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<p><span data-color='#ff351b'>The Lawyer European Awards 2020</span> Ceremony took place online on Tuesday <span data-color='#ff351b'>1st December 2020.</span> The evening was a resounding success, with trophies awarded to firms from across the Europe.</p> <p>According to the rating results, The Lawyer awarded ALRUD as <span data-color='#ff351b'>the best law firm in Russia and the CIS in 2020 ...

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Asters is awarded 2020 Law Firm of the Year: Ukraine by The Lawyer, a leading British magazine and news portal covering the legal market. Due to the pandemic the results of The Lawyer European Awards 2020 were announced online on 1 December 2020. Widely recognized as the benchmark of excellence, The Lawyer European Awards rewards and celebrates independent and global law firms acting in the European legal market ...

Beccar Varela advised Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U. on Class VIII notes issuance, worth AR$1.589.722.222, in accordance with the company’s Prospectus for the issuance in tranches for a maximum nominal value of up to US$ 2.100.000.000 (US dollars two thousand one hundred million), under the Frecuent Issuer Regime. In this issuance, Banco Galicia acted as issuer and placement agent. Class VIII notes issuance took place on November 20, 2020 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Basil A. Umari and Nicholas Zugaro as senior counsel to the firm’s Bankruptcy Practice Group in Texas. Both attorneys join Dykema from the boutique law firm they co-founded, Umari Zugaro, PLLC. Additionally, Dykema expects to expand its Bankruptcy Practice Group by adding more talent in the near future ...

Rome, December 1, 2020 – International law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners is pleased to announce the change of its name to Gianni & Origoni. Along with the new name, the firm launches a complete rebranding which includes a new logo, a new corporate identity, and a revamp of its website ...

On November 30, 2020, the Düsseldorf Insolvency Court issued resolutions terminating the insolvency proceedings of six German subsidiaries of the Esprit Group. As a result, Esprit Holdings Limited, listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, remains the sole shareholder of these subsidiaries that account for the key part of Esprit Group’s business operations. A team led by Dr. Marc Scheunemann and Prof. Dr ...

On November 17, 2020, the Municipality of Guatemala awarded, for a 25-year term, the concession of the phase I of the Aerometro Project to the joint and several group conformed by Cablevía de Guatemala, Sociedad Anónima, Desarrollos Residenciales Victoria, Sociedad Anónima, Desarrollos Torino, Sociedad Anónima, and Doppelmayr Guatemala, Sociedad Anónima ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that 134 attorneys across the firm’s offices in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee were selected as 2020 Mid-South Super Lawyers or Rising Stars. In addition, the following Bradley attorneys in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee were named to Top 50 or Top 100 Super Lawyers lists for 2020: Top 50 Birmingham Super Lawyers Matthew H. Lembke (Appellate) Daniel F. Murphy (Health Care) Top 50 Alabama Super Lawyers Matthew H ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm’s Construction Practice Group was named among Law360’s 2020 Practice Groups of the Year, one of only five firms in the nation to receive this honor. Law360’s annual Practice Group of the Year awards honor law firm practice groups that have accomplished the most significant litigation wins or deals over the past year. This year’s honorees were selected from more than 800 submissions ...

Buchalter attorneys represented Transamerica in the $650 million sale of San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid Center, the largest U.S. real estate deal since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sale includes the entire Transamerica Pyramid block, and was the first time this entire block traded since the Pyramid was built in 1972 ...

The Recorder "California Justice Leondra Kruger Sees Spotlight Amid Biden Transition" By: Cheryl Miller "Almost six years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown found himself defending his nomination of Leondra Kruger to the California Supreme Court. Critics wanted to know why Brown didn’t pick a practicing California attorney or judge. Why go with a U.S ...

With a team led by Partner Dr. Wolfgang Renner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek assisted IT Service Center Berlin in the “Digital File” award procedure. The invitation to bid was issued by the Senate Administration for the Interior and Sports of the State of Berlin, which awarded the contract for the introduction of the Digital File in all Berlin government agencies to Materna in an EU-wide award procedure. The total project volume is estimated at some EUR 200 million ...

