary and Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration. Mr ...

According to the latest report on mergers and acquisitions in 2017 prepared by the British publication Latin Lawyer, Carey was the Chilean law firm with the best participation. From the deals that were informed, Carey led both the table by volume of operations, with USD10,114 million worth of transactions, as well as the table by quantity, with 40 deals, almost doubling its closest competitor ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised Döhler Ventures on the seed C funding round of Waterdrop Microdrink GmbH. As part of the funding round, several investors made total payments that are well into the seven-digit range. Döhler Ventures is an investor in nutrition & technology start-ups with numerous holdings in Europe and the USA. Waterdrop Microdrink GmbH is a Vienna-based start-up whose ‘waterdrop Microdrink’ brand has been the subject of extensive media coverage ...

Ricardo Pellerano, managing partner of Pellerano & Herrera, has been chosen by Revista Mercado in the special edition for its 25th anniversary, among the most outstanding leaders of the Dominican Republic, with exceptional trajectories of power and success in the last 25 years. Ricardo appears on the cover and editorial of the magazine along with renowned personalities in the fields of government, business and entertainment. He is the only figure of the legal industry to appear in this list ...

Han Kun, as the PRC legal counsel to the issuer, has advised Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Stock Code: 1801) on its global offering on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Innovent Biologics, Inc. aims to create a world-class China-based biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes high quality drugs that are affordable to ordinary people ...

Shoosmiths has advised Allied London on a £300m long-term funding partnership with Aviva Investors designed to create Enterprise City at the new St Johns neighbourhood in Manchester. The multi-million pound investment will allow Allied London to deliver more than one million sq. ft. of commercial and leisure space, including TV and film studios, hotel/leisure and various property infrastructure across ten buildings ...

The Danish financial newsletter "Økonomisk Ugebrev" has once again named Plesner 'unofficial Danish champion'. This recognition of Plesner is based on ratings from the three leading international rating agencies The Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, and IFLR1000 ...

The Cologne-based capital market team led by Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised Integrata AG on a squeeze-out under stock corporation law. The shares of the remaining shareholders were transferred to Qualification Star 2 GmbH, which holds 97.97% of Integrata AG’s share capital, against cash compensation. Integrata AG is a member of Cegos Group and a full-service provider of qualification projects, qualification processes, training logistics, and seminars ...

As sole lead manager, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG accompanied the successful placement of a EUR 20 million corporate bond of Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft (DEAG). A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised the bank. Offering an annual coupon of 6%, the bond is listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Open Market. The bond was placed with a wide range of institutional investors primarily from Germany, but also from Luxemburg and Switzerland ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Benchmark Litigation 2019 named the firm as one of only six "Highly Recommended" firms for litigation in the state of Michigan. Benchmark Litigation also named five of Dykema's attorneys “local litigation stars,” as well as listing four of the firm's attorneys as “future stars.” Benchmark Litigation is the only publication to focus exclusively on U.S. litigation ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Kenneth J. Sachs to its Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group as a Member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office. Sachs joins Dykema after practicing in the Troy, Mich., office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., for more than a decade. In his practice, Sachs has extensive experience advising clients regarding employee benefit plans, executive benefit programs and business planning ...

The multi-million pound investment will allow TRI to further enhance its core risk-based monitoring technology platform. Shoosmiths corporate partner Alastair Peet led on the deal, with senior associate Alistair Hammerton, associate Helen Burnell, as well as employment senior associate Nick Vernon, tax partner Tom Wilde, and banking partner Rebecca Mauleverer and associate Charlotte Thomas ...

A team led by Düsseldorf-based Partner Dr. Michael Alberts advised two Swiss stock corporations on behalf of Swiss-based Procimmo AG on the acquisition of a site in Hanau where several building halls with a special real estate concept for “light industrial” are to be developed. The modular concept allows for flexible division and use of the individual building parts that is novel in Germany ...