Press Releases

Senior Counsel Anne Marie Ellis joins the Product Liability Advisory Council ("PLAC"), becoming a new Sustaining member. PLAC is trade association at the forefront of helping product manufacturers, retailers and suppliers stay abreast of legal and regulatory issues that affect their business both today, and in the future ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP today released its spring roundup of data offering detailed insights into the state of the energy industry. The data includes the firm’s latest “Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey,” which captures polling through early April of executives at oil and gas producers, oilfield services companies, financial institutions, private equity firms, and professional service providers to get their predictions about producers’ future borrowing capacity ...

Hamburg-based lawyers Dr. Volker Voth and Christoph Prochnau of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Hanjo Runde in employment law and corporate law relating to the SieMatic’s General Manager upcoming move to HanseYachts AG as CEO. Runde, who joined SieMatic’s management team in December 2019, will fulfill his contract at SieMatic until the end of November. From December 2021, he will take up his work as CEO at HanseYachts AG in Greifswald, alongside Dr. Jens Gerhardt and Sven Göbel ...

With a team led by Alexander Weber, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised brutkasten GmbH on the acquisition of the VentureCapital Magazin business unit from GoingPublic Media AG. Since 2000, the VentureCapital Magazin platform (magazine, www.vc-magazin.de, Private Equity Flash newsletter) informs investors, entrepreneurs, and intermediaries about trends, transactions, and backgrounds around private equity, entrepreneurship, and technologies ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Lansing-based Member Jarrod Smith has been selected as Leader of the firm’s Public Finance Practice Group. Smith has more than 16 years of experience in public finance ...

O’Neal Webster is pleased to be recognized by peers in the BVI financial services industry, receiving the 2020 Financial Services Award for exhibiting the “Best Corporate Social Responsibility.” Presented by BVI Finance, the elaborate virtual celebration, broadcast locally and on the BVI Finance Facebook page, was held on March 28, 2021 to honor all award recipients ...

Leading technology and fintech lawyer, Prakash Kerai (PK) has joined Shoosmiths’ London office as a commercial partner. Prakash KeraiOver the last fifteen years, Prakash has advised on technology and fintech arrangements at a top 30 UK law firm, becoming its head of fintech. Prakash – who joins the firm from DAC Beachcroft – has a wealth of technology and fintech experience ...

Bradley attorney Carol Van Cleef was quoted in CoinDesk on a West Virginia criminal code overhaul bill that was set to ban cryptocurrencies. The state legislature had been working on the bill for nearly a year to strengthen drug sentencing, expand homicide provisions, modernize anti-hacking statutes and establish a tiered system for misdemeanors and felonies ...

Shoosmiths has advised Five Arrows Principal Investments (Rothschild & Co) in concluding a definitive agreement for a newco funded by Astorg, a leading global private equity firm, to acquire a majority stake in the Opus 2 group. This deal is the fourth major transaction the Shoosmiths team has undertaken for Five Arrows Principal Investments in as many months. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed ...

Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to welcome to the firm Michelle Gon, Sophie Shi, and Jolie Yan and their team, who each possesses expertise and extensive experience in the practice areas of corporate compliance and governance, anti-corruption, anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, white-collar crime, and internal and external compliance investigations ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Carol R. Van Cleef, counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, has been appointed as an independent director to the BTCS Board of Directors. BTCS is an early entrant in the digital asset market and one of the first U.S. publicly traded companies focused on digital assets and blockchain technologies ...

Bradley attorney Mike Gordon was quoted in Law360 on the CFPB's proposal package that includes a temporary moratorium on new foreclosures through the end of 2021. The proposed moratorium comes in light of an expected surge in borrowers exiting pandemic-related forbearances this fall and would prohibit mortgage servicers from initiating foreclosure proceedings until after Dec. 31 ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that eight attorneys in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office were named to the 2020 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll. Anna M. Lashley and Jessica L. Zurlo each received High Honors for performing 100 or more hours of pro bono service. In addition, Connor M. Blair, Lee-Ann C. Brown, Joshua Dhyani, Andrea J. Kotrosits, Patrick R ...

