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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP partners J. Michael Cooney and Karen K. Gaunt have received top honors among the city’s Super Lawyers®, a Thomson Reuters designation based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Cooney was included in the Top 50: 2018 Cincinnati Super Lawyers® list and recognized as “Top Rated Estate Planning and Probate Attorney in Cincinnati ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Barbara Edelman, Donna King Perry and Kathryn Quesenberry have been recognized as three of Kentucky’s best female attorneys in their respective fields. All three were listed in the “Top 25: 2018 Women Kentucky Super Lawyers®” rankings, which are compiled by Thomson Reuters and based on peer recommendations and professional experience ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Butch Hulse to its Commercial Litigation Practice Group as a member in the firm’s San Antonio office. Hulse, who joins Dykema after nearly a decade serving as in-house counsel and later Chief Compliance Officer with Acelity (formerly Kinetic Concepts, Inc.), is a former Shareholder with Cox Smith Matthews, which combined with Dykema in May 2015 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Michael P. Adams to its Intellectual Property & Intellectual Property Litigation Group as a member in the firm’s Austin office. Adams joins Dykema after practicing in Jackson Walker L.L.P.’s Austin office. For almost 30 years, Adams has focused his practice on patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, with an emphasis on the procurement, due diligence, licensing and litigation of intellectual property rights ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP is pleased to announce that President Donald Trump nominated Partner Jeremy D. Kernodle to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. "Jeremy's clients and colleagues have come to rely on his consummate litigation skills, impeccable judgment and even-keeled temperament - attributes that will allow him to be an equally fair and effective judge," said Haynes and Boone Managing Partner Tim Powers ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Eric T. Fingerhut has been appointed as the Office Managing Member of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He succeeds Paul Laurenza, who served in the role for eight years. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Dykema’s Washington, D.C ...

Eight Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers were recognized among Fort Worth Magazine's 2017 Top Attorneys. The annual listing highlights "the best lawyers in town, as voted for by their peers." The magazine, published by Panther-City Media Group, added: "We asked a group of 25 highly regarded lawyers in the area to review the list prior to publication, and make recommendations on other lawyers who should be on the list, and even ones who should come off for any reason ...

A team led by Dr. Pär Johansson from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advised German investment firm Odewald KMU II, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the acquisition of Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH from Nordwalde. Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH specializes in installing and modernizing door drives for elevators and safety doors on or in machinery ...

<strong>Charleston, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/eric_iskra/details">Eric W. Iskra</a> was re-elected to the firm's Management Committee, continuing his leadership as Member in Charge of Client Relations. He has served in this role since 2004 ...

January 18, 2018 - Madrid, Spain. Pellerano & Herrera has released today in the University of Nebrija of Madrid, the publication "Convenios Bilaterales entre Republica Dominicana y el Reino de Espana" during an event attended by academics, businessmen and diplomats ...

Panama, January 4, 2018. The Executive Organ approved at the end of December, a 6.5% minimum salary adjustment for large companies, which became law of the Republic of Panama and applies from January 1st, 2018 to December 31st, 2019 ...

Michael Schmittmann, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office and renowned media lawyer, successfully represented the Saxon State Institute for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM) against the Free State of Saxony. In its December 19, 2017 judgement, the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen ruled that, contrary to the first-instance judgement of Leipzig Administrative Court, the action by SLM against a supervisory complaint of the State Chancellery would be upheld ...

Asters acted as a legal counsel to METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine against the Antimonopoly Committee in an alleged retail cartel case. On 5 December 2017, the High Commercial Court of Ukraine rendered the final decision in the case that had been litigated for more than two years ...

