O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Gigi Woo, a seasoned and well-respected Hong Kong securities lawyer, has joined the Firm as a Capital Markets partner. Woo will be based in the Firm’s Hong Kong office.
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of a Chicago office, the firm’s fifteenth office. Attorneys in the new office, located at Three First National Plaza, include Terrence E. Budny, Kevin M. Cloutier, Lawrence C. Eppley, Patrick J. Maloney, Paul T. Metzger and Kenneth A. Peterson, Jr. All of the attorneys join Sheppard Mullin from the Chicago office of K&L Gates, except Cloutier, who joins the firm from Winston & Strawn in Chicago. D. Ronald Ryland, the firm’s general counsel, will also join the office, relocating from San Francisco. Eppley joins as managing partner of Sheppard Mullin’s new office.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is representing Sansei Yusoki Co., Ltd., an Osaka-based company engaged in the design, manufacture, repair and maintenance of amusement rides, stage equipment and elevators on its contemplated acquisition of a stake in S&S Worldwide, one of the world’s leading amusement rides and rollercoaster manufacturers located in the U.S. Following the signing of the MOU and the official transfer of shares in July 2012, S&S Worldwide will retain its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Logan, Utah.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | TokyoPaul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing ABC-Mart, Inc., a Tokyo, Japan-based publicly-traded shoe retailer, in its US$138 million cash tender offer for all of the outstanding equity of LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOOT), a Portland, Oregon-based provider of premium, branded footwear.
Tags: Paul Hastings, LLP | TokyoBingham McCutchen LLP has significantly expanded its Investment Management Practice Group with the addition of three partners to its Washington, D.C. office, Thomas S. Harman, W. John McGuire and Christopher D. Menconi. The partners are joined by of counsel Monica L. Parry and Michael Berenson.
Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Roger C. Peng has joined the firm as a partner in its Beijing, China, office. Peng was most recently a partner in the Beijing office of Paul Hastings, prior to which he served as managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s (now Hogan Lovells) Beijing office.
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Jackson Walker L.L.P. is pleased to welcome partners John V. Jansonius and Stephanie K. Osteen, and Senior Counsel Christina A. Jump to the firm. These attorneys add considerable strength and prestige to Jackson Walker’s Labor and Employment practice, making it one of the largest among Texas-based firms.
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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce the opening of its Stamford, Connecticut office. The Stamford office officially opens today with five attorneys, four of whom (two shareholders, one of counsel, and one associate) join Ogletree Deakins from Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. Marc Zaken and John Stretton will join as Shareholders with Zaken, who was the co-chair of his former firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, serving as the office’s managing shareholder. Diana Nehro, a member of Ogletree Deakins’ International Practice Group, will also join the Stamford office as Of Counsel. This is the second Ogletree Deakins office to open in 2012. In April, the firm opened a New York City office.
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Proskauer continues to strengthen its global capital markets capabilities with the upcoming addition of three partners and a senior counsel in the firm’s London office. Partners Peter Castellon, Katherine Mulhern and Roberto Bruno and Senior Counsel Maximilian Kirchner will join in September 2012.
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International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has advised the purchasers on the £400 million acquisition of Battersea Power Station in central London.
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