Press Releases

Shoosmiths' prominent position in the Manchester market has been recognised with a major win at the 2017 Manchester Legal Awards. In the face of stiff competition, Shoosmiths secured the Law Firm of the Year Award (large), the latest in a string of accolades won by the firm in the last 12 months ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Timothy D. Kelly, Minneapolis-based senior counsel in the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group, has been named a BTI Client Service All-Star for 2017, an honor bestowed upon just 319 attorneys. He earned this recognition after being identified by leading general counsel and legal decision makers for outperforming other attorneys. Kelly is just one of eight attorneys recognized in the state of Minnesota ...

The World's Leading Trademark Professionals 1000 2017 Reveal March 2017 – Hanson Bridgett is proud to announce its inclusion in the seventh edition of the WTR 1000, recognized as a firm that is, "regional in location but international in scope ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen announced the promotion of six lawyers to partnership, in one of the most important rounds of promotions within the firm in recent years. This step is part of NNDKP's strategy of continuously consolidating its position as a leader of the Romanian business law market ...

Leading Russian law firm ALRUD announces that on 1 March, 2017 German Zakharov became a partner. German is a member at “Competition/Antitrust” and “White collar crime, compliance and internal investigations” practices ...

Karanovic & Nikolic is pleased to announce that we, in cooperation with local lawyers, have been shortlisted by IFLR for "Deal of the Year" within the Project Finance category for our assistance in the SASA mine refinancing project in Macedonia. Together with colleagues from Mayer Brown LLP, we assisted a group of lenders consisted of Societe Generale, London Branch, Investec Bank PLC and Ohridska Banka AD Skopje on the transaction for financing the SASA mine ...

Estudio Beccar Varela advised Agrofina S.A. on the issuance of notes Class V and VI. Agrofina successfully completed this issuance, carried out in two Classes under the firm’s Global Program of simple notes (non-convertible into shares) for a maximum nominal value of up to US$ 60 million (or its equivalent in other currencies). Class V notes were issued at a nominal value of AR$331.696 ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised Downing LLP (Downing) on the £3m investment secured by the family-owned luxury e-commerce business, Xupes, from Downing managed funds. Founded in 2009 by Joe and Frank McKenzie, Xupes restores and retails pre-owned luxury goods including watches, jewellery, handbags, art and antiques and is an accredited Cartier and Omega servicing centre ...

On February 24, China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) announced the winners of the 2016 China Business Law Awards in its February 2017 issue. Han Kun was honored as "Firm of the Year" in the following 3 practice areas: 1. Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Firm of the Year 2. Private Equity & Venture Capital Firm of the Year 3 ...

Funke Adekoya (SAN), Partner & Head of Dispute Resolution Practice Group at AELEX has been appointed member of the newly constituted ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration. The Task Force brings together a carefully selected panel of leading legal and economic experts from 11 jurisdictions to promote consistency and rigour in the field’s approach to damages ...

Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners is the first Italian, full-service law firm to obtain the ISO27001 certificate from DNV GL – Business Assurance in Italy. The ISO/IEC 27001 certification is an international accreditation that is only awarded to organizations which are able to ensure that information and data is secure from any kind of threat and that guarantee integrity, confidentiality and accessibility of their data ...

Estudio Beccar Varela advised Tarjetas Cuyanas S.A. and the placement agents on the issuance of notes Class XXVII, issued in one series under the company’s global program for short, medium and long term notes for a maximum nominal value of up to US$250 million (or its equivalent in other currencies). Series II notes were issued at a nominal value of AR$500 million. The transaction closed on February 10th, 2017 ...

Partner Fernando Alonso, chairman of the firm’s Latin America practice group, has been selected for inclusion in the 2017 Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers by Latinvex, for the second consecutive year. Latinvex selects leading lawyers based on a combination of factors, including recent rack record on major deals and business, prominence of firm in Latin America, as well as legal rankings from Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Thomson Reuters ...

On February 22, 2017, the Asia Legal Awards 2017 winners were announced at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong. Han Kun won "TMT Firm of the Year" from among 7 shortlisted Asian and international law firms. The Asian Lawyer, in association with The American Lawyer, China Law & Practice and Legal Week, has held the Asia Legal Awards annually since 2014 ...

Light Rail Manila Corporation’s (LRMC) PHP 24 billion project financing was recognized as the Best Project Finance Deal of 2016 in Southeast Asia at the 10th Annual Alpha Southeast Asia Best Deal and Solution Awards. The 15-year loan facility will finance the operations and maintenance of the existing Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT1) system and the construction of an 11 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in favor of Dykema pro bono client Ehlena Fry in her lawsuit against the Napoleon, Michigan Community Schools. In ruling that Fry, a 13-year-old with cerebral palsy, may sue for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) without first exhausting administrative proceedings, the Court removes significant and time-consuming legal hurdles for disabled children who are victims of discrimination in their education systems ...

Delphi has advised Stiftelsen Industrifonden and the British venture capital fund Balderton Capital in connection with their investments in Soundtrack Your Brand. The total investment round amounts to 22 million US-dollars. The financing round also saw participation from several current shareholders including Telia Company, Northzone, Creandum, H&M’s family vehicle HMP and Jörg Mohaupt ...

Dykema announced today that Eduardo “Eddy” Espinosa, Dallas-based member of the firm’s Business Services Department, was elected to the Board of Directors for the Dallas Hispanic Law Foundation. He is serving a two-year term that concludes on December 31, 2018. The Dallas Hispanic Law Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to the advancement of Hispanics in the legal profession ...

The Finnish M&A market was busy in 2016, and the Krogerus M&A practice has further strengthened its position as a leading practice in Finland. For several years, the practice has been one of the most active in the field, and based on league tables published by Mergermarket, Krogerus ranked once again among the top legal advisors measured in volume of M&A deals announced in Finland in 2016 ...

Two of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan’s transactions in 2016 are shortlisted in the IFLR Asia Awards 2017. Shortlisted for debt & equity-linked deal of the year is the issuance by AP Renewables of a landmark climate bond (“Tiwi MakBan project bond”), where SyCipLaw acted as borrower’s counsel for AP Renewables, Incorporated (APRI), a unit of Philippine energy company Aboitiz Power ...

Business magazine Wirtschaftswoche recognized Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as one of the top law firms in labor law and Frankfurt-based partner Bernd Weller individually as a top labor lawyer. The Wirtschaftswoche ranking of the top law firms assists companies in finding the right advisor for their requirements. The ranking was carried out by Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) ...

We are delighted that a deal in which ENSafrica was the lead South African legal advisor won the prestigious 2016 Deal of the Year at the recent DealMakers Gala Awards, one of the top awards on the African continent. The firm was also again recognised as a leading corporate legal advisor in terms of both transaction value and transaction flow, for both M&A and General Corporate Finance in South Africa ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP advised client Benefit Street Partners L.L.C. in a joint venture with California Resources Corporation (CRC) to invest in CRC’s oil and gas properties in California. The joint venture calls for Benefit Street Partners to invest up to $250 million for development opportunities in both conventional and unconventional assets of CRC in California ...

A team led by capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Cologne office and tax law expert Klaus Weinand-Härer from the firm's Frankfurt office, advised bedding manufacturer Gebr. Sanders GmbH & Co. KG, Bramsche, as part of a bond restructuring. The team led by Sickinger and Weinand-Härer advised Sanders on the intended bond restructuring in corporate law, capital market law, and tax law ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Sandra Cotter, Director of the Firm’s Regulated Industries Department and Leader of its Government Policy & Practice group, was elected to the Michigan Chamber Foundation Board of Directors ...