Press Releases

Bradley attorney Jonathan Kolodziej was quoted in Inside Mortgage Finance on the compliance challenges that mortgage servicers are facing due to COVID-19. Servicers have been inundated with requests for forbearance and other mortgage payment relief since President Trump signed the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill that allows certain borrowers to request payment deferment from their mortgage servicers ...

DORDA IP/IT and data protection experts Axel Anderl, Nino Tlapak and Alona Klammer supported Lernsieg Mobile Media GmbH in the relaunch of the mobile app "Lernsieg", which was previously taken offline after a short time following massive counter-campaigns in autumn 2019. Vienna, 2 April 2020 – DORDA has comprehensively assisted Lernsieg Mobile Media GmbH with advice on data protection issues relating to the admissibility and relaunch of the "Lernsieg" app ...

As of April 1, 2020, Marcel Hostettler has joined Heuking’s Zurich office as a new Partner. Marcel Hostettler comes to the law firm from MME. He is accompanied by Associate Eric Baumgartner (Capital Markets and Tax). Dr. Anna Wehrmüller (Regulatory and Compliance) and Dr. Peter Märkl (Banking and Finance) will join the team on May 1, 2020 ...

Buenos Aires, March 31st, 2020. On March 26th, Beccar Varela promoted Federico Sosa and Francisco Zavalía to partner, in recognition of their talent and of the great contribution they have made to the firm in the areas of litigation and white collar & corporate crime respectively. Federico Sosa joined the firm in 2002. He focuses on litigation, particularly class actions, insolvency and bankruptcy ...

Bradley attorney Gene Besen was featured in a Q&A with the Dallas Business Journal on the economic impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on healthcare providers and related businesses. DBJ: What are your clients currently worried about in the midst of this crisis? Besen: Many of our clients are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 ...

Bradley attorney Whitt Steineker was quoted in Marijuana Business Daily on the benefits that southern states could offer to medical marijuana businesses looking to set up shop. While the medical marijuana legalization efforts remain a work in progress in the South, the region is showing signs of advancement and could offer major advantages to future businesses. Steineker said Alabama “would be an attractive place by both the cost of plant (facilities) and the cost of labor ...

Medical Record Retention Requires Good Policies, Strict Compliance Healthcare Risk Management April 1, 2020 "Many healthcare organizations follow a policy of keeping medical records for seven years, says Andrew Selesnick, JD, shareholder with Buchalter in Los Angeles. “However, we usually recommend 10 years because if there is a dispute and the medical records are unavailable, defending on such a claim could be more problematic,” he says ...

Hospitals likely to face protective gear lawsuits, attorneys say Los Angeles Daily Journal By: Winston Cho "Damaris Medina, an attorney at Buchalter who regularly represents hospitals systems, called for protection for hospitals that will be hit by lawsuits from health workers for exposing them to hazardous working conditions ...

Office Tenants and Owners are Feeling the Coronavirus Crunch Globe Street By: Lisa Brown "SAN FRANCISCO—In these unprecedented times of COVID-19, office owners are feeling the crunch right along with many others. End of the month moves are shot, there are issues with tenants moving in and out, and dates are being pushed out for build-outs, says Manuel Fishman, shareholder at Buchalter in San Francisco. 'It is during these times that human nature comes out,' Fishman tells GlobeSt.com ...

Deacons' Financial Services team has assisted Shanxi Securities International Asset Management Limited on the successful listing of its first exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETF commenced trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 27 March 2020 and is not only the manager’s first retail product in Hong Kong, but also the first ETF which invests in onshore iron ore futures via the Dalian Commodity Exchange’s futures product internationalisation scheme ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek is providing legal support to the Esprit Group in an ongoing restructuring process with the objective of maintaining operations during the corona crisis, strengthening the group's liquidity and securing the future of the Esprit brand. The project is being supported by lawyers in particular from Dusseldorf and Munich, with Heuking partners Prof. Dr. Georg Streit and Dr. Marc Scheunemann acting as lead partners ...

