Press Releases

For the fifth consecutive year, the Corporate Reputation Business Monitor (MERCO), a reference monitor for Ibero-America, presented the rankings of 100 companies and the 100 leaders with the best reputation in Panama. We are pleased to announce that Morgan & Morgan remains the only law firm in this important ranking, consolidating itself in the #1 position of the Legal sector ...

Bradley attorney Bruce Ely was quoted in Bloomberg Law News discussing the probability of an Indiana bill, SB-2, enacting a pass-through entity tax workaround to the federal $10,000 state and local tax deduction limit for individuals. Ely noted that Indiana’s law permits a credit for taxes imposed by and paid to another state – an attribute that is not necessarily available in all the other 30 states where this workaround has been implemented ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Stanley E. Blackmon, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been selected as a 2023 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). With more than 350 members, the LCLD is a national organization made up of general counsel and law firm managing partners who participate in programs designed to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms and corporate legal departments. The LCLD was launched in 2009 ...

James has extensive experience of debt finance transactions in Europe and Asia and advises on all aspects of private debt, structured, leveraged and acquisition finance. In addition, James' expertise includes take-private transactions, fund finance, debt capital markets, convertible instruments, special situations, derivatives and syndicated lending ...

For more than 20 years Chambers and Partners have published directories on leading firms in most of the countries in the world. Their ranking for 2023 for Global  is now available. LEX is ranked as a Leading Firm in Iceland. Chambers global ranking is in the Corporate / Commercial and Dispute Resolution categories. The Corporate / Commercial team is described as following: „LEX Law Offices boasts a broad corporate and commercial offering, including public M&A and ECM mandates ...

For more than 20 years Chambers and Partners have published directories on leading firms in most of the countries in the world. Their ranking for 2023 for Global  is now available. LEX is ranked as a Leading Firm in Iceland. Chambers global ranking is in the Corporate / Commercial and Dispute Resolution categories. The Corporate / Commercial team is described as following: „LEX Law Offices boasts a broad corporate and commercial offering, including public M&A and ECM mandates ...

The annual listing commends law firms for the ground-breaking, industry leading deals they have worked on throughout 2022. CBLJ forms its winning list based on independent observation and coverage of the China legal market throughout the year. The judging panel selects deals that stand out for significance, complexity, innovative nature and size. The capital market deal the firm advised on was for JinkoSolar, one of China's largest solar module manufacturers ...

Buenos Aires, February 24th, 2023. On February 14th, 2023, Hidrotec S.A. (“Hidrotec”) carried out its first Notes Issuance (Series I Notes) under the PYME CNV Garantizadas regime (SME Guaranteed Regime). Series I Class I Notes, issued for a total nominal amount of US$3.950.672, are maturing on February 14th, 2025, and will not accrue interest ...

Buenos Aires, February 23rd, 2023. On February 8th, 2023, Valentín Bianchi S.A.C.I.F. (“Valentín Bianchi”) carried out its first Notes’ Issuance (Series I Notes) under the PYME CNV Garantizadas regime (SME Guaranteed Regime). Series I Class II Notes, issued for a total nominal amount of US$3.204.007, are maturing on February 8th, 2026, and will not accrue interest ...

Buchalter is sponsoring this year’s moot court competition at the UC Irvine Law School. The event will take place on Friday, March 24, 2023, from 3PM-5PM. The case before the court centers on the dismissal of Dr. Helen Croix from her tenured employment at Aguefort University. After posting unsound medical advice on her private blog, an unaffiliated doctor used Dr. Croix’s advice in treatment, and his patient died. During the wrongful death suit that followed Dr ...

Bradley partner Abba Harris was named to the Birmingham Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40” list for 2023. The annual list honors young professionals who are recognized as the best and brightest of emerging leaders in the Birmingham area. The complete list of “Top 40 Under 40” winners was published in the BBJ on January 23, 2023 ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Edward S. Sledge IV, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been elected president of the board of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Foundation for 2023-2024, effective this month. The IADC is the preeminent, invitation-only, global legal organization for attorneys who represent corporate and insurance interests ...

