Press Releases

KSB’s team (Vlastimil Pihera, Jana Guričová, Martin Vráb, Karolina Vosátková) advised J&T BANKA a.s. on its entry and subsequent acquisition of a majority share in AMISTA investiční společnost a.s., one of the largest Czech managers and administrators of qualified investor funds ...

KSB’s team led by Drahomír Tomašuk and Jana Guričová advised on another major acquisition in the IT and education sector. KSB client Sandberg Capital acquired a majority stake in Hungarian company Green Fox Academy, which also operates in the Czech Republic ...

December 14, 2022 (San Francisco, CA) - Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to announce that six attorneys have been promoted to partner. The 2022 Partner Class includes Alan S. Bishop (San Francisco), Kate Bowles (Los Angeles), Sheila B. Bridges (San Francisco), Stefan Chacon (Sacramento), Anthony J. Dutra (San Francisco), and Stuart L. Eisler (San Diego). The promotions are effective January 1, 2023 ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that University of Mississippi School of Law (Ole Miss Law) first year-students Jarius Colley and Kayla Powell have been selected for the Bessie Young Council (BYC) Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship Program at the firm. Mr. Colley and Ms. Powell will work as Bradley winter associates in the firm’s Jackson office. Mr. Colley is involved with the Black Law Student Association and Government Law Student Association at Ole Miss ...

Dr. Anton Horn and Dr. Sabine Dethof, lawyers at Heuking’s Düsseldorf office, successfully represented Egger Holzwerkstoffe Brilon GmbH & Co. KG in a patent dispute. In collaboration with patent attorneys from the law firm of Cohausz & Florack, they now also successfully concluded nullity proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice. EGGER had filed an action for nullity requesting that a patent held by Rehau Automotive SE & Co ...

Bradley partner Ty Howard was quoted in Westlaw Today on his thoughts about the Supreme Court’s recent case disputing federal government authority to dismiss False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuits filed by whistleblowers. Howard discussed the lawsuit filed in 2012 by a former Executive Health Resources Inc. employee, Dr ...

Buenos Aires, December 13th, 2022. On December 6th, Conci S.A. carried out its first Notes Issuance (Serie I Notes) under the PYME CNV Garantizadas regime (SME Guaranteed Regime), for a total nominal amount of US$898,499 ...

Buenos Aires, December 13th, 2022. On December 7th, Asociación Civil Sumatoria para una Nueva Economía (“Sumatoria”) carried out the issuance of its third class of notes, the proceeds of which will be destined for the financing of microcredits ...

Asters has joined the initiative of the United Nations Global Compact Network Ukraine and signed the Memorandum of Joint Action on Anti-Corruption in Ukraine. The initiative aims to create a transparent business environment that will help to stimulate the development of the economy, companies, and society. Asters' business activities are based on an Anti-Corruption Policy that meets the requirements of Ukrainian legislation, national and international anti-corruption standards ...

Morgan & Morgan Legal advised Mercantil Holding Financiero Internacional, S.A. (“MHFI”), and Mercantil Capital, S.A. (“Mercantil Capital”), subsidiaries of Grupo Mercantil, in relation to the closing of the Promissory Share Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) dated June 29, 2022, by and among the shareholders of Capital Bank, Inc. (“Capital Bank”) as sellers (the “Sellers”), Capital Financial Holding Inc ...

Bradley attorney Michael Thomason was quoted in the Birmingham Business Journal on the impact of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) on businesses around the country to offer new and personal information to the government in upcoming years. “Millions of companies are going to have to report their beneficial ownership information to the U.S. Department of the Treasury ...

Buenos Aires, December 12th, 2022. On December 6th, Vista Energy Argentina S.A.U. (“Vista”) issued the following simple, non-convertible into shares Notes: Series XV Notes, denominated and payable in US dollars, for a total nominal amount of US$13.500.000; Series XVI Notes, denominated in US dollars, exclusively integrated through the exchange of Series V and IX issued by Vista, and payable in Argentine pesos, for a total nominal amount of US$63.450 ...

Dr. Detlef Raasch will join Heuking as Salaried Partner effective January 1, 2023, reinforcing the Patent Law team led by Dr. Anton Horn in Düsseldorf. The addition of the new team member is another sign of the consistently pursued expansion of the Patent Law practice. Dr. Raasch is a Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney and comes from the law firm of FARAGO Patentanwälte (Munich / Aachen) ...

