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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has sponsored the 2022 Gender Index report, with findings demonstrating that female-founders obtain disproportionately less investment compared to male-owned companies.The Gender Index's (TGI) ambition is to help create a more equal future by providing a clear and accurate picture of the disparity between male and female led businesses, by benchmarking the current level of activity undertaken by companies across the UK which are owned or led by female founders ...

June 2, 2022 – Today, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C., a leading Pacific Northwest law firm, announced that nine of the firm’s practice areas and 24 of its lawyers have been recognized for excellence by Chambers & Partners in its 2022 rankings ...

Buenos Aires, March 30th, 2022. After exercising a sale option on October 1st, 2021, and following a negotiation process, fourteen of the most important banks in Argentina (Banco Santander Río S.A., Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U., Banco BBVA Argentina S.A., Banco Macro S.A., Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, HSBC Bank Argentina S.A., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina) S.A.U., Banco Patagonia S.A., Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe S.A., Banco Itaú Argentina S.A ...

March 30, 2022. Buchalter recently added a number of new attorneys to round out its White Collar and Investigations Practice, including the former Acting United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, Anthony Martin, as well as Adam Sechooler and Arielle Seidman. Launched in 2020, Buchalter’s White Collar and Investigations Group has quickly expanded into a robust practice, including over a dozen attorneys across the majority of the Firm’s offices ...

PORTLAND, OR; Seattle, WA (March 30, 2022) – Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. is excited to announce our new talent to serve the Natural Resources industry. With Tim Nicholson, Ben Fetherston, and Mike Mahoney, we have added to our transactional, business, and litigation services. "Tim, Ben, and Mike have intimate experience with the challenges in our Natural Resources clients’ industries,” Schwabe’s Natural Resources Industry Group Leader Ryen Godwin said ...

Beauty In The Metaverse: Top Companies Move To Fence Off IP With Eyes On Seminal Court Cases By Eileen Francis HBW Insight Major cosmetics companies are filing trademark applications to cover virtual representations of their brands after Facebook announced its vision for the “metaverse,” a three-dimensional virtual reality where users interact using digital avatars ...

[!Bradley partner Bruce Ely was quoted in Tax Notes State on a new state tax credit ruling. The Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals just ruled that a Louisiana couple could claim an other-state tax credit on amounts they gave to an Alabama-based scholarship-granting organization (SGO) in exchange for an Alabama income tax credit. Ely said the Board “got it right, both from a Louisiana and Alabama tax perspective ...

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw) was named Philippine Law Firm of the Year at the 2022 International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards, presented in a recent virtual awarding ceremony. SyCipLaw was also shortlisted in the Deal of the Year: M&A category for its work involving a $1.6B power deal aimed at leveraging the strengths of two leading energy providers in the region to promote clean and renewable electricity in the country ...

The fund, which closed at its hard cap, has attracted commitments from a globally diverse group of top-tier institutional investors, including European, North American, Asian, and Australian investors across a range of institution types such as endowments and foundations, family offices, private pensions, public pensions, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds ...

New Charity 3WFoundation Founded After advising on setting up the Experientia Foundation, the Vlček Family Foundation, and the Via Libor Malý Foundation, KSB's team provided further legal and tax advice on another private philanthropy project. This time, Vlastimil Pihera, Jakub Porod and Simona Hornochová advised on a record-breaking charity project: the founders of Walmark – brothers Adam, Mariusz and Valdemar Wałach – founded the 3WFoundation, in which they invested CZK 1.8 billion ...

[!Bradley is pleased to announce the arrival of associates Dean J. Balaes and Grant T. Williamson to the Nashville office. “Dean and Grant’s impressive backgrounds in healthcare and real estate will enhance the capabilities we offer to our clients navigating these areas, and we are pleased to add them to the firm,” said Bradley Nashville Office Managing Partner Lauren B. Jacques. Mr ...

SMS Latinoamérica, an organization of independent firms specialized in auditing, tax advice and consulting services for companies, has, together with an international committee of experts, translated into Spanish the International Integrated Reporting Framework , which will be used by for all Spanish-speaking companies ...

The next edition of the guide explaining the most up-to-date rules of entry, stay and work in Poland for citizens of Ukraine and other countries. The guide was prepared by Magdalena Świtajska and Katarzyna Sawicka from the Employment and Global Mobility practice of the firm. Available in Polish, Ukrainian and English. English version: https://wardynski.com.pl/upload/2022/03/przewodnik-dla-uchodzcow_zmiana-specustawy_en.pdf версія українська: https://wardynski.com ...