SyCipLaw Partner Ronald Mark C. Lleno contributed an article to the Korean Chamber of Commerce Philippines (KCCP) E-Newsletter for February 2023 (Volume 11), titled "Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Telecommuting Act". He co-authored this article with SyCipLaw Senior Associate Ramon I. Rocha IV, Associates Il Young Choi and Raymond Joseph S. Garcia, and Legal Assistant James Patrick L. Urquiola ...

The Philippine Institute of Arbitrators Inc. (PIArb), in cooperation with SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw), successfully conducted training sessions on the Role of Management in International Arbitration ...

WTR1000, a leading global research directory focused on trademark practitioners, has given SyCipLaw a Gold ranking in the 2023 edition of the directory. The firm enjoyed the same ranking in 2022. This year's edition also highlighted the following lawyers as Recommended Individuals: Vida M. Panganiban-Alindogan, Partner and Head of the firm's Intellectual Property department, retains her recommended individual ranking ...

SyCipLaw is pleased to announce the admission of Emmar Benjoe B. Panahon, Roshni V. Balani, and Mark Xavier D. Oyales to the partnership. Emmar Benjoe B. Panahon is a labor law specialist, with extensive experience in labor litigation and handing of employment and labor concerns issues such as labor inspections and compliance, overseas employment, employment contracts, certification elections, collective bargaining, and other union matters ...

Transactions with the Philippine Government implemented through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are attracting renewed interest. SyCipLaw partners Arlene M. Maneja and Bhong Paulo A. Macasaet provide guidance on the topic in the Philippine chapter of King & Wood Mallesons' latest Public-Private Partnerships in Asia guide ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has filled the position of Sustainability Manager with Zoe Abulzahab. The business graduate studied in Groningen and Seoul and completed her MSc in “Global Business & Sustainability” at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The MSc is a world-leading degree program in CSR dealing with the complex sustainability challenges faced by businesses in an integrated manner ...

DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (DMB), Kiel, entered into an agreement with Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Waltham / Massachusetts (USA) to acquire all shares in Kiel- based Raytheon Anschütz GmbH (in the future: Anschütz GmbH), including its foreign subsidiaries and branches in Panama, Brazil, Singapore, and China, as well as Raytheon Deutschland GmbH’s UK business ...

On February 18, 2023, the inaugural Legal Service Industry Brand Development Forum & Legal Vision Branding Gala 2022, themed "Promote Excellence, Build for Tomorrow", was held at the China Financial Information Center in Shanghai. The event was co-hosted by the Lawyer Legal Studies Center of China University of Political Science and Law and Legal Vision, under the guidance of Shanghai Lujiazui Financial City Development Bureau and Lawyer Legal Studies Academy of the Shanghai Law Society. Ms ...

Bradley attorney Bruce Ely talked with Law360 after attending a virtual Multistate Tax Commission Partnership Work Group meeting on the issue of sourcing state income from partnerships to partners for guaranteed payments and services. Ely told Law360 that there’s a need for uniformity on state handling of the sourcing for guaranteed payments. Ely explained that taxing guaranteed payments at the federal level is “relatively straightforward ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP served as lead counsel to Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the sale of a portion of Chesapeake Energy’s oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford shale, south Texas for $1.4 billion. The sale, announced Feb. 21, 2023, involved approximately 172,000 net acres and approximately 2,300 wells in the black oil portion of its Eagle Ford asset, primarily in Dimmit, LaSalle and McMullen counties ...

London February 22, 2023 - International law firm Gianni & Origoni was awarded during the gala dinner organized in London by prestigious magazine Project Finance International. The firm received the award in the "Europe Portfolio Deal of the Year" category for its assistance to Tages Capital in the green loan-nonrecourse financing in the amount of 1.10 billion euros in favor of Ortigia Power 61 S.r.l., a company indirectly owned by the Tages Helios II real estate fund ...

Bradley partner Will Manuel has been listed in the Mississippi Business Journal’s annual list of “Leaders in Law & Finance.” The list honors Mississippi professionals in law and finance that have made significant contributions to their industries. The honorees were formally recognized at an awards ceremony on December 16, 2022. The full list was published in the MBJ on January 27, 2023 ...

Law firm Shoosmiths has been crowned Legal Provider of the Year 2023 British Credit Awards, hosted by the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM).Individuals, teams and organisations gathered on 2 February at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to recognise and celebrate the stand-out achievements of the international credit industry ...