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Carey, Vicuña Abogados and Ugarte & Correa in Nestlé acquisition Eloise Hardy Chilean law firm Carey has helped food multinational Nestlé acquire local premium chocolate company La Fête Chocolat for an undisclosed value. Vicuña Abogados advised La Fête Chocolat and Ugarte & Correa acted as antitrust counsel. The deal was signed on 23 December. With the investment, Nestlé strengthens its presence in the luxury chocolate market. La Fête Chocolat will retain its current management ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that its Executive Board elected 12 new members to the firm effective January 1, 2021. Dykema’s new partners, their resident office and practice descriptions are listed below. Sean M. Buckley – Corporate Finance; Dallas Buckley’s practice is focused on advertising, technology, and corporate transactions ...

The Board of the Bank of Lithuania granted WITTY GLOBAL, UAB an electronic money institution license authorizing it to issue electronic money and provide payment services indicated in the Republic of Lithuania Law on Payments: cash withdrawal from an account, credit transfers, issuance of payment instruments and processing of payments. The firm was advised by Ellex in Lithuania Banking and finance practice ...

2020 turned out to be a year with a lot of new questions – including in employment law. The two fictional characters, Mr. Fuchs, a lawyer at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and Ms. Winter, Head of Human Resources at a client’s company, discuss the year’s most important employment law topics in a video conference. There have been news about the 2019 CJEU ruling on the recording of working hours by Emden Labor Court relating to the documentation of working hours. Mr ...

Leading Hungarian law firm reinforces continued innovation and renewal with a fresh face Szecskay Attorneys at Law has unveiled a new logo and visual identity today, along with a refreshed website. As a leading independent fully-fledged Hungarian law firm specialized in Hungarian and cross-border business, Szecskay Attorneys at Law is marking its upcoming 30th anniversary with this new look ...

A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised bio healthcare company Belano Medical AG on issuing a convertible bond. Belano Medical intends to use the issue volume of up to EUR 15 million to accelerate its corporate growth. The interest rate is fixed at 8.25% p.a. with annual maturity, paid in arrears. The bond will mature in five years. In a first tranche, Belano Medical is targeting an issuance volume of some four million euros in December ...

97.68% of the creditors attending eterna Mode Holding GmbH’s second creditors’ meeting approved an extension of the 2017/2022 bond with a volume of EUR 25 million until June 3, 2024. A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised eterna in connection with the bond extension. By extending the maturity of the 2017/2022 bond, which originally matured in March 2022, to June 3, 2024, the term of the promissory note loan will be extended to June 10, 2023 ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that 13 of the firm’s attorneys have been elevated to partner and three attorneys have been elevated to counsel, effective Jan. 1. The new partners are Samuel T. Acker, Timothy L. Capria, Matthew S. DeAntonio, Evelyn McKinney Hill, Holly S. Hosford, Ryan J. Letson, Carly Miller, Spencer R. Mobley, Marc A. Nardone, Preston H ...

Bradley attorney Ryan Robichaux was elected chair of the Alabama State Bar's (ASB) Elections, Ethics and Government Relations Law section for 2021. The section addresses professional development, improvement of laws and continuing legal education related to elections, ethics and government relations law ...

As the new year begins, Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce the 2021 promotion of new partners and senior counsels ...

Hong Huang Ms. Huang specializes in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and offshore securities offerings and restructurings. Ms. Huang has participated in a large number of complex equity and asset transactions and has provided legal services to numerous private equity funds, venture capital funds, and leading internet companies in relation to their equity investment and acquisition transactions. Ms ...

China Business Law Journal recently published its 2020 list of elite lawyers (the "A-List"). The A-List includes 200 top private practice lawyers for China-related business, with 100 lawyers working in PRC firms and 100 in foreign firms, who have demonstrated outstanding performance in China-related practice and have impressed their clients with excellent professional skills. The A-List highlights lawyers who are regarded as authorities in the industry. Han Kun partners Charles Li and Ms ...

Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce that Mr. Luo Shaolin has recently joined the firm, further strengthening Han Kun's M&A and private equity practices. He will mainly be based in the firm's Beijing office. Prior to joining Han Kun, Mr. Luo Shaolin was a partner of Loyal Valley Capital. Before that, he served as an assistant to the chairman and as the general counsel of YF Capital, and as a partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, based in the firm's Beijing and Hong Kong offices ...

Taylor H. Wilson has begun his term as managing partner of Haynes and Boone, LLP, becoming the fourth lawyer to lead the firm in its 50-year history. A veteran partner who helped build Haynes and Boone’s Investment Management Practice Group, Wilson begins his tenure at a promising time for the firm despite the continuing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Bradley attorney Bruce Ely was quoted in Bloomberg Tax on state tax departments' decisions to offer virtual options for taxpayers after the pandemic. States generally adapted quickly to offer virtual ways to conduct business when offices closed last year amid the coronavirus pandemic ...

"California Cases To Watch In 2021" Law360 By: Dorothy Atkins "Mary-Christine 'M.C.' Sungaila, chair of the appellate practice at Buchalter, said COVID-19 disruptions have lasted for so long that court dockets are overloaded and judges want to move ahead with in-person jury trials as best they can, with criminal cases taking priority ...

"Calif. Real Estate Regulations, Legislation To Watch In 2021" Law360 By Andrew McIntyre "Since the passage of Prop. 13 in 1978, commercial and residential properties in the state have only been reassessed for tax purposes when they've sold, and lawmakers and special interest groups have been trying to rewrite the law for decades. Voters in November rejected a so-called split roll change to Prop. 13 by voting down Prop ...

Bradley attorney Aron Beezley was quoted in Law360 on the government contracts policies to watch in 2021 as federal contractors prepare for a transition in the White House. The switch from one administration to another always comes with policy changes, and federal contractors are often among the first to feel those changes, as much of the policy affecting this area can be changed by executive order or regulation without Congress' involvement ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Len Wolfe has commenced his three-year term as chairman and chief executive officer of the firm. Wolfe succeeds Peter M. Kellett, who has served as chairman and chief executive officer since 2012 ...

Bradley attorney Ty Howard was quoted in Communications Daily on the FTC’s recent inquiry into social media company data collection practices, which could likely result in enforcement action, much like the agency’s 6(b) study that led to its antitrust case against Facebook. The FTC sent orders to Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Amazon, Twitter, ByteDance, Reddit, Snap and Discord earlier this month ...

Morgan & Morgan advised Farmalisto, a health technology platform with presence in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, with respect to the equity investment made by HBM Healthcare Investments (Cayman) Ltd., Inter-American Investment Corporation, Morgan Rio Capital Management, and other minority investors for the amount of up to US$18,000,000.00 in Farmalisto ...

Buenos Aires, 28 December 2020. Beccar Varela advised Tarjeta Naranja S.A. on Class XLV notes issuance, worth AR$3,057,000,000, carried out under the company’s Global Program of up to US$1,000 million. In this issuance, Tarjeta Naranja acted as issuer, Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U. as the organizer and placement agent and Banco Patagonia S.A. and Banco Santander Río S.A. as placement agents, who were advised by Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen (PAGBAM) ...

A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, and Michael Pauli from the Cologne office of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek provided legal advice to WuXi Biologics, a global company with leading open-access biologics technology platforms, on the acquisition of a drug substance facility from Bayer AG. The signing took place on December 21, 2020. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory assessment, is expected to close in the first half of 2021 ...

With a team led by Marcel Greubel, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised ARRI on the sale of ARRI Media, which specializes in post-production and film distribution, to Seal group effective March 1, 2021. ARRI Media will not only retain its entire range of services but will further expand it with new technologies. Following the acquisition, all German sites and all ARRI Media jobs will be retained ...

<p>The International Antitrust Rating of <span data-color='#ff351b'>Global Competition Review (GCR) 100</span> has named <span data-color='#ff351b'>ALRUD Law Firm,</span> as a recommended firm in the Elite Group for the twelfth time.</p> <p>Our Antitrust Practice has been a leader in all areas of Russian antitrust enforcement for many years ...