With a team led by Partner Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised VR Equitypartner‘s portfolio company Kälte Eckert GmbH on the acquisition of SOS Kältetechnik GmbH based in Königsdorf near Munich. The stake was sold by Alexander Stiegler Iurato, the sole shareholder who will continue to operate as SOS Kältetechnik’s general manager ...

NNDKP successfully assisted a syndicate of banks - comprising Banca Comercială Română S.A. (member of Erste Group), acting as Bookrunner, Mandated Lead Arranger, Documentation Agent and Facility and Security Agent, CEC Bank as Mandated Lead Arranger, and participating banks EximBank SA, Intesa Sanpaolo Romania SA and OTP Bank Romania SA – in granting an EUR 90 million loan facility to the Carmistin Group, one of the main players on the agricultural and zootehnical market in Romania ...

Asters successfully defended PrivatBank CB JSC, the largest bank by asset size in Ukraine, in a dispute worth over UAH 7.5 billion before the Commercial Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court over the legality of the creditor's charging extra fees (in addition to interest on the loan) and recovering such fees at the expense of mortgaged property (the Bukovel Ski Resort) ...

A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Swiss industrial group Artum AG on the acquisition of an interest in EppsteinFOILS GmbH & Co. KG from investment firm CornerstoneCapital among others. Jointly with the long-standing general manager Dirk Mälzer, Artum intends to continue EppsteinFOILS GmbH & Co ...

Starting in January 2020, Dykema, a leading national law firm, became involved with The Promise of Justice Initiative’s (PJI) Jim Crow Juries Project aimed at combatting systemic racism. In collaboration with some of the firm’s clients, Dykema is working pro bono with the PJI as co-counsel to address the injustice stemming from Jim Crow laws passed in Louisiana in the 1800s that permitting non-unanimous jury verdicts in criminal matters ...

Effective immediately, Dr. Philip Kempermann is taking over the IT division in the management of commercial law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Dr. Peter Ladwig, who has been responsible for IT and Digitalization in management since November 2018, is handing over the IT division to Kempermann. Dr. Johan Schneider, previously responsible for Organization and Business Processes, will additionally take over the Digitalization division. Dr ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Ryan S. Alexander to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a Member in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Alexander joins Dykema from Lewis Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, LLP. Alexander concentrates his practice on corporate, commercial and technology transactional matters ...

Asters advised a global chemical producer, large international and Ukrainian traders, and a major local industrial consumer in the safeguard investigation on imports of polymeric materials to Ukraine. In the final decision the scope of products subject to safeguard duties was significantly narrowed down, the definitive duty was decreased to 12.4% (the provisional duty was set at 18%) ...

Onno Boerstra is nominated to win the mena.nl title Best M&A Lawyer, an award. Together with Sjoerd Stokmans and their team Onno also advised on 3 transactions that also deserved a nomination this year: KKR - Roompot Group (Best Deal), COFRA - Sunrock (Best Deal Mid Market) and Torqx Capital Partners - Fabory (Best Small Cap Deal) ...

ALRUD regulatory practice has prepared a review for "Legal Regulatory Guide Russia. Vol.1", which summarizes the most significant changes and trends in Russian legislation, in the field of administrative regulation of business in the second and third quarters of 2020 ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has reported a busy first half of the 2020/21 financial year, supporting clients with strong and sustained deal activity despite the challenging environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The firm’s corporate finance lawyers advised on deals with a combined value exceeding £2 billion in the six months to 31 October 2020 ...

Asters acted as a legal counsel to Naftogaz Energoservice, a subsidiary of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine (the largest oil and gas company of Ukraine) in connection with the construction of a 33 MW solar power plant in the town of Chudniv (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine). The solar power plant in Chudniv was commissioned in September 2020. The latest technological solutions and highly efficient equipment from the world's leading manufacturers were used in its construction ...