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Anthony advises on a wide range of offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions. He is a specialist in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda law and is one of only two partners in Singapore admitted to practise these three key offshore laws. Anthony is also ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by each of The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Asia Business Law Journal ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that seven of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by the National Law Review with “Go-To Thought Leader” awards for their reporting of complex legislative and litigation news, as well as their strategic insight and overall knowledge. The 2022 awards recognize 75 exceptional authors and legal organizations for their contributions, with less than 1% of the National Law Review’s contributing authors recognized each year ...

Canadian pension fund eyes public takeover of Chile’s Hortifrut Elliott Hodgkin 11 January 2023 Linklaters in New York, Carey in Santiago and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima have helped Canadian pension fund manager PSP Investments launch a tender offer to buy the entire public shareholding of Chilean fruit company Hortifrut for US$660 million ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Stephen M. Fernelius has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Energy Practice Group. “Steve brings more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry and has a strong reputation as a leading energy litigator for his work on high-level business disputes and injury cases,” said Bradley Houston Office Managing Partner Robert Ford ...

Charleston, W.Va. — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Erin Jones Adams, Tai Shadrick Kluemper, and James E. Simon were elected as Members of the law firm effective January 1, 2023. Jones Adams rejoined Spilman in late 2021 after a multi-year engagement supporting executive administration and compliance initiatives at a liberal arts college. Her primary areas of practice now include employment law, corporate law, and education law ...

Paris, January 10, 2023 – Jeantet has advised the Tofane Global group, a global leader in international communication solutions, on its acquisition of DIMOCO Messaging, a leading global SMS aggregator. Tofane Global is accelerating its growth in the booming business text messaging market with the acquisition of DIMOCO Messaging from BaseTech Ventures, a leading global SMS aggregator based in Austria and Liechtenstein ...

A Buchalter team led by Sanjay Bhandari recently won a complete dismissal of all charges on behalf of its client in federal Healthcare prosecution. On the eve of trial, facing a flurry of motions by Buchalter and other firms, federal prosecutors abruptly dropped the case ...

The by-invitation-only organisation is highly selective, and all chosen electives must have practiced law in the Academy's area of interest for a minimum of ten years and distinguished themselves as a market leader in their respective jurisdiction. Members are also selected on the basis of having demonstrated significant interest in the continuing development of the law of their country ...

Asters acted as a Ukrainian counsel for JSC Ukrainian Railways in the successful restructurings of loan participation notes issued by Rail Capital Markets plc in the total amount of USD 895 million (one in relation to its USD 300 million 7.875%. loan participation notes due 2026 and another in relation to its USD 594.9 million 8.250% loan participation notes due 2024) ...

Figures reveal that there was a total of 98 Open Market transactions in 2022, a figure that is slightly lower than in 2021 but more than any other year since 2007 demonstrating a robust market since the pandemic. Of the 98 Open Market transactions completed last year, the median price (realty only) of the 87 Open Market Houses sold, was £1,379,625. The nine Open Market flats sold in 2022 had a median price (realty only) of £1,218,750 ...

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology ("CAICT") has led the establishment of the X-Reality and Metaverse Industry Alliance ("XRMA") in an effort to implement China's national development strategy and jointly build the industrial ecology ...

KC status is awarded to practising advocates who have demonstrated considerable skill and excellence in advocacy in difficult cases in the higher courts of England and Wales, or in tribunals or arbitrations. The new members of the King's Counsel will be sworn in by the Lord Chancellor this coming March at Westminster Hall when Claire will join Carey Olsen partner Alex Hall Taylor KC, who was originally appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2020 ...

Kudun and Partners represented Bay Computing Co., Ltd. (“Baycoms”), an IT security system solution provider, on the sale of its retail unit selling computers and peripheral units in specialized stores to Beryl 8 Plus Public Company Limited (“BE8”), a Thai-listed company in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), for a total value of THB 1.439 billion, through a two-tiered transaction. The transactions involved an entire business transfer (EBT) for approximately THB 1 ...

Charleston, W.Va. — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Joseph A. “Jay” Ford, Member attorney in the law firm's Charleston office, was appointed to the West Virginia Commission on Uniform State Laws by Governor Jim Justice. "I'm honored that Governor Justice would appoint me to this position," Ford said ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Huntsville partner David Vance Lucas has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors for the Alabama Germany Partnership (AGP). AGP is a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of the educational, business, cultural, and social relationships among individuals and organizations with ties to both Alabama and Germany ...

Paris, on January 6, 2023 – Jeantet has advised “La Française Real Estate Managers” (REM) in the acquisition, on behalf of an institutional investor, of “The 226”, a VEFA co-living residence in Haningue, a city bordering Basel (Switzerland). This acquisition was carried out with Constructa Les Editeurs Urbains, specialists in development and promotion, a subsidiary of the Constructa Group, the leading independent real estate services platform in France ...

"Supreme Court will consider 'huge' attorney-client privilege case" ABAJOURNAL By Mark Walsh “This is a tax case, but the issue presented is much broader than that,” says Mary-Christine Sungaila, a shareholder with Buchalter law firm in Irvine, California, who filed an amicus brief in support of the unidentified tax law firm on behalf of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel ...

On January 5, 2023, China Business Law Journal published The A-List 2022. The 270 elite lawyers named to the A-List comprise 150 PRC firm practitioners and 120 lawyers from foreign firms who are committed to China-related businesses. They have been widely recognized as authoritative for their outstanding performance in China-related practice, and have impressed their clients with unique legal expertise ...

A Heuking team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at the Cologne office, and Dr. Bodo Dehne, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, legally advised publicly listed Vectron Systems AG on the acquisition of acardo group. acardo group is one of the leading providers of consumer activation in Germany. Based in Dortmund, the company is considered a pioneer in coupon marketing and implements several thousand promotions per year ...

Those promoted to counsel are: London – Max Tetlow (corporate) Jersey - Nienke Malan (corporate), John McCormick, Lauren Glynn and Oliver Lindop (all dispute resolution and litigation) and Sarah Farrow (trust and private wealth)Promotions to senior associate are: Hong Kong - Monique Hansen (dispute resolution and litigation)

Will Manuel was quoted in an article on Law.com that discussed a 2019 case filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) related to religious discrimination claims. The matter involved two Kroger employees who were fired after refusing to wear an apron as part of the store uniform that included a heart logo the employees believed to be promoting the LGBTQ+ community ...

Bradley attorney Aron Beezley was quoted in a Law360’s series on some of the highest profile Top Government Contract cases of 2022. One of the highlighted cases from July regards jurisdiction over a dispute involving a transaction authority agreement from a claims court judge ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that 15 of the firm’s attorneys have been elevated to partner and two attorneys have been elevated to counsel, effective January 1, 2023. The new partners are Sara D. Accardi, J. Mark Adams Jr., Caleb L. Barron, Stanley E. Blackmon, Connor M. Blair, J. Daniel Feltham Jr., Jake M ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Ann Peldo Cargile has been elected president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) effective January 1, 2023. ACREL is the premier organization for real estate lawyers in the U.S. As president, Ms. Cargile will lead more than 1,000 prominent real estate lawyers across the country. She is an active member and Fellow of ACREL and previously served as president elect and vice president and has chaired various committees ...

Hollyport is a leading asset manager that acquires portfolios in the secondary market, with a focus on mature funds. The Fund which is structured as a Jersey Expert Fund has closed with commitments of USD$2.2 billion across the main fund and the overage scheme.The Fund made its first investment in March 2022 and has, to date, entered into acquisition agreements with approximately 15% of its target investment programme ...