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As seen in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (subscription required). Dinsmore & Shohl LLP continues to grow its Chicago office, welcoming Miyoung Shin and Stephanie Crigler as attorneys in the Intellectual Property department. Shin is a partner and experienced patent attorney who holds a degree in electrical engineering and has extensive knowledge on a wide range of technical fields ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that Jill Wheaton and Alexis Schostak were both recognized on the Crain’s Detroit Business inaugural special report on Notable Women Lawyers in Michigan. According to Crain’s, the most Notable Women Lawyers in Michigan set legal precedent, navigate the complexities of mergers and acquisitions and manage high-profile cases ...

China Business Law Journal recently published its 2017 List of China's Top 100 Lawyers (the "A-List"). The A-List includes 100 top lawyers who have demonstrated outstanding performance in China-related business and have impressed their clients with excellent professional skills. From this list, you can find lawyers who are regarded as authorities in the industry. Han Kun partners Charles Li and Chen Ma were selected for their outstanding performance ...

On December 7, 2017, Chambers & Partners, the world's foremost legal media publisher, released its Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018 guide, as well as its 2018 rankings of PRC lawyers. 8 Han Kun practice areas were ranked this year and four of them were recognized as Band 1. 10 Han Kun lawyers were highly recommended this year ...

Delaware's Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights III granted a partial summary judgment for The HC Companies, Inc., ("HC"), ruling on Dec. 5 that Myers Industries, Inc. owes HC $8.6 million in escrow funds. The decision highlights the Delaware Chancery Court’s commitment to enforcing the terms of agreements negotiated by sophisticated parties. Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner David Harper and Associates Stephanie Sivinski and Sally Dahlstrom represented HC Companies in the case ...

On Dec. 5, Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers and staff helped load The Salvation Army DFW's antique fire engine and waiting trucks with hundreds of bags of Christmas gifts donated for Angel Tree recipients. With a firm-wide effort coordinated through the library, Haynes and Boone lawyers and staff adopted 140 angels through the program this year, providing clothes, toys and other items for children, teens and some seniors whose families couldn't afford gifts ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP has successfully represented Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. as issuer's counsel in its private offering of $500 million of 5.500 percent senior notes due 2026 and $500 million of 5.750 percent senior notes due 2028. The offering closed on Dec. 7, 2017. Haynes and Boone also represented Endeavor in its cash tender offers for its outstanding 7 percent senior notes due 2021 and 8.125 percent senior notes due 2023. The tender offers also settled on Dec. 7, 2017 ...

Advised by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Munich-based DOMICIL Real Estate Group acquired the LivING residential real estate portfolio in Ingolstadt. The portfolio consists of 21 buildings comprising 508 residential units and 236 parking spaces. It was sold by the open-ended public AIF Wertgrund WohnSelect D as part of a structured bidding process in which DOMICIL prevailed. A real estate team from various offices and across several legal fields led by Düsseldorf-based real estate partner Dr ...

A team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek led by Dr. Peter Ladwig advised sensor and automation specialist Balluff GmbH on the acquisition of software company iss innovative software services GmbH and of machine vision pioneer Matrix Vision GmbH Bildverarbeitung. AS part of the transactions, which were negotiated in parallel, Balluff acquired 100% of iss innovative software services, while the previous shareholders of Matrix Vision retain a 25% stake in the company ...

Dinsmore & Shohl announces 59 of its attorneys have been named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list and the Rising Stars list for 2018. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in Ohio. Dinsmore attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers & Rising Stars are listed below: SUPER LAWYERS CINCINNATI Gary E ...

Dinsmore & Shohl announces 56 of its attorneys have been named to the Kentucky Super Lawyers list and the Rising Stars list for 2018. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in Kentucky. Dinsmore attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers & Rising Stars are listed below: Super Lawyers – Frankfort Lloyd R ...

We are delighted to announce that Shearn Delamore & Co. has won the coveted award of Malaysia Firm of the Year at the inaugural Asialaw Asia Pacific Legal Practice Awards 2017 held in Hong Kong on 28th November 2017. Shearn Delamore & Co was also named the Tax Firm of the Year for the Asia-Pacific region and this high level recognition of our Tax and Revenue practice group firmly places us at the forefront of tax and revenue practice in the region ...

