Press Releases

We are delighted to announce Deacons has been awarded multiple accolades in the 2019 Asian-mena Counsel In-House Community Firm of the Year awards. Each year, the In-House Community canvasses it’s 20,000+ in-house counsel members to ask, “Which law firms do you prefer to use?”, and more importantly “Why?”.  This is largest and most definitive poll of buyers of legal services, and a record breaking number of in-house lawyers participated in the survey this year ...

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/lee_denton/details">Lee D. Denton</a> joined the firm as an associate in its North Carolina office.<br /> <br /> Denton's primary area of practice is litigation, with an emphasis on complex business cases, estates litigation, construction defect cases and personal injury litigation ...

Kochhar & Co. has been ranked as India’s Top-Tier Firm in seven practice areas including Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, TMT, Labour & Employment, Intellectual Property, White Collar Crime and Aviation (including Aerospace and Defence). The Firm has also been recognised as a Leading Firm in the five practice areas of Real Estate & Construction, Anti-Trust & Competition, Banking & Finance, Projects Energy & Infrastructure and Tax ...

A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised high-tech company TRUMPF Hüttinger, a member of Ditzingen-based TRUMPF Group, on the acquisition of HBH Microwave GmbH. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. TRUMPF Hüttinger will thus expand its technology portfolio with semiconductor-based solid-state microwave generators. The generators are used in industrial applications such as plasma generation, industrial heating, communication, or radar technologies ...

<strong>Charleston, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Kelly J. Kimble, Travis A. Knobbe, Brienne T. Marco, Joseph V. Schaeffer and Christina S. Terek were elected as Members of the law firm effective January 1, 2020.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/kelly_kimble/details">Kimble</a> is based in the firm's Morgantown, West Virginia office ...

<strong>Pittsburgh</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/fayezeh_haji%20hassan/details">Fayezeh Haji Hassan</a> has joined the firm as an associate.<br /> <br /> At Spilman, Haji Hassan's practice will focus on general corporate matters and securities law. She handles corporate transactions and commercial agreements. She also works on employment-based immigration matters ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has appointed Philip Tansley, an expert in cyber incident response, as a partner based in their London office. Philip was previously a partner at Keystone Law and co-founded a multi-award winning multi-disciplinary incident response service. Philip will be joining Shoosmiths to further develop their cyber incident response capability, complimenting their existing emergency response service and leading data protection and privacy practice ...

Brigard Urrutia is proud to announce the strengthening of its Corporate / M&A team with the appointment of Fernando Castillo and Tomas Holguín as new Partners of the Firm, effective as of January 1, 2020. The new partners are lawyers who have stood out for their personal qualities and for their professional skills, demonstrating exceptional leadership in the legal services market and achieving an important trajectory in the Firm ...

A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of 68 percent of the shares in Diebold Nixdorf Portavis GmbH from Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated. With the acquisition, DATAGROUP expands its existing business with high-quality cloud services and IT operating services in the financial sector. DATAGROUP also aspires to use the merger to achieve faster growth. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

A team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit advised HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH on the sale of burger chain Hans im Glück. Former majority shareholder AML Invest Treuhandgesellschaft mbH sold and transferred its stake in HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH to an investor group. The group includes GAB Grundstücks-, Finanzierungs-, Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH, an existing minority shareholder, and the founders of bakery chain Backwerk, Dr. Dirk Schneider and Dr. Hans-Christian Limmer ...

65% of employees cited long hours as their primary concern, with Generation Z singling out a lack of workplace diversity (65%) 81% of employees said strong corporate culture is one of the most important factors when deciding whether to join or stay at a company, with Generation Z viewing it as equally important as salary Introducing equal gender pay is seen as the top priority for companies in the next 12-24 months A survey of more than 1,000 working professionals and 100 senior in-house

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Members <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/carrie_grundmann/details">Carrie H. Grundmann</a> and <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/bryan_scott/details">Bryan G. Scott</a> were recognized by North Carolina Super Lawyers ...

