Press Releases

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. is excited to welcome six individuals to our 2021 Summer Associate program. This year, the firm will be joined by Neal O. Alnajran, William Brittany Heberling, Reese Hoggans, Sam Moghadam, Sydney Padgett, and Megan Lukmak’ Warren. “We are very excited to welcome this talented group to Schwabe,” said Schwabe Shareholder and Hiring Committee Chair, Darius Hartwell ...

On 10 June 2021, the Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank granted an e-money institution licence to Econt Financial Services EOOD (press release link). The company will provide innovative e-money, payment services and solutions and will enable its customers to open electronic money accounts (via mobile wallets). BOYANOV & Co ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths scooped two awards at the prestigious Managing Partners’ Forum virtual awards ceremony yesterday evening – ‘Best Shared Learning with Clients’ (Client Theme) and ‘Best Operational Continuity’ (Business Theme) ...

The sale of travel fintech innovator Ixaris has been agreed with Nium, the next-generation payments platform, in a transaction advised on by leading UK law firm Shoosmiths.Singapore-headquartered Nium is one of the fastest growing business-to-business payment platforms globally, with more than 130 million customers in over 100 countries. Acquiring Ixaris will help Nium in its vision to provide one API integration to access the world’s payments structure ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has underlined its strategy for further growth in Scotland with the confirmation that seven solicitors and two paralegals have been appointed across several key teams in Glasgow and Edinburgh ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn is pleased to announce its appointment to Virgin Money’s reduced core panel of legal advisers following a rigorous tender process. The firm will continue to support Virgin Money, a longstanding client of the firm, by providing specialist legal expertise to the financial service provider’s operations across the UK ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has acted for the majority shareholders in the sale of QCL Holdings Limited, a fixed wireless broadband company known as Quickline, valuing the business at up to £92.1 million. The firm’s corporate finance lawyers advised shareholders on all aspects of the sale, led by Quickline’s majority shareholder, AIM-listed Bigblu Broadband plc, to an investment vehicle to be held 80% by Canadian infrastructure fund Northleaf Capital Partners ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Dana C. Lumsden, a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office, has been elected to the 2024 Class of the Mecklenburg County Bar’s (MCB) Board of Directors. A member of Bradley’s Banking and Financial Services, Litigation and Intellectual Property practice groups, Mr ...

Benchmark Litigation, an internationally renowned legal directory, recently released its first edition of Benchmark China, which recognizes outstanding dispute resolution law firms and individual lawyers in China. Han Kun has two practice areas and three partners ranked in this edition ...

Szecskay Attorneys at Law proudly announces that its founder and Managing Partner, Dr. András Szecskay, was awarded with the Jedlik Ányos Award by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO), the central department for the protection of intellectual property, on 8 June 2021. The honour was handed over by Tibor Gulyás, Deputy State Secretary in charge of innovations, and Gyula Pomázi, President of HIPO ...

<p><a href="https://www.bestlawyers.com/" title="Best Lawyers">Best Lawyers</a>, one of the most authoritative international legal ratings, has just published the results of the Russian legal market 2022 study. Its rating is based on the assessments of the world-recognized market players.</p> <p>ALRUD experts have occupied a leading position in the Best Lawyers rating for several years ...

Buchalter Lawyers Dylan W. Wiseman, Robert M. Dato, Brandon M. Carr and Tiffany Ng representing Ruifeng Biztech, Inc., obtained an important ruling from the Ninth Circuit. On June 8, 2021, the Ninth Circuit denied petitioner’s writ in the matter of Quintara Biosciences, Inc. v. Ruifeng Biztech, Inc.  Quintara challenged an order striking and dismissing nine of its alleged DNA sequencing trade secrets ...

The new episode of the “News from Poland” is out now. This time, Konrad Grotowski has invited Barbara Wiśniewska from the firm’s real estate practice to discuss prospects for the development of the private rented sector in Poland. Our programme “News from Poland—Business & Law” is a short synthesis of important current events in the Polish economy and changes to Polish law, especially those that may concern management board members and affect the risk of serving on boards ...

