Stoel Rives LLP, a leading U.S. business law firm, is pleased to announce the addition of two veteran corporate attorneys to its Minneapolis office. Robert Kukuljan joins the firm as a partner in the Corporate group, and Laurie Huotari joins as Of Counsel to that group.
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The Share Sale Agreement exchange took place on Friday, 22 June 2012, with the deal being completed on Tuesday, 18 September 2012. Maddocks advised Shangri-La on all aspects of the transaction, including the negotiation and execution of the Share Sale Agreement and ancillary documentation, and obtaining all consents and authorities required for completion.
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Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that Thomas Yunlong Man has joined the firm’s Beijing office as a partner.
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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing SWEPI LP, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, in its agreement to purchase Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s assets in the southern Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin. Shell has agreed to pay Chesapeake $1.9 billion for 618,000 net acres in the Permian Basin that produce approximately 26,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
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Hogan Lovells announced today that Edward Kwok, Jennifer Lantz, Steve Levitan, Christian Mammen, and Clark Stone have joined as partners in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice. Kwok, Lantz, Levitan, and Stone arrive from Haynes and Boone LLP, and will be based in the Silicon Valley office, while Mammen joins from a private practice and will be based in San Francisco.
Tags: Hogan Lovells | San FranciscoHogan Lovells has advised Neopost Japan Inc. (“Neopost Japan”), a subsidiary of Neopost S.A., on its acquisition of the Hasler Division Business from Nisshinbo Postal Chemical Co., Ltd. (“NPC”). The transaction was signed on 30 July 2012 and was successfully closed on 31 August 2012.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that Ronald W. Zdrojeski has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. A commercial litigator and trial attorney with nearly 30 years of experience, Mr. Zdrojeski has litigated in 48 of the 50 states. His extensive experience defending businesses in complex litigation includes class action, trade secret, intellectual property, environmental and maritime litigation.
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Ashurst announced the appointment of Heiko Penndorf as a partner in its Frankfurt office. Formerly a partner in Mayer Brown in Frankfurt, Heiko advises on a broad range of M&A, finance real estate and capital markets transactions. He was member of the team advising US financial investor Lone Star on various portfolio transactions. He was also part of the team that advised Volkswagen Financial Services AG on its first residual value securitisation and Soffin on establishing the first German ‘bad bank.’ A licensed tax consultant, Heiko worked at Ashurst prior to joining Mayer Brown. Tax associate Felix Krüger will also be joining the team from Mayer Brown.
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Iain Sharp has joined our firm as a partner in the Singapore office. He will practice with the International Arbitration Team and Commercial Litigation Client Service Group.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of Mashhood Rassam as partner in its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Rassam will add to a growing list of talented, senior litigators in McDermott’s Silicon Valley office at a time when competitor-on-competitor litigation in the tech industry reaches an all-time high.
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