Press Releases

Dykema is extremely proud to announce that five of the Firm�s Chicago-based attorneys, Elizabeth Darke, Cinthia Motley, Cynde Munzer, Diana Tsai and Rosa Tumial�n, were recognized on the Crain�s Chicago Business special report, �Chicago�s Notable Women Lawyers 2018.� Dykema�s five attorneys represent 3 percent of the entire list, the maximum amount possible for one firm. The list will be published in the July 30 editions of Crain�s Chicago Business ...

The National Law Journal recently ranked Dinsmore & Shohl LLP as the 82nd largest law firm in the nation in its annual survey, the NLJ 500.  Dinsmore also ranked 70th out of the 350 firms eligible on the Women’s Scorecard. This recognition comes on the heels of another industry honor for commitment to the development and retention of female attorneys ...

A team led by Hamburg-based partner Dr. Sönke Görgens advised Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH on the acquisition of five specialty retail centers for the open-end special fund “Perspektive Einzelhandel: Fokus Nahversorgung.” The purchase price of the specialty stores with a total rental space of 43,000 square meters is in excess of EUR 100 million. Patrizia subsidiary Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP is the seller ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Finance Partner Albert Tan helped organize and lead a successful 2nd Annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium in Hong Kong for the Fund Finance Association as a member of its steering and marketing committees. Tan was also part of a panel discussion titled: “Overview of Fund Finance in Asia ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has continued the pattern of rapid growth in its Chicago office, adding associates  Luke S. Curran and Sara Suleiman to the firm’s IP trademark practice group. Curran and Suleiman are the fifth and sixth attorneys to join Dinsmore’s Chicago office in the last two months. The firm recently added 4,000 square feet of office space to accommodate an attorney roster that has grown 44 percent in the last year ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added Young-Eun Park as an associate to the firm’s Louisville office. Park will practice out of the commercial litigation practice group. Park joins Dinsmore from Bingham Greenebaum Doll, where she focused her practice on business, employment, tort, bankruptcy, immigration, and estate disputes. She has litigated a variety of sophisticated litigation matters before the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals ...

The Karanović & Nikolić team, led by Senior PartnerMarjan Poljakand Senior Associates ⃰Ana StankovićandAna Luković, advisedZF Friedrichshafenon the project of opening an electric vehicle parts factory in Pančevo, Serbia. The German company, a global leader specialising in the design, research and development, and manufacturing activities in the automotive industry, laid the foundations and began construction on 21 June 2018 ...

How are start-ups in Israel supported? How can I do business in Israel? What do investors need to prepare for? These were just some of the questions we discussed with our peers at the Israeli law firm of Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co. (FBC) and interested attendees. Ronald Lehmann, Ute Klose-Goldstein, and Dr ...

Han Kun advised and acted as PRC counsel to the joint bookrunners Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited in Uxin Limited's U.S. initial public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Global Market under the stock symbol "UXIN"on June 27, 2018, Beijing Time ...

The Emergency Arbitrator Procedure was unknown in the Romanian arbitration practice until the beginning of 2018, when it was introduced in the New Procedural Rules of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR) ...

Law360 has ranked Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Top 10 law firm for minority attorneys and minority equity partners. The 2018 Diversity Snapshot surveyed more than 300 law firms and highlighted the firms who met or surpassed the national average of minority representation for their size brackets. Among firms of 300 to 599 lawyers, Haynes and Boone ranked 8 for having 10.43 percent minority equity partners. Additionally, the firm tied for 6th for its 19.5 percent of minority attorneys ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Associate Jason Jordan has received the Hershell L. Barnes Ambassador Award from the Texas Tech School of Law. He was recognized at the Texas Tech School of Law alumni reception during the annual State Bar of Texas meeting on June 21. The award is given to an outstanding alumnus who has served as a goodwill ambassador through demonstrating dedication and fellowship to the school and community ...

