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SyCipLaw’s Special Projects Department hosted a seminar on the Data Privacy Act of 2012, its implementing rules and the latest circulars of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) last March 24 at the 17th Flr. of the SyCipLaw Center. The session was designed to focus on how the Data Privacy Act (DPA) impacts organizations, compliance requirements, and the process of registering the data processing system with the NPC ...

On Friday, May 5, 2017, the creditors agreed to the insolvency plan submitted jointly by VfR Aalen (Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 e.V. Aalen), represented by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and the insolvency administrator Dr. Holger Leichtle of Schultze & Braun at the deliberation and coordination hearing scheduled and held by Aalen insolvency court. This means that VfR Aalen’s self-administered reorganization has been successful ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Chicago-based attorneys Heather Kramer and Melanie Chico will be presented with an Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. The award will be presented at the Eighteenth Annual Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service Award Ceremony on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in the James B ...

Vault, publisher of influential rankings, ratings, and reviews on thousands of top employers and internship programs, has released its annual survey of the largest U.S. law firms and has again ranked Haynes and Boone, LLP in the Top 100 for overall prestige and the Top 20 in the country for diversity. In the Best Law Firms to Work For section, Haynes and Boone ranked in the Top 25 in three key categories: No. 16 in Firm Culture No. 18 in Career Outlook No ...

Düsseldorf's business founders will meet from May 5 to 12, 2017 for the second Start-up Week. On May 8 and 9, the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek will offer five seminars on corporate law, e-commerce, IP/IT, tax law, and employment law with the aim of promoting young entrepreneurs. “Our goal is to provide founders with legal know-how for their start in business,” said Dr. Kirsten Thiergart ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP had yet another strong year in the recently released Chambers Global legal directory, with nine lawyers across eight practices recommended as leading providers of legal services in the international marketplace. Haynes and Boone was praised by researchers and clients on a number of fronts from the United States to Mexico and Latin America ...

Buenos Aires, May 2nd, 2017. It is with great sorrow that Estudio Beccar Varela announces the passing of advisory partner Dr. Ricardo Vicente Seeber, yesterday in the city of Buenos Aires. Ricardo received his Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1978. He joined the firm on August 1st, 1980, to work in the Corporate team, at that time headed by Damián F. Beccar Varela ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Michael D. Weis to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a member in the firm’s Chicago office. Weis joins Dykema from Williams, Bax & Saltzman, where he served as chair of the firm’s Business and Transactional practice. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Weis’s practice focuses on general corporate representation, commercial real estate and finance and taxation for mid-size privately and publicly held entities ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has announced six new partners in the firm's May promotions. They are joined by 18 new senior associates. All promotions take effect from 1 May. The firm’s new partners are: David Perry and Catherine Hood (real estate), Aaron Harlow (restructuring & insolvency), Joe Stephenson (commercial) all based in Birmingham; Ruth Clare (real estate) based in Manchester and Lisa Keating (recoveries services), based in Northampton ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is pleased to announce that four of its Dallas-based attorneys are listed as “Best Lawyers in Dallas,” in a special editorial feature in the May 2017 issue of D Magazine. D Magazine, with a circulation of more than 60,000, is one of the leading city magazines in the nation. Each year, D Magazine canvasses the local legal community asking lawyers to nominate other practitioners within their respective practice areas whom they judge to be “the best ...

Small energy drink maker Jacked Up, LLC prevailed over international food conglomerate Sara Lee Corporation yesterday in a significant appellate victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Jacked Up was represented on appeal by a team of attorneys from Dykema, a leading national law firm ...

On April 12th Benito Roggio and Hijos S.A. acquired Banco de Galicia’s stake in Aguas Cordobesas S.A. (ACSA), equal to 10.83% of the share capital of the water and sewer services provider in the city of Córdoba. To date, 7.83% has been transferred and the remaining 3% is subject to approval by the Regulatory Authority. Prior to this transaction, the buyer already owned 61.15% of ACSA’s shares. If this purchase is approved, then Benito Roggio e Hijos would control 71.98% of ACSA’s share capital ...

Yesterday Delphi was awarded the very first Justitia Prize, receiving praise for their work on equality issues. The Justitia Prize is given to the commercial law firm that is doing the best work on equality. The jury gave the following reasons for the award: This year’s winner shows that equality work can permeate daily and commercial work at a law firm. Through the firms work on structure, culture and balance, this year’s winner has impressed the jury ...

