Press Releases

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) announced today the promotion of three lawyers to partnership. This decision reconfirms NNDKP's strategy in stimulating the internal development of its lawyers on all levels of seniority and continues to consolidate its position as a leader of the Romanian business law market ...

Asters acted as a legal counsel to GE Transportation, a division of the General Electric Company, in connection with a USD 1 billion Framework Agreement with Ukrzaliznytsia, the country’s state-owned rail transport company ...

Dinsmore Partner of Counsel Alicia Bond-Lewis is among 28 young leaders selected for membership in the Metropolitan Club’s inaugural Roebling Society. The group’s members come from a variety of sectors, including health care, media, business and nonprofit and were invited to participate in the Roebling Society based on their leadership and contribution in the greater Cincinnati region ...

One in three partners at Central American firm BLP are now women after a promotion in Nicaragua and a hire in Costa Rica, bucking regional diversity norms. Administrative and real estate lawyer Sofia Zuniga, 38, joins the firm’s San José office as senior counsel from Costa Rican law firm Legal & Business Advice, while energy and infrastructure practitioner Claudia Prado, 44, has been promoted in Managua. The firm now counts five counsel and 30 partners across Central America and Spain ...

The "China Literature IPO" deal, where Han Kun acted as the PRC legal counsel to China Literature, has been recognized as "Equity Deal of the Year" at the IFLR Asia Awards 2018. Han Kun is a recognized expert in overseas capital market transactions, and has substantial experience representing PRC issuers and international underwriters ...

James Yong Wang, Esq. has recently been recognized as leading expert for the investment funds field in China by Legal Media Group's 2017 Global Expert Guides for Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Expert Guide. Han Kun is the only PRC law firm listed by the 2017 Expert Guides for investment funds in China ...

A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and Dr. Markus Rabe, Partners at the Cologne and Munich offices of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised credX on establishing a digital marketplace for debt capital. At its start, Deutsche Telekom issued a borrower's note loan with a volume of EUR 50 million and a ten-year term to insurance companies of AXA Group ...

100 countries, 24,200 attendees, 3,100 exhibitors – as the leading international trade show for the real estate sector, MIPIM in Cannes is the meeting place for international decision-makers in the industry. From March 13 to 16, 2018, our real estate law experts will be available to discuss with you current legal issues relating to real estate at the joint booth of the State Capital of Düsseldorf in Riviera Hall 7, Booth R7.G12 ...

● An exceptional alliance, aiming at enhancing the ecosystem for Romanian entrepreneurs and at contributing to internationalization of their businesses, across the European and global economic space. ● Building business bridges within the CEE region represents one of the most important opportunities for businesses throughout the region ...

Pellerano & Herrera represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in two 144A/Reg. S offerings, including a $1 billion aggregate principal amount of bonds due 2048 and a DOP40 billion aggregate principal amount of bonds due 2023. BanReservas acted as co-manager with respect to both series of bonds. The transaction was closed on February 15, 2018 ...

On February 27, 2018, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig issued its eagerly awaited ruling on the admissibility of targeted diesel traffic bans. The German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg had challenged judgments of the Düsseldorf and Stuttgart administrative courts in two "leapfrog appeals ...

The business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek significantly increased its revenue in fiscal 2017. Annual revenue stood at EUR 149.5 million for 2017, EUR 16.1 million above the prior-year figure of EUR 133.4 million, accounting for an increase of 12.1 percent. The firm had already achieved a similarly large increase in 2014, when revenue rose by 12 percent year-over-year. "While our expectations for 2017 were high, they have even been exceeded ...

The business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek significantly increased its revenue in fiscal 2017. Annual revenue stood at EUR 149.5 million for 2017, EUR 16.1 million above the prior-year figure of EUR 133.4 million, accounting for an increase of 12.1 percent. The firm had already achieved a similarly large increase in 2014, when revenue rose by 12 percent year-over-year. "While our expectations for 2017 were high, they have even been exceeded ...