Kudun and Partners represented Nusasiri Public Company Limited in connection with issuing various debentures throughout 2020 in raising over THB 1 billion debentures across 10 issuances. Our work includes providing legal advice related to regulatory matters as well as preparing, reviewing, commenting on the terms and conditions of the debenture and collateral agreements, and coordinating with various underwriters ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that the firm’s Automotive Product Liability Litigation, Automotive Litigation, Gaming & Indian Law, and Cannabis Law practices are ranked by the Legal 500 United States 2021 (The Legal 500). Furthermore, three of Dykema's four recognized practices are ranked as at least one of the top six firms in the nation in their respective categories ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that nine of the firm’s partners have been named by Who’s Who Legal as among the world’s leading construction lawyers. The Bradley attorneys listed in the 2021 edition of Who’s Who Legal: Construction are Jim Archibald, Axel Bolvig, Ian P. Faria, Jon Paul Hoelscher, Douglas L. Patin, J. David Pugh, William R. Purdy, E. Mabry Rogers and Robert J. Symon ...

Guidepost invests in Austrian market leader for pet GPS trackers with the support of DORDA's Digital Industries Group. DORDA, led by Christian Ritschka (Partner, M&A), together with Kirkland & Ellis, advised the Boston-based growth equity fund Guidepost as lead investor in the acquisition of an interest in Austrian tractive GmbH. With a total investment of $35 million, this is one of the largest investment rounds in the Austrian startup market in the last months ...

Congratulations are in order for partner Victoria-Zoi Papagiannis, at Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants, who has been named 'Cyprus Lawyer of the Year' by Benchmark Litigation at the 2021 Europe Awards. These are Benchmark Litigation's third annual European awards, for the best disputes lawyers, teams, firms and cases throughout Europe over the past 12 months ...

We are thrilled and proud to announce that our firm has maintained its leading position in the Cyprus legal market, having achieved leading Top Tier rankings in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 EMEA for its work in the following areas of law: Commercial, corporate and M&A Dispute resolution Employment EU and competition Intellectual property Tax The Legal 500 EMEA also recognises a significant number of the firm’s partners and senior associates, who are listed among Cyprus’ Leading Ind

A team led by stock corporation law and capital markets law specialist Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office, advised SMT Scharf AG on a capital increase from authorized capital against cash contributions with a subscription offer and securities information sheet. New shares that are not subscribed by shareholders will be placed with institutional investors by way of a private placement ...

Supported by a team led by Michael Schmittmann and constitutional and administrative lawyer Michael Below, Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, the pro bono initiative “Händler helfen Händlern“ [“Retailers are helping retailers”] filed ten constitutional complaints with the Federal Constitutional Court against the amendment of the Infection Protection Act, referred to as the “federal emergency brake ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has today launched The Shoosmiths Foundation, a grant making body working to help address societal issues, empower sustainable change and improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.The Shoosmiths Foundation builds on Shoosmiths’ existing community investment programme which continues to support local charity partners through staff fundraising and firm donations, staff volunteering and provision of legal advice pro bono ...

On 31 May 2021 the sale of the Bulgarian subsidiary of EnerSys Holdings (Luxembourg) S.a.r.l. – EnerSys AD, to Recocycling EOOD was completed. BOYANOV & Co. provided comprehensive legal advice and full legal support and assistance to the seller on all aspects of the deal, including legal due diligence support, drafting and negotiation of the transaction documentation and complete legal assistance for the successful closing of the transaction. EnerSys Holdings (Luxembourg) S.a.r.l ...

<p>Hong Kong – 7 June 2021 – Deacons, Hong Kong’s own world-class law firm, has strengthened its corporate finance practice with the hire of Erica Wong, an experienced banking and finance lawyer, as Partner.</p> <p>Erica joins Deacons from Ogier, where she focused her practice on complex cross-border banking and financing transactions ...

The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of the law and practice of real estate law in Thailand. This guide provides information about the current issues affecting real estate in Thailand and addresses topics such as ownership proof, due diligence, taxes, planning and zoning restrictions, mortgages and environmental contamination as well as insight and opinion on the most common issues in their respective country ...