Hanson Bridgett Recognized as 2017 Bay Area Best Places To Work April 27, 2017 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – Hanson Bridgett has been recognized as a winner of the 2017 Bay Area Best Places To Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Select employers from the Bay Area were named winners of the awards program, held on April 18, 2017 ...

Hanson Bridgett Adds Former Walnut Creek Mayor Kristina Lawson as Partner April 26, 2017 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to announce that Kristina Lawson, former Walnut Creek mayor and council member, has joined the firm as partner in the firm’s Walnut Creek and San Francisco offices. The firm added four attorneys to the Real Estate & Construction section earlier in the year ...

Washington, D.C.’s 2017 Super Lawyers directory includes five Haynes and Boone, LLP partners across four practice areas in its annual award listing. Firm Partner Julie Domike is recognized in the Environmental category and Partner Tom Lang is listed for Antitrust Litigation. Partner John Bateman and Senior Counsel Phil Hampton are featured in Intellectual Property Litigation, while Partner Jeffrey Wolfson is highlighted in Intellectual Property ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP proudly announces that, effective May 1, five associates will be promoted to counsel: Pierre Grosdidier, Chris Kang, Jade Laye, Ryan Paulsen and Jorge Torres. “This is a tremendous achievement that reflects the exemplary work and service these lawyers have provided to the firm’s clients over an extended period of time,” said Managing Partner Tim Powers ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has appointed Peter Morris to head up the Leeds family team having launched in the city in December 2016. Shoosmiths has an ambitious strategy and it has been growing its family offering with high profile partner hires across the UK, the latest new joiners including Juliette Peters and Jay Patel in London. Peter joins Shoosmiths as a partner from Simpson Millar where he was national head of family law ...

Han Kun represented MOMO in a case to invalidate trademark cybersquatting which was compiled into the “Typical Trademark Review Cases of 2016” that was recently released by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. Han Kun partner Ms. Chen Rong was in charge of handling the case ...

SyCipLaw Partner, Ricardo Ma. P.G. Ongkiko led a panel discussion on Emergency Arbitration at the Symposium on Emerging Issues in International Arbitration held on March 23, 2017. The symposium was sponsored by the Asia Pacific Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA), the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators (PIArb), and the Philippine Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), East Asia Branch ...

Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co, with the Harvard Law School Association of New York City and the Harvard Law School Association of Europe, hosted the first ever HLSA event in Israel on April 20, 2017 in Tel-Aviv. According to the HLSA, there are approximately 160 Harvard Law School graduates in Israel, many in private practice, academia, the judiciary, and in business ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Jill Wheaton, Ann Arbor-based member in Dykema’s Litigation Department and Leader of the firm’s Appellate practice, has been chosen to serve on Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society’s Board of Directors. Wheaton accepted the role at the Historical Society’s Annual Membership Luncheon April 20 at the Detroit Athletic Club. She will serve a two year term, effective immediately ...

The firm has appointed conveyancing partner Lisa Gibbs into the Manchester office signalling the launch of the Northern Shoosmiths’ conveyancing offering. Shoosmiths’ national conveyancing team has experienced exceptional success over the last year to become a market leading conveyancing service and the launch of a team in Manchester will complement the established teams in Northampton, Solent and Edinburgh ...

NNDKP successfully represented the joint venture created by FCC CONSTRUCCION SA - ASTALDI SPA - CONTRATAS Y VENTAS, S.A. "CONVENSA” in the litigation centered on the award by Compania Națională de Căi Ferate "CFR" SA ("CFR") of the public procurement contract "Rehabilitation of the Frontieră – Curtici – Simeria Railway, part of the IVth Pan - European Corridor, for the circulation of trains with a maximum speed of 160 km/h, Section 3: Gurasada-Simeria" ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Counsel Ed Lebow helped client The Siam Industrial Wire Co., a Thai maker of steel wire products, win a favorable ruling this month in an antidumping case in the U.S. Court of International Trade. U.S. steel wire producers Davis Wire Corp. and Insteel Wire Products Company filed the case, accusing Siam of selling its products in the U.S. for less than fair value. The U.S ...