A team led by Dr. Johan-Michel Menke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised lawyer Olaf Spiekermann as insolvency administrator of WHG Rahn GmbH on the sale of the company’s business operations to Saarbrücken-based Klima Becker Gruppe GmbH, a member of Peter Gross Bau Holding GmbH ...

BLP has advised EVERTEC, Inc. (EVERTEC, or the Company) in Costa Rica and Guatemala on the refinancing of its existing credit facilities; the new credit lines consist of $200 million of extended revolving credit and a $415 million term loan A, both maturing on December 1, 2027. The new term loan and a $50 million disbursement from the revolving credit funded the repayment of the Company’s existing Term Loan A and Term Loan B in full. Truist Securities, Inc ...

Guernsey's corporate insolvency regime is predominantly contained within the Companies (Guernsey) Law 2008, as amended (the Companies Law). The regime contained in it has remained largely unchanged since its inception but has been put to very successful use in a wide variety of restructuring and insolvency scenarios ...

On December 9, COMAC delivered its first-ever C919 airliner to China Eastern Airlines. The move marks the first homegrown trunk airliner in China's civil aviation market, a significant milestone in China's aviation ambitions to develop large passenger aircraft ...

A Private Equity team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised European Directories Group, a portfolio company of Triton Partners, and its management led by CEO Daniel Hagemeier on the sale of dogado group to investors Cinven and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP). As a specialist for cloud-based hosting and digital marketing, dogado group is a leader in the hosting market in the German-speaking region of Europe ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Courtney M. Achee, an attorney in the firm’s Charlotte office, has been appointed to a two-year term as chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) KnowledgeNet Charlotte Chapter. The IAPP’s KnowledgeNet Chapters bring local privacy communities together through educational meetings and networking activities. As a chair of the Charlotte KnowledgeNet Chapter, Ms ...

After nearly two years of disruptions and pauses in the legal system due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 shaped up to be a busy year for many Portland lawyers, even if it wasn’t quite business as usual. We asked a small sampling of attorneys in different specialties to share their most memorable professional moment of this past year. Their answers encompassed M&A, pro bono work, criminal defense, a landmark settlement and more. Read on for the facts of the cases ...

On December 6, 2022, AmCham Russia's Legal Affairs Committee held to discuss the key legal risks for companies to consider when leaving Russia. Daniil Petrukh, ALRUD Senior Associate, Advocate, acted as a guest expert. In his speech Daniil addressed bankruptcy related risks for the shareholders and local management due to withdrawal from the market. The Legal Affairs Committee focuses on the analysis of legislative and legal issues influencing the investment climate in Russia ...

On 7 December 2022, the 15th Annual Conference of the AEB Migration Committee took place, where Margarita Egiazarova, PhD, Senior Associate of ALRUD Labour Practice, gave a speech on “Challenges of relocation of HQS considering the need to maintain their labour relations”. Margarita spoke on labour and migration risks faced by companies whose foreign experts moved abroad ...

On December 6, Andrey Zharskiy, ALRUD Partner, Head of Real Estate, Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure Practices and Co-Head of Crisis Management, Economic sanctions and Compliance Practice, Stanislav Veselov, of Counsel , Alexander Shipilov, Senior Associate, Vladislav Soloviev, Associate and Sabina Idrisova, Associate, held the webinar “Retail companies’ exit from the Russian market: general strategies and lease issues” ...

Mexico’s Axo grows LatAm presence with retail acquisition Elliott Hodgkin 08 December 2022 Mexican retailer Grupo Axo has enlisted Carey in Santiago, Mexican firms Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC and SMPS Legal, Peru's Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas in Lima and Guyer & Regules in Montevideo to acquire Chilean clothing company Komax. SMPS Legal advised Axo only on tax matters in the deal ...

On December 1st the Labour Practice team successfully proved the success of a 9 month complicated redundancy case involving the dismissal of a protected election commissioner employee in the Fourth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction. ALRUD team working on the project included labour dispute experts Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate, PhD and Ekaterina Bronitsyna, Associate, as well as Anastasia Petrova, Labour and Employment Practice Of Counsel of ALRUD ...