A team led by Dr. Daniela Hattenhauer, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, successfully assisted Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH in the Europe-wide award procedure for rail vehicles worth hundreds of millions of euros. The winning bid was placed by Škoda Transportation a.s. The advice included the designing of the negotiation procedure, the drafting of the contract, the negotiation of financing, and the support of the procedure up to the contract award to the winning bidder ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek is reinforcing its Information Technology and Data Protection practices when IT and data protection lawyer Dr. Hans Markus Wulf (48) joins its Hamburg office as a salaried partner on July 1, 2018. Wulf has been an equity partner at SKW Schwarz since 2015, where he had expanded the IT & Digital Business department at the Hamburg site since 2013 ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP and seven of its partners, located coast-to-coast from California to Texas to Washington, D.C., were recognized in the 2018 edition of the independently-researched Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000 legal directory. The IAM Patent 1000 is designed to shine a spotlight on the firms and individuals that are deemed outstanding in the patent practice ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP has significantly expanded its international arbitration and litigation capabilities with the addition of four lawyers who have experience handling disputes on behalf of clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, hospitality and hotels. Melanie Willems joins as a partner and head of international arbitration in the London office ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP has joined 33 other major law firms that have pledged to help ensure representation for legitimate asylum seekers and to help reunify children in federal custody with their families. The 34 law firms will work with the legal services community to provide needed services. In a New York Times article, Brad S. Karp and Gary M. Wingens — writing on behalf of the 34 law firms — explained the firms’ commitment ...

Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP is pleased to announce that the fifth edition of “The Law of Shipbuilding Contracts”, the only current English law textbook specifically concerning shipbuilding, will be published in December 2019. The book is a long established guide (the first edition was published in 1991) which is used by shipping industry participants and their commercial and legal advisers worldwide. The new edition will update and expand the current fourth edition, which was published in 2012 ...

The Women and the Law Section of the State Bar of Texas selected Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Lynne Liberato as the 2018 winner of the prestigious Louise B. Raggio Award. The award recognizes an attorney who has actively addressed the needs and issues of women in the legal profession and the community. Liberato received the award at the state bar’s annual meeting in Houston on June 21, 2018 ...

As part of the merger, Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft Hautau GmbH & Co. KG sold 75 percent of the shares in Hautau GmbH to Mayer & Co group and continues to hold a 25 percent interest in Hautau. With the partnership, both family-owned companies are expanding their program allowing them to serve their customers even better in the future. Management and contacts for customers of both companies will remain unchanged. It is also planned to keep the companies’ independent market presence ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added Heather N. Stone as associate of counsel and Dillon D. Jones as an associate to the firm’s San Diego office. Stone will practice out of the employment group and Jones will be focusing on commercial litigation. Stone joins Dinsmore from Cavignac & Associates where she was a human resources risk advisor. She provided advice to, counseled and trained employers on lowering the frequency and severity of employment practice claims ...

Shanghai, June 25, 2018 - International law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners opens in Shanghai, extending the reach of its Far East Hong Kong branch and confirming its international expansion strategy, particularly oriented towards the Chinese market ...

The Best Lawyers International, one of the most respected global peer-review surveys, released its 2019 edition pursuant to which Asters is the Law Firm of the Year in Ukraine in Competition/Antitrust and Corporate Law. Awards "Law Firm of the Year" are determined based on a handful of factors including lawyer ballot feedback, the firm's coverage and scope in the practice area, and the firm's reputation as an expert in this sphere ...

A team led by Frankfurt-based real estate law specialist Dr. Thomas Nickel advised the shareholders of Dreiturm GmbH on the sale of all their shares. The buyers are investors led by entrepreneur and consumer goods specialist Lars Börgel. Lars Börgel has taken over the corporate succession at Dreiturm GmbH as General Manager and co-shareholder. The shares in the company, which is more than 190 years old, were previously held by a family via two Canadian companies and one private individual ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP has received the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) Gold Standard Certification for the seventh year. The certification recognizes law firms that successfully demonstrate that women represent a meaningful percentage of the firm’s equity partners, highest leadership positions, governance and compensation committees, and of their most highly compensated partners ...