In January, Soccer Québec and the Montreal Impact announced a partnership to boost the popularity and quality of Quebec soccer. Lavery had the opportunity to support Soccer Québec in reaching this agreement, which is the first in Canada between a professional soccer club and a provincial sporting federation ...

Morgan & Morgan advised the shareholders of Unity Group, a holding company with subsidiaries engaged in insurance brokerage in Central America with operations in six countries (Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), in a corporate restructuring and subsequent sale of its business to Willis Europe B.V., a company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands and a subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), a leading global brokerage and consulting firm ...

Representation of the Israel Football Association – Preference for Arbitration over the Labor Court Our firm represented the Israel Football Association (the “IFA“) at the Regional Labor Court in Jerusalem on the issue of the status of the IFA’s internal judicial bodies. In a nutshell, a dispute arose between the football players and between their clubs relating to the players’ employment rights ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Nathaniel J. Greeson has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as an associate in the Government Contracts Practice Group. Mr. Greeson represents clients in a range of government procurement issues, including bid protests, claims, disputes, audits, and investigations ...

Han Kun has recently been recognized as a notable firm in "Trade mark contentious" in the "2020 Global Intellectual Property Star" rankings issued by Managing Intellectual Property ("MIP"), the world's leading authoritative intellectual property media organization. MIP provides the world's leading intellectual property information and news analysis, comprehensive coverage of intellectual property legal information, and has a high reputation in the industry ...

On March 24, 2020, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP secured a case-ending victory for our client, a medical device manufacturer, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The defendant was sanctioned for perpetrating fraud on the court by withholding information and relevant documents in bad faith during discovery, as set forth in Judge Lois Bloom’s Report and Recommendation in May of last year ...

Afridi & Angell recently advised Thomas Cook India Group (TCI), a leading global integrated travel services player, on a fast paced AED149 million (USD40.6 million) acquisition of 51 per cent stake in Digiphoto Entertainment Imaging (DEI), a UAE headquartered imaging solutions and service provider ...

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised the underwriters on an SEC-registered offering by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) of $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds, 2.85% Series due April 1, 2025. FPL was incorporated under the laws of Florida in 1925 and is a rate-regulated electric utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Florida ...

COBALT advises SA KredEx on conducting public procurement in 2020 for the development of the Estonian start-up business ecosystem and start-up business development programs. The purpose of the procurement is to mitigate through comprehensive value propositions the bottlenecks in the start-up business ecosystem, which hinder the development of start-ups / potential start-ups and/or the ecosystem as a whole ...

COBALT advises the leading fashion brand house in the Baltics AS Baltika in reorganisation proceedings. Baltika is in the opinion that in the current situation reorganisation of the company is the best way to protect the rights and interests of the shareholders, the employees, the creditors and the partners of Baltika ...

DORDA IP/IT and data protection experts Axel Anderl and Dominik Schelling support sportsWorld in a cooperation with Formula 1 in connection with the pop-up exhibition "Bond in Motion". Vienna, 26 March 2020 – DORDA advised sportsWorld Operations GmbH on several contracts with Formula 1 ...

YKVN advised Masan Group Corporation (HOSE: MSN) as sole counsel in relation to its acquisition of the Vingroup’s retail and agriculture units – VinCommerce and VinEco through share swap. The Vingroup’s retail and agriculture units – VinCommerce and VinEco are transferred to MSN and together with MSN’s subsidiary – Masan Consumer Holdings will be the country’s biggest retail group ...

On February 21, Vista Oil & Gas SAU issued Class III Negotiable Obligations for a nominal value of US $ 50,000,000, in an emblematic transaction that included the integration of the securities in Pesos and their repayment in United States Dollars in an account abroad ...

On January 31, 2020, Raízen Gas SA, a company dedicated to the business of fractionation, commercialization and distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), advised by Marval O´Farrel Mairalfue acquired by Italgas SA The value of the operation is confidential. The transaction makes Italgas, advised by Beccar Varela, one of the main players in the commercialization and distribution of LPG. The transaction also involved the negotiation of supply agreements to provide Raízen Gas S.A ...