Press Releases

Bradley is pleased to announce that Eve L. Pferdehirt has joined the firm’s Houston office as an associate. Ms. Pferdehirt brings a unique legal background to the firm’s Construction Practice Group. She has defended corporations in oilfield and refinery incidents throughout various stages of the litigation and dispute resolution process, including providing post-suit guidance regarding remedial measures. Ms ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm’s trademarks practice, along with partners Timothy L. Capria and Matthew S. DeAntonio, are recognized in the 2023 World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000. Bradley is one of only seven firms recognized in Tennessee as a “Recommended” firm. The WTR 1000 is a unique guide that identifies the top trademark firms and professionals in over 80 key jurisdictions around the globe, focusing exclusively on trademark prosecution and enforcement ...

Chambers and Partners, the world's leading legal directory, recently released its Chambers Global Legal Guide 2023 rankings, which identify top lawyers and law firms across the world. This year, the guide recognizes six Han Kun practice areas and ten firm lawyers ...

Led by Frankfurt-based Partner Dr. Dr. Johannes Blassl, Heuking advised Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank AG on the first crypto securities issue by Siemens AG. Partner Dr. Anne de Boer, Partners Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and Dr. Christoph Gringel, and Associates Linda Karl, Michèle von Lewinski, and Lena Wagner also advised on various aspects of the transaction ...

The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, has recently unveiled its 2023 ranking of PRC firms in Hong Kong, in which Han Kun and multiple partners from the firm's Hong Kong branch were highlighted ...

Bradley partner Lauren Jacques, who serves as the firm’s Nashville office managing partner, was announced as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s 2023 Women of Influence winners. The annual list recognizes 40 businesswomen across 10 categories and includes female leaders in Nashville’s top companies and nonprofits who support their communities and inspire those coming behind them ...

For ten consecutive years, Morgan & Morgan has received the “Leading Lights” recognition in Latin America for the firm´s Pro Bono program. In Panama, only Morgan & Morgan achieved this status, sharing honors with leading regional firms. This distinction is granted annually by Latin Lawyer, who, together with the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, investigates the institutionalization of the practice within the firms and the participation of their legal team ...

Morgan & Morgan Legal advised the majority shareholder group, in a joint venture for the development, construction and operation of a hotel and resort of the Waldorf Astoria chain in Punta Cacique, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The project is a luxury beach resort with an estimated 40 residential units and 190 hotel rooms, for an investment of over US$180,000,000. The project has already begun construction and the hotel is expected to open its doors to guests in 2025 ...

On February 14th, the event “Crisis Update: Sanctions and Countermeasures. Presidential and Government approvals. Regulatory and practical developments” organized by Association of European Businesses was held. German Zakharov, ALRUD Partner, participated in the event as a speaker and spoke on the topic “Government subcommission: new approaches. Practical advice ...

Erla S. Árnadóttir , partner at LEX and María Kristjánsdóttir , attorney at LEX and partner and Managing Director of GH Sigurgeirsson, IP boutique and subsidiary of LEX Law Offices are praised for their work in the field of trademark law in the 2023 edition of the World Trademark Review (WTR 1000) . LEX is top ranked and considered an invaluable partner to its patrons thanks to its exceptionally broad IP and IT expertise and deep experience ...

Eva Margrét Ævarsdóttir and Hjalti Geir Erlendsson , attorneys at LEX recently published an article in the Icelandic business paper Viðskiptablaðið on the EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence and why the EU and various countries, including Norway, France and Germany are adopting legislation on a corporate due diligence duty to protect human rights in a company’s own operations and value chain ...

For the second year in a row, World Trademark Review has awarded Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s trademark group with a Gold ranking in its annual WTR 1000 for 2023. Additionally, five of the Firm’s attorneys earned individual rankings by the publication. In its report, WTR writes that Dinsmore has a deep and diverse bench of trademark experts. “It prides itself on its collaborative approach and service-mindedness and, given client feedback, rightly so ...

What is a registered pledge on shares in a limited-liability company, and how is this security enforced? These questions are answered in the latest episode of News from Poland—Business & Law by Mateusz Tusznio, an advocate and restructuring adviser specialising in banking and finance law and restructuring of corporate debt. Afterwards, Konrad Grotowski, host of the programme, shines a spotlight on how Polish businesses currently view the prospect of replacing the zloty with the euro ...