A TEAM led by Manchester-based corporate partner Tim Jackson-Smith has advised on a major private equity investment deal at one of the UK’s leading automotive technology firms. Working against a tight deadline, the Shoosmiths team supported the shareholders of Xtrac, a world leader in the design and manufacturer of high performance transmissions for the motorsport and automotive industry, in the buyout deal with Inflexion Private Equity ...

For the second year in a row, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has been named one of the top five health care law practices in the Midwest region by the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section. The Section’s list ranks health law practices within five regions, with the Midwest including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin ...

Haynes and Boone was recognized across the board for client service in the BTI Consulting Group's Client Service A-Team ranking for 2018. The firm was named to BTI's "Client Service Honor Roll" in all 17 of the 17 activities that clients consider the drivers of superior client relationships. This was the 15th straight year for Haynes and Boone to be listed in the "Client Service A-Team" ranking and the first time the firm was highlighted in all categories measured ...

In its November 2017 cover story on the 2017 Asia Top 50, ALB lists SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan as the largest law firm in the Philippines. ALB's Asia Top 50 is an annual list of Asia's largest law firms by headcount. Read the rest of the article at the SyCipLaw website: http://syciplaw.com/news/articles/fa/272#.WidIddKWbIU ...

AELEX Arbitration Practice Group is delighted to have been awarded the exclusive right to provide updates on Nigeria for the International Law Office (ILO) Arbitration & ADR Newsletters. ILO delivers expert legal commentary, in the form of concise weekly newsletter emails to senior corporate counsel and law firm partners worldwide. The ILO newsletters have been providing tailored, quality-assured updates on global legal developments to more than 50,000 registered subscribers since 1998 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Richard L. Lieberman to its Taxation Practice Group as senior counsel in the firm’s Chicago office. Lieberman joins Dykema after spending more than eight years as a partner with Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., where he served as Chair of the firm’s Tax and Employee Benefits practice. Prior to that, he was a principal at Deloitte Tax LLP for more than a decade ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised leading software component provider ComponentSource Limited on its move to new premises in Reading. ComponentSource will take up a new 10 year lease from 1 January 2018 at the innovative office development, The White Building, Reading. Established in 1995, ComponentSource is the world’s largest B2B pure play distributor, reseller and marketer of developer tools and software components for application developers ...

Hungary's OTP Bank bought Vojvođanska Banka, as well as NGB Leasing and the National Bank of Greece's corporate loan portfolio in Serbia. This is one of the biggest recent banking transactions in the region and it was closed on Friday, the 1st of December in Belgrade. Karanović & Nikolić advised the buyer – OTP Bank, one of the leading banks in Central and Eastern Europe, throughout all of the stages of the acquisition process ...

National law firm Shoosmiths is celebrating after being named 'Asset Finance Legal Provider of the Year' at the European Leasing Life Awards last night. Representatives from Shoosmiths' asset finance team included partner and national head of asset finance, Melanie Chell and asset finance partners Stephen Dawson and Roger Potgieter who flew to Amsterdam, to attend the annual conference and to collect the accolade at the following awards ceremony, held at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky ...

Pellerano & Herrera and The Legal 500, internationally recognized British publisher, hosted in Santo Domingo the third reception for corporate counsels and legal teams of renowned Dominican companies ...

The Diversity Law Institute, a nonprofit international association committed to inclusion in the legal professional and justice systems in the United States and Canada, honored Haynes and Boone, LLP for the firm's "excellence, involvement and efforts" to further diversity within the legal profession. The award was presented at the 2017 Diversity Law Institute Summit & Awards in Philadelphia Nov. 3 ...

Continuing a pattern of major market growth while also rounding out its presence across Ohio, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has established a Cleveland office located in North Point Tower downtown. The office opening coincides with the arrival of intellectual property attorneys and staff who come to Dinsmore from McDonald Hopkins LLC ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP welcomes Elvira Cortez to its San Diego office as an associate in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Cortez comes to Dinsmore from Sullivan Hill, where she was responsible for developing defense strategy in complex, multi-million dollar construction defect cases. She successfully negotiated favorable settlements for large general contractors and subcontractors. Cortez has also represented businesses in resolving commercial and employment disputes ...