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 rankings were recently released and once again Deacons has achieved a strong set of results across the board. Overall we are ranked in 18 practice areas in the Hong Kong and China chapters. We are delighted to be recognised for the first time in ‘Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms’ and ‘Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms ‘in the China chapter, alongside our Intellectual Property practice which continues to receive recognition ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has expanded its award-winning real estate team with the appointment of Simon Foster as a partner. Simon previously worked at Laytons Solicitors for the entire 13 years of his career and established his name by building a property litigation practice from the ground up. He is recommended in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners ...

A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach advised the globally active company WuXi Biologics on the acquisition of a sterile filling and freeze-drying plant from Bayer AG. The plant is designed for the filling and freeze-drying of the blood-coagulation medication Kovaltry®. The plant will be operated on the premises of the Chempark in Leverkusen. For this purpose, a long-term sublease agreement for the use of the building was concluded ...

The world's leading legal ratings agency Chambers & Partners recently published its second edition of The Global Practice Guide on Litigation (2019) (the "Guide"). Han Kun partner Mr. Liyu (Denning) Jin was invited to author the China law and practice chapter. Han Kun is the only PRC-headquartered law firm contributor to the China litigation chapter of the Guide. Han Kun associates Mr. Yuxian Zhao and Mr. Yang Liu also contributed to the writing of this chapter ...

Chambers & Partners, the world's foremost legal media publisher, recently released its Chambers FinTech Guide 2020, which features rankings in the sector for four professional services in 37 jurisdictions. Han Kun has again been ranked as a Band 1 Law Firm for fintech-related legal services in China. This is Han Kun's second consecutive year to be ranked Band 1 ...

Morgan & Morgan is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Ms. Maria Eugenia Crespo and Mr. Miguel A. Arias, as associates of the Corporate Law team of the firm. Before joining Morgan & Morgan, Ms. Crespo was engaged in her own legal initiative, 4UR-RIGHTS PANAMA, which focused on providing affordable legal support to victims of fraud and other criminal conduct, while also providing commercial and administrative advice to clients in different matters ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, successfully defended Kia Motors America, Kia Motors Corporation, and Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (collectively, “KIA”) in a product liability case in the Superior Court of Los Angeles. After a 17-day trial, and after deliberating for just 90 minutes, on February 13, 2020, a jury returned a defense verdict in favor of KIA. Plaintiffs were seeking more than $87M in damages ...

On January 16, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, the world's renowned legal media publisher, released its 2020 rankings of PRC law firms. Han Kun has 14 practice areas recognized in the 2020 rankings, and the firm is ranked as a "Tier 1"firm in private equity, investment funds, fintech, and TMT ...

Asters successfully represented ASK Technology Limited, a leading Hong Kong manufacturer of multi-GPU systems for mining, rendering and AI, in a dispute with a Finnish company that was resolved in Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The dispute revolved around a contract for the supply of equipment for the mining of Ethereum, one of the fastest growing cryptocurrencies alongside with Bitcoin ...

Han Kun's Hong Kong associated law firm represented Jiumaojiu International Holdings Limited ("JIUMAOJIU", Stock Code: 9922) in connection with its initial public offering in Hong Kong and Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 333,400,000 ordinary shares (prior to the exercise of the over-allotment option), which raised approximately HK$2.2 billion (US$283.0 million) in gross proceeds. The ordinary shares of JIUMAOJIU are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...

Rome, January 14, 2020 - Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners is once again named top law firm in the 2019 M&A Mergermarket Legal League Tables. With over 64 transactions and a total deal value of 11.4 billion dollars, GOP confirms its number one position in the M&A ranking for volume and is ranked in second position for value (deal counts) ...

Asters is delighted to announce promotion of Olga Lepikhina, Kateryna Oliynyk, Anton Sintsov, and Oleksandr Volkov to counsel effective 1 January 2020. Olga Lepikhina Olga Lepikhina’s track record includes more than 10 years of experience working at leading international and Ukrainian law firms. She holds master of law degree with honours from the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" ...

In December 2019, we reported on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (“ICASA’s”) publication of the Discussion Document on the Mobile Broadband Services Inquiry in South Africa. Following requests for an extension, ICASA has now agreed to allow an additional 15 working days for written submissions, extending the deadline from 6 February 2020 to 27 February 2020 ...