The American Lawyer has named Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Sakina Rasheed Foster to its new Young Lawyer Editorial Board. In announcing members of the group on Feb. 26, Gina Passarella Cipriani, The American Lawyer's editor in chief, said they are "truly representative of the up-and-coming leaders of the profession" and already have brought insights to the publication’s coverage of the legal industry ...

27 February 2018 – Road Town, Tortola – Law firm O’Neal Webster announces that British Virgin Islands attorney Asha Johnson-Willins has joined the firm as a senior associate. Johnson-Willins brings over 14 years’ experience in advocacy, trials, and company law to O’Neal Webster’s litigation, corporate, and property and business practices ...

Chambers Global 2018 has ranked SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan as a Band 1 firm in Corporate & Finance and Projects, Infrastructure & Energy. The following SyCipLaw lawyers were also ranked: - Hector M. de Leon, Jr. - Band 1 in Projects, Infrastructure & Energy - Rocky Alejandro L. Reyes - Band 3 in Corporate & Finance and Recognized Practitioner in Projects, Infrastructure & Energy - Vicente D. Gerochi IV - Band 2 in Corporate & Finance - Mia G ...

The 2018 edition of the Chambers USA directory of top lawyers and law firms has recognized more than 50 Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers, with several partners newly honored this year. The directory publishes in May. Eli Columbus is set to receive a banding, a tiered designation within the Chambers rankings, for the first time. (Bandings are announced in May ...

Hanson Bridgett Announces their 2018 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Attorney Fellow and Pathfinder San Francisco, California, March 1, 2018 – Hanson Bridgett is continuing their commitment to "building a more open and diverse legal profession," with the installment of their 2018 LCLD leaders: Fellow, Gilbert Tsai, and Pathfinder Kaylen Kadotani ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP ranked among the nation's top law firms for lender and borrower representations in syndicated loan transactions in 2017, according to Thomson Reuters' LoanConnector League Tables. In the ranking of the top law firms representing administrative agents and lead arrangers, Haynes and Boone placed 13th based on the number of deals and 14th based on volume, the top Texas-based firm in both categories ...

Landry's, Inc., a privately owned, multi-brand dining, hospitality and gaming corporation that operates (through various subsidiaries and affiliates) more than 600 restaurants, hotels, casinos and entertainment destinations across the United States, has selected Haynes and Boone, LLP as its 2017 national law firm of the year. In selecting the firm, Landry's General Counsel Steve Scheinthal highlighted Haynes and Boone’s role in advising Landry's, Inc., and Golden Nugget, Inc ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised funds advised by Triton on the acquisition of BFC Group, a leading global specialist and technology leader in metal clamping profiles for the automotive industry. A team led by Cologne-based partner Dr. Pär Johansson comprehensively supported Triton in this transaction. BFC Group, based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, is an automotive supplier of metal clamping profiles for vehicle door, trunk, and other body seals ...

Morgan & Morgan advised Banistmo, S.A. in the structuring and registration with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama of US$300,000,000 revolving corporate bonds. The bonds will be issued in different series with maturities ranging from 2 to 15 years and interest rates may be fixed or floating. Banistmo, S.A. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bancolombia, S.A. and is one of Panama’s largest banks with more than US$9MM in assets and deposits that exceed US$6MM ...

Morgan & Morgan advised MMG Bank Corporation in the structuring of a program of revolving short-term notes for US$50,000,000 of Corporacion Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A. (CIFI). The short-term notes were registered with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama. The issuer of the short-term notes is CIFI and MMG Bank acted as arranger and is engaged as bookrunner and paying agent of the short-term notes ...

Morgan & Morgan advised MMG Bank Corporation in the structuring of a program of revolving corporate bonds for US$100,000,000 of Corporacion Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A. (CIFI). The bonds were registered with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama. The issuer of the bonds is CIFI and MMG Bank acted as arranger and is engaged as bookrunner and paying agent of the bonds ...

Ricardo Arias works in the Corporate Law Department of the firm. Mr. Arias holds over ten years of experience advising capital markets transactions. He has represented local and foreign lenders as well as local and foreign developer/borrowers in secured and unsecured financings and project financings. Mr. Arias has been advisor to foreign and local clients on securities placement in Panama and cross-border transactions ...