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan has been recommended by The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2018 as a Top Tier Firm in 15 practice areas in the Philippines: Aviation, Banking and finance, Capital markets, Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Immigration, Intellectual property, Labour and employment, Law firms in Cebu, Law firms in Davao, Projects and energy, Real estate and construction, Shipping, Tax, and Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Barbara Menefee has been invited to join the 2018 Bingham Fellows Program. She and her cohorts will focus on leadership as it relates to the year’s selected topic, “A Safe and Thriving City: Strengthening Our Community’s Ability to Prevent Violence.” An experienced immigration attorney, Menefee assists companies across the U.S ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added associate Lisa R. Whisler to the firm’s Pittsburgh office and commercial litigation practice group. Whisler comes to Dinsmore from Thomson, Rhodes & Cowie, P.C., where she litigated a variety of matters related to premises liability, asbestos, automobile and trucking, employment, medical malpractice and insurance coverage disputes ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP represented The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd, as Administrative Agent ("Agent") to a large group of international commodity finance banks in their successful recovery of more than $2 billion in debt owed by Noble Americas Corp. ("Noble Americas") - a full recovery of all amounts owed to the bank syndicate under the company's U.S. borrowing base facility. On Jan ...

Asters acted as a Ukrainian law counsel to International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, in connection with over EUR 30 million loan to IMMER Group, a leading Eastern European producer of flexible packaging. IFC’s financing package, which includes 15 million euro in debt mobilized from other lenders, is designed to support growth of IMMER Ukrplastic, Ukraine’s largest manufacturer of flexible packaging materials whose production facilities are based in Kyiv ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP proudly announces the promotion to counsel of nine firm associates, representing six practice areas from our Chicago, Dallas, London, New York and San Antonio offices. The new group of counsel comprises Fiona Cain, Jamie Carter, Teena Grewal, Sarah Jacobson, Cesar Ramirez, Aaron Taggart, Lauren White, Jason Whitney and Helen Conybeare Williams ...

After winning the Law Firm of the Year awards in 2014 and 2017, Karanović & Nikolić is once again a finalist for this prestigious recognition. The awards, now in their ninth year, are organised by The Lawyer, a prestigious British weekly magazine for lawyers and in house counsel. According to the organisers, this year's contest is particularly fierce. The Lawyer awards are meant to reward and celebrate excellence across the European legal market ...

Morgan & Morgan acted as Panamanian counsel to Grupo Eleta in the sale of a minority stake in the Pear Island Project to the Grivalia Group, a global real estate investment company. Pedro Gonzalez Island (Pearl Island) is located at Archipelago Las Perlas, Pacific Ocean. The project consists of the integrated development of approximately 1,600 hectares of the island, including an airport, several hotels, a town center, several marinas, among others amenities ...

Victory for 1. FSV Mainz 05 e. V. (Mainz 05), the Bundesliga soccer league, and all teams in professional team sports: On January 16, 2018, the Federal Labor Court ruled for the first time that time limits are effective for players in team sports, specifically in Bundesliga soccer (Case: 7 AZR 312/16). Employment lawyer Dr. Johan-Michel Menke, partner at the Hamburg office of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, successfully advised Mainz 05 on the appeal and the legal review by the court ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has elected attorneys R. Kenyon Meyer and Lee Stautberg to its board of directors. Meyer and Stautberg will occupy the positions vacated by Christopher Benintendi and Richard Clay, who were forced to leave the board due to term limits. R. Kenyon Meyer is a partner in the litigation department and office managing partner of the firm’s Louisville office ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Dan Harkins has been appointed to serve the firm as Director of its Intellectual Property (IP) Department, a team focused on counselling clients in all aspects of the procurement, management, and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights. For more than 25 years, Harkins has advised clients on how best to protect and enhance their intellectual property assets ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Aschheim-based Munich Brand Hub AG on converting receivables from a bond issued by Laurèl GmbH into shares in Munich Brand Hub AG (“debt-to-equity swap”). The company was also advised on listing the shares on the Munich Stock Exchange. Laurèl GmbH is an international fashion company whose assets were subject to insolvency proceedings under its own administration. In 2012, the company had issued a bond with a total volume of EUR 20 million ...