Potter becomes sixth former federal prosecutor to join Firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations Team Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP is pleased to announce that Lauren Schorr Potter, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation department. Ms. Potter will focus her practice on white collar defense and investigations and complex civil litigation. Prior to joining Patterson, Ms ...

In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Justice removed the basis for most lawsuits filed by investors in closed-end funds. In a decision announced on March 26, 2021, the Federal Court of Justice held that founding shareholders were not liable under the general principles of culpa in contrahendo if they provided information with an incorrect, incomplete, or misleading prospectus prior to investors joining the fund ...

Effective April 1, 2021, Dr. Henrik Lay (44) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as Equity Partner. The lawyer and tax advisor will reinforce the transactional, but in particular the tax law practice in Hamburg. Henrik Lay joins Heuking from AHB (Arends Hofert Bergemann) Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater. Previously, he practiced at Watson Farley & Williams after having started his career at Latham & Watkins. Admitted as a lawyer and tax advisor, he is also a Certified Specialist Lawyer in Tax Law ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Kent Jones has joined the Charlotte office as a partner in the firm’s real estate and finance practices along with attorney Josh Stone. “We are excited to welcome Kent and Josh to our Charlotte office,” said Bradley Charlotte Office Managing Partner Christopher C. Lam. “Kent brings decades of experience representing clients in all facets of commercial real estate development and finance ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Benchmark Litigation has named the firm its 2021 Tennessee Litigation Firm of the Year for the second consecutive year. The firm was honored March 31 during a virtual awards ceremony. Bradley was one of three finalists for the award, which recognizes litigation firms in each state based on the significance of their representations. The firm also was a finalist for Litigation Firm of the Year in Alabama and Mississippi ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Martha Roby is joining the firm as a senior advisor in the Governmental Affairs and Economic Development practice groups. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Martha as a senior advisor for governmental affairs and economic development,” said Bradley Chairman of the Board and Managing Partner Jonathan Skeeters ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Lansing-based Member W. Alan Wilk has been appointed as Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Government Policy & Practice Group. Wilk steps into this leadership position already serving as Leader of Dykema’s Political Compliance Team and Co-Leader of the firm’s Public Retirement Team. In his practice, Wilk focuses on election, campaign finance and lobby law compliance matters ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm has awarded its 2021 Diversity Scholarships to law students Gillian Mak from The George Washington University Law School and Jaime Weida from Mississippi College School of Law ...

Bradley attorneys Aron Beezley, Aman Kahlon, Whitt Steineker and Jonathan Wohlwend were recognized by JD Supra in its 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards, which identify top authors and firms for their thought leadership in key topics during 2020. Beezley was named a “JD Supra Top Author” in the government contracting category, and Kahlon received the same recognition in the construction category ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was part of an international team of lawyers that assisted CTP in connection with its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam. NNDKP proudly acted as local counsel advising on Romanian law aspects on the project. “We are happy to have closely advised CTP, our long-standing esteemed client, on its exceptional milestone achievement ...

With a team from several offices led by partners Dr. Johan Schneider and Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised internationally operating Joh. Friedrich Behrens AG on the sale of its business operations in an asset deal together with a share deal for numerous foreign subsidiaries. The buyer is a subsidiary of Great Star Europe AG, Switzerland, which prevailed over numerous interested investors in a highly complex international bidding process ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek and a team led by Alexander Weber legally advised Russmedia Equity Partners on the acquisition of a stake in white label dating provider ICONY GmbH. ICONY GmbH operates the ICONY network, which gives companies the opportunity to offer dating or matchmaking services under their own brand and/or domain. Numerous media companies and domains are using this network. ICONY was formed from the metropolis.de and flirt.de community platforms. The ICONY network has over 2 ...