A team led by Dr. Frank Baßler, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Stuttgart office, advised ESSINGER WOHNBAU GmbH on the sale of a service center to Klinikum Heidenheim gGmbH as part of a forward funding deal. The building complex’s entrance area and first upper floor will house the clinic’s new dialysis area while apartments for clinic employees will be built on the other three floors with completion scheduled for Q1/2024. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

A team led by Dr. Bodo Dehne, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, advised Dutch private equity investor Rhein Invest on the sale of its portfolio company CVS Engineering to the listed Swedish industry group Atlas Copco. CVS Engineering is a European market leader in the field of mobile vacuum pumps and compressors, which has in recent years firmly established itself as the dominant player in the German market ...

A team composed of lawyers from several offices, led by Stuttgart-based Partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, comprehensively advised the shareholders of Supremo Shoes & Boots GmbH, including its managing shareholder Walter J. Weichhart, on the sale of 51% of their shares to Fasbra SE, a subsidiary of Deichmann SE, and accompanied the transaction. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s advice included accompanying the due diligence process as well as drafting and negotiating all agreements as part of the transaction ...

The DFDL Bangladesh team is proud to report that two of our legal experts were the main presenters at a training session for local project developers and potential Commercial and Industrial (“C&I“) consumers, which was organized on 6 February 2023 in Dhaka by GIZ, the main German development agency ...

Buenos Aires, February 10th, 2023. On February 6th, PRO MUJER Servicios Financieros S.A. (“PRO MUJER”) carried out the first issuance in Argentina of a social bond with an absolute focus on gender perspective under the new Simplified and Guaranteed Regime for the issuances of Notes with Social Impact. The issuance stands out for being a historical achievement both in the Argentine and the Latin-American capital markets ...

Shoosmiths’ real estate investment team has acted for the seller on the £305m sale of a nationwide car park portfolio.The law firm advised on all real estate aspects of the transaction, which sees GreenPoint Partners acquire 37 car parks located across England, Wales and Scotland. The sites are primarily operated by NCP and comprise nearly 15,000 spaces ...

Recently, the Private Equity Association of Shanghai ("PEAS") published the PEAS 2022 Equity Investment List, in which Han Kun is again recognized as "Best Legal Counsel". PEAS publishes the list as a way to actively implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, advance the financial sector to support high-quality real economy growth, and uphold the concept of supporting Shanghai to develop into an international financial center ...

LEX Law Offices was SKEL and Skeljungur’s advisor on the purchase of Klettur – sala og þjónusta ehf. Skeljungur, a subsidiary of SKEL investment company, officially completed the purchase of Klettur – sala og þjónusta ehf. today and Kristján Már Atlason took the position as CEO of the company. Concurrently SKEL investment company took over Klettagarður 8-10 ehf., the company that owns and operates the building that houses part of Klettur’s operations ...

On February 9, 2023, AmCham Russia's Legal Affairs Committee held to discuss the new landscape of cross-border dispute resolution and arbitration. Denis Bekker, ALRUD Senior Associate, Advocate, acted as a guest expert. In his speech Denis spoke about the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Russia. The Legal Affairs Committee focuses on the analysis of legislative and legal issues influencing the investment climate in Russia ...

On February 9, experts of Corporate/M&A Practice held the webinar 'Foreign Business in Russia: How to manage your divestment in 2023?' It has been almost a year since foreign companies started divestment of their Russian assets. During this period ALRUD has been successfully steering the clients through complex and ambiguous legal landscape providing full service legal support at every stage of exit process ...

On February 9, 2023, China Business Law Journal announced its "Deals of the Year 2022", which highlights 15 Han Kun-advised deals. The legal market has shown great resolve and imagination in what has been another challenging year. In China and abroad, scores of representative deals have demonstrated lawyers' wisdom and work ethic. Some deals have turned the tide, some have saved the day, and some have offered hope for the coming year ...

Bradley attorney Christopher Friedman was quoted in National Mortgage News on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) warning to digital mortgage shopping platforms. The CFPB’s stance suggests that these platforms could violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act’s anti-kickback rules by providing prominent placement of a lender on their sites based on compensation rather than neutral decision criteria ...