A Heuking team led by Dr. Michael Sörgel and Prof. Dr. Martin Reufels advised NKT Photonics A/S on the sale of its LIOS (Linear Optical Sensors) site to U.S.-based LUNA Innovations Incorporated. Following the sale of the sensing division, NKT will focus on its core areas of laser- and fiber-optic solutions within Medical & Life Science, Industrial, Aerospace & Defense, and Quantum & Nano Technology. The parties agreed on a sales price of EUR 20 million ...

Asia-based partners Anthony McKenzie (Singapore), James Noble (Singapore) and Michael Padarin (Hong Kong SAR) are joined on the Top 50 List by Michael Hanson of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. They were selected following extensive research conducted by ABLJ who talked to in-house counsel in Asia as well as partners of international and onshore law firms in the region to identify the standout lawyers in the offshore space ...

Han Kun Law Offices("Han Kun") is pleased to announce that Mr. Jianhui Li has recently joined the firm, enhancing the firm's practice capabilities in South China. Mr. Li started his career in 1993 and has nearly 30 years of experience as a legal professional. Prior to joining Han Kun, Mr. Li was a partner at two renowned PRC law firms ...

Equinix acquires four Entel data centres in Chile and Peru Lily Squires Chile’s largest telecoms company Entel has turned to Claro & Cía in Santiago to sell four data centres in Chile and Peru for US$705 million to US internet services and data centre group Equinix. Equinix hired Carey in Santiago and Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas in Lima. Latin Lawyer understands that the buyer also hired Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, but this could not be confirmed before publishing ...

[!Bradley is pleased to announce that Aaron Chaloner has joined the firm’s Nashville office as a senior attorney in the Intellectual Property Practice Group “Aaron’s technical background in neuroscience gives him a unique lens into the intersection of legal and scientific issues, allowing him to provide an exceptionally high level of service to clients in the biotechnology industry, while also expanding the depth of the capabilities our team offers,” said Bradley Nashvill

NNDKP has successfully assisted Transcarpatica S.A., an important Romanian steel producer, in the complex transaction consisting in selling the ownership interests held in Someg Gherla to the LKE Group, a German supplier of handling and logistic products and systems. NNDKP was involved in all the stages of this transaction, which also included an initial restructuring procedure in respect of the company’s assets ...

Shoosmiths will partner the over age 35 men’s basketball team for the upcoming European Championships in Malaga.The Federation of Masters Basketball Association (FIMBA) European championships take place in from 24 June to 2 July 2022. FIMBA GB is sending 15 teams. Craig Sharland, regional estates manager at Shoosmiths, is captain of the o35 Men’s team ...

After having advised on the acquisition (including the acquisition financing) of One Telecommunications – the second-largest mobile operator in Albania, in 2019 from OTE / Deutsche Telekom and the refinancing of the original acquisition financing in 2021, at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 BOYANOV & Co. advised the sellers on the sale of One Telecommunications to the Hungarian IT service management company 4iG ...

[!Bradley partner Elisha Kobre was quoted in a Texas Lawbook article discussing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-anticipated draft rulings for when publicly traded companies need to disclose information about the impact that climate change may have on their businesses and their investors.  Kobre, who has monitored the SEC’s climate change proposals, was asked to review the SEC’s report and provide his analysis ...

[!Bradley partner Slates Veazey was quoted in Mississippi Today on the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act. Gov. Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act into law in February 2022. Now, some local businesspeople hoping to get a foothold in the industry are being blocked by their elected officials ...

Charleston, W.Va. — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Nicholas S. Preservati, Member attorney in the law firm's Charleston office, was appointed to the West Virginia Public Energy Authority (PEA) by Governor Jim Justice. "I'm honored by Governor Justice's appointment," Preservati said. "West Virginia is uniquely positioned to be an energy giant on a national and even international scale ...

[!Bradley is pleased to announce that seven attorneys across the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices have been named to the 2022 Texas Super Lawyers Magazine’s Texas Rising Stars list. Bradley Partner Mary Elizondo Frazier has also been recognized in the “Up and Coming 50: 2022 Women Texas Rising Stars” and the “Up and Coming 100: 2022 Texas Rising Stars” Top Lists, indicating high point totals earned during the Super Lawyers selection process ...