Press Releases

Morgan & Morgan Legal acted as Panamanian counsel to Cinven, through one of their US companies, Environmental Science US, INC. as purchaser, with respect to the acquisition of the assets of Bayer, S.A. in Panama. Cinven, an international private equity firm, acquired all the assets in multiple jurisdictions of Bayer Environmental Science, a subsidiary of Bayer AG. This acquisition involved complex legal aspects from Panama and Germany ...

Recently, the 2022 China Intellectual Property & Science and Innovation Forum was successfully held in Beijing. This year's forum, themed "Intellectual Property: A Pillar of China's National Security", was steered by senior science and engineering academicians, with attendees that included government officials, experts in various fields, and representatives of corporate giants in the automobile, chip, and new energy industries ...

In addition, the Bermuda office of the firm has been awarded Tier 2 rankings for all other categories: banking, finance and capital markets; corporate and commercial; insurance/reinsurance; and regulatory and compliance ...

11 November 2022. Buchalter is pleased to announce it has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado with the addition of six attorneys and other professional staff. Shareholders Robert Hinckley, Scott Evans, and Steve Segal join in Denver with the addition of Attorney Sarah Andrzejczak who joins with Hinckley. Also joining the new office is Michael Williamson, Shareholder and Firm-wide Chair of Buchalter’s Real Estate and Community Development Practice along with Of Counsel Michael Flynn ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that partner Gary L. Howard has been appointed to a one-year term as vice chair of the Defense Research Institute’s (DRI) Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Mr. Howard is a member of Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group and has more than 25 years of experience representing corporations in class actions, complex litigation, fraud and bad-faith actions, contract and business disputes, mass tort actions and a variety of insurance matters. Mr ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Marc James Ayers has been appointed to serve on the Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure by the Alabama Supreme Court. A partner in Bradley’s Birmingham office, Mr. Ayers represents individual, corporate, and government clients before state and federal appellate courts throughout the country. He has also represented clients on petitions for certiorari and amicus curiae briefs to the U.S ...

Leading law firm MinterEllison has advised Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) on designing and implementing its second Victorian Renewable Energy Target reverse auction program (VRET2). The program provides investment certainty in the construction of new energy generation projects. VRET2 aims to ensure that 40% of the State's electricity generation comes from renewable sources by 2025 and 50% by 2030 ...

Morgan & Morgan Legal acted as Panamanian legal counsel to Cirsa Finance International S.à.r.l. (the “Issuer”), in connection with the offering (the “Offering”) pursuant to the final offering memorandum dated October 26, 2022 (the “Offering Memorandum”) of €425,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 10.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”), issued by the Issuer and guaranteed by its direct parent, Cirsa Enteprises, S.L.U ...

LATAM completes Chapter 11 Lily Squires 09 November 2022 A slew of US and Latin American firms have helped LATAM Airlines exit from its Chapter 11 proceedings, putting an end to a landmark cross-border restructuring that began over two years ago ...

The textbooks for the 2023 Corporate Compliance Officer Examination, jointly authored by an expert group under organization by the Corporate Compliance Committee of China Enterprise Evaluation Association, have been officially published recently by China Legal Publishing House. Han Kun partner Da SHI, serving as a member of the expert group, contributed the antitrust compliance section of the textbooks ...

On November 8, 2022, Han Kun was selected as one of EqualOcean's "China Top 10 Professional Services for Globalization 2022" at the 2022 EqualOcean Summit for Globalization (ESG2022) held in Shanghai. The award highlights ten professional service providers that have made outstanding contributions this year to promising Chinese entrepreneurs / innovative companies in their quest to break into the global market ...

Buenos Aires, November 9th, 2022. On November 1st, Beccar Varela formally inaugurated its Public Affairs Department, becoming the first full-service law firm in Argentina to make official this practice area. Camila Corvalán, a senior associate specializing in government relations, competition and antitrust, and international trade, will lead the new department made up of an experienced team ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm has been named the “Law Firm of the Year” in the area of Litigation – Construction in the 2023 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms," the fourth time the firm has been recognized for its construction practice since 2018. Bradley also was named “Law Firm of the Year” for Construction Law in the 2022, 2020 and 2018 editions ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm is the recipient of Bank of America’s 2022 Law Firm Pro Bono Award, which was presented to the firm at a recognition event in November. The Bank of America’s annual Law Firm Pro Bono Award is given to a law firm that has demonstrates an exemplary commitment to pro bono service, particularly in partnership with Bank of America ...

Bradley attorney Ben Dachepalli was selected as the next general counsel for Tampa Bay’s Economic Development Council (EDC) last week, and he spoke with Law360 regarding the appointment and his future with the EDC ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm has launched the blog Eye on Enforcement, which focuses on the latest trends in government investigations and enforcement activity. “Our government enforcement attorneys understand the challenges businesses face in today’s complex enforcement environment ...

Joanna Werner, attorney-at-law in the Banking & Project Finance practice at Wardyński & Partners, focuses on the forthcoming landmark changes to the Polish and European regulatory environment surrounding crypto assets and their impact on how companies in this innovative area do business in Poland and the EU. Konrad Grotowski, host of the programme, talks about natural gas from Norway delivered to Poland via the Baltic Pipe pipeline, opened on 27 September ...

The DFDL team was proud to team up with the American Chamber of Commerce of Vietnam to present a panel discussion on M&A transactions at The Reverie Saigon on 01 November 2022 ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Emily M. Ruzic, an associate in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been named the recipient of Bradley’s 2022 Cameron J. Miller Award for Excellence and Community Service. This annual award honors an associate who exemplifies the excellence of Cameron Miller, who died in June 2012 after battling cancer his first year as an attorney at Bradley. The award includes a donation to a charity in Mr. Miller’s memory ...

Today, CLESS unveiled its inaugural 2022 Award for Top Legal Practitioners in the Greater Bay Area. Han Kun partner Bing Xue has been named to the list. The award was inaugurated as a response to China's blueprint for developing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is the result of a two-month selection process where candidates were carefully evaluated in terms of their education background, area of expertise, and location of practice, among other considerations ...

The event has returned after a two-year hiatus as a much-expanded international event with an impressive range of speakers and delegates. The conference was co-chaired by Vice Chairman of STEP Bermuda, Ashley Fife, counsel at Carey Olsen while Stephanie Bernard, also counsel at Carey Olsen, was a member of a panel that considered trustees investing in digital assets ...

Astra Digital aims to be at the forefront of digital innovation and well placed to benefit from the volatility of the digital assets market using a diversified, risk-adjusted approach. Asset manager ARTE Capital will be providing seed capital and its SFC-regulated platform to the fund as well as operational support. In turn, Astra Digital will be providing digital asset expertise, research and institutional business support ...

The bonds were issued by Addition Finance (Jersey) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avacta incorporated in Jersey.  The proceeds of the bond issue were on lent to Avacta.  Application will be made to list the bonds on The International Stock Exchange.  A Jersey cash box structure is a well-established financing tool for facilitating access by UK listed companies to immediate funding by way of a convertible bond issue ...

The China Banking Association recently published its China Consumer Finance Corporation Development Report 2022 (hereinafter, the "Report"), organized by the Professional Consumer Finance Commission of the China Banking Association under the instruction of the Other Non-bank Financial Institution Supervision Department of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. The Report summarizes and analyzes the state of development of consumer finance companies in China over the past year ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the 2023 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" has recognized the firm with five Tier 1 national rankings in the practice areas of Construction Law, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Litigation – Banking & Finance, Litigation – Construction, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants. The firm also earned 159 Tier 1 metropolitan rankings across all 10 of its offices ...