Press Releases

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Arlene Switzer Steinfield, Dallas-based Senior Counsel in the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice, was recently elected to serve as the Treasurer of The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. Her term will commence January 1, 2019. The appointment puts Steinfield in line to become President of the College in 2022 ...

FUNKE MEDIENGRUPPE and SIGNA Holding agreed on a partnership: SIGNA will take over a 49% stake in WAZ Ausland Holding GmbH from FUNKE MEDIENGRUPPE, which in turn holds shares in the “Kronen Zeitung” and “Kurier” newspapers. For the first time, SIGNA is therefore investing not only in real estate and retailing, but also in the media sector. The collaboration will start after approval by the competent antitrust authorities. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

Buenos Aires, 13 November 2018. Beccar Varela advised FCA Compañía Financiera S.A. on its Class XVI notes issuance, carried out under the company’s Global Program for the issuance of short, medium and long-term notes, for a maximum amount of up to US$200 million. Class XVI notes were issued on November 5 in two series, one of which is denominated in UVAs (Unidad de Valor Adquisitivo, adjustable by application of the Inflation Adjustment Index CER) ...

Consulting firm Accenture has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Kolle Rebbe to take over their advertising agency. A team led by Dr. Peter Christian Schmidt, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised the Kolle Rebbe shareholders on the sale. Established in 1994, the agency is characterized by branding campaigns that combine award-winning creative work and digital customer interaction ...

<p>Anton Dzhuplin, ALRUD Partner, heading Banking & Finance Practice and Financial Technology industry, spoke on Russian Law Week 2018 in London on November 12-th.</p> <p>Anton took part as a speaker in the session 'Latest Legal Developments in FinTech' ...

Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (Warburg-HIH Invest) acquired the “Güterhallen” freight halls in Altona from Aurelis Real Estate. A team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised the investment manager on the acquisition. The freight halls with an area of some 15,846 square meters are part of Hamburg’s “Mitte Altona” district development and are to be incorporated into an individual fund. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that Steven C. Liedel, Managing Member of the firm’s Lansing office and Member of its Government Policy & Practice group, will serve as general counsel to Michigan Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer’s transition team. Liedel’s practice focuses on government organization and restructuring, economic development, state constitutional law, and tax policy ...

Han Kun advised and acted as the PRC counsel to CNFinance Holdings Limited (NYSE: CNF) on its U.S. initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. CNFinance is a leading home equity loan service provider in China ...

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 ...