Executive compensation attorney Benjamin D. Panter joins the Chicago office of McDonald Hopkins

Benjamin D. Panter, formerly a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has been elected as a Member at McDonald Hopkins LLC, a business advisory and advocacy law firm with an 85-year history and a growing presence in Chicago.

Based in McDonald Hopkins’ Chicago office, Panter joins the firm’s national Executive Compensation and Governance Practice, which advises public and private companies, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and executives across a range of industries. More >>

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Jackson Lewis Adds Employment Litigation Team in New Jersey

Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce it has bolstered its New Jersey roster with the addition of a labor and employment team from Giordano Halleran & Ciesla. Joseph C. DeBlasio, formerly co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Area, joins Jackson Lewis as Shareholder. He is joined by Shareholder Kelly D. Gunther and Associates Ryan S. Carlson, Sabrina Kania and Saranne E. Weimer. The team will be resident in the firm’s Morristown, NJ office prior to opening the firm’s Red Bank, NJ office in Spring 2015. More >>

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Paul Hastings Represents Banks in the $610 Million Financing for the Purchase of PODS by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented the banks in financing the acquisition of PODS, a leader in the moving and storage category, by The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s Long-Term Equities Group from Bahrain private-equity firm Arcapita. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. The transaction value is in excess of $1 billion More >>

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Experienced Corporate Partner Rejoins Latham & Watkins in Hong Kong

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that William Woo has rejoined the firm in Hong Kong as a partner in the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on equity capital markets and M&A matters, particularly in connection with pre-IPO investments and listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (both the Main Board and the Growth Enterprise Market) and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity work More >>

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Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Chemistry and Life Sciences Team in DC

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of a Chemistry and Life Sciences Team to its DC office. Partners Justin Krieger, Keith Fredlake and Jeffrey Gendzwill, along with Counsel, Rodney Rothwell, and Associates, Nicoletta Kennedy and Troy Petersen, have joined the firm where they bring a preeminent chemistry and life sciences IP practice and additional expertise to the firm’s growing DC office More >>

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Michael Lehmann Joins Dechert’s Tax Group as Partner

Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Michael A. Lehmann has joined the firm as a partner in the International and Domestic Tax group. Lehmann, who will be resident in the firm’s New York office, was most recently a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP More >>

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