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National law firm Shoosmiths has confirmed the opening of a Glasgow hub, building on the success of its Edinburgh office and further extending Shoosmiths’ operational footprint in Scotland. Barry McKeown, who recently joined Shoosmiths growing real estate team as a partner, is responsible for further developing the firm’s presence in the west of Scotland. The hub is based within the Spaces development on West Regent Street in Glasgow city centre ...

Senior executives from Mainstream Renewable Power Chile and lawyers from Carey and Morales & Besa, marked the kickoff of the financing of the second portfolio of the Mainstream Renewable Power renewable energy project platform called Huemul. This portfolio, which includes three wind and two solar projects for a total of 621 MW, involves a bank financing of around US$550 million ...

World Services Group (WSG) is pleased to announce that Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (Bradley) has joined the WSG network as the exclusive legal member for Alabama and Mississippi. The addition of such a prominent law firm in the Southeastern region of the United States exemplifies the purposeful expansion of WSG membership. Founded in 1870 in Alabama, Bradley is a national general practice firm that exemplifies excellence among independent law firms doing business globally ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today the addition of Joanne L. Zimolzak to its Insurance Industry Group and Business Litigation Practice as a Member in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Zimolzak joins Dykema after practicing at LeClairRyan. Prior to LeClairRyan, she served as the Office Managing Partner of the Dentons LLP Washington, D.C., office ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 26 of its attorneys from the firm’s four Texas offices—and from multiple practice areas—were named to the 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list by Texas Super Lawyers Magazine. In March of this year, 13 of the Firm’s attorneys were also included on the 2019 Texas Rising Stars list. Of those recognized, both Chris Kratovil and Deborah Williamson were each included on Super Lawyers “Top Lists ...

Shoosmiths will work closely with WeWork, a global space, community and service company and will focus, in particular, in providing legal advice in the following key areas in the UK and Ireland, Employment; Commercial; Corporate; and Health & Safety and Environmental. WeWork is present in 111 cities and 29 countries with over 527,000 members globally and 40% of these being enterprise clients. The WeWork panel review was led by Sarah Nelson Smith, Regional General Counsel, EMEA ...

The DORDA Digital Industries Group headed by Axel Anderl advised the Danish Tech StartUp Too Good To Go (TGTG) on the launch of its operations in Austria. Too Good To Go offers a sustainable solution against the waste of food. The TGTG App allows businesses such as bakeries, restaurants, cafés, hotels and supermarkets to sell surplus food to self-collecting customers at a substantially reduced price ...

Morgan & Morgan and 3 lawyers of the firm are nominated in the first edition of the Latin American Energy and Infrastructure Awards, an event organized by the Iberian Legal Group and its publication The Latin American Lawyer, with the aim to recognize the excellence and achievements of professionals in the energy and infrastructure sector in the region. The nominations include the following categories: Law firm of the Year - Panama. Lawyer of the Year - Inocencio Galindo, Ramón Varela ...

SMS Latinoamérica professionals are designated reviewers by the International Integrated Reporting Council. SMS specialists in Integrated Reports will join as reviewers in the program that supports the implementation of the IR framework by sharing investors and integrated reporting specialists views of integrated reports, improve understanding of current global progress on integrated reporting and identify opportunities for improvement ...

A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein advised DATAGROUP on the acquisition of parts of IT-Informatik GmbH from insolvency. DATAGROUP takes over all shares in Mercoline GmbH and in IT Digitalizacion 4.0 Industrial Internacional S.L., as well as employees and assets of IT-Informatik GmbH. IT-Informatik GmbH was founded in 1987 in Ulm and is a specialist for SAP consulting and maintenance, cloud infrastructure, and software development ...

A team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Kiel, on the acquisition of Bavarian-based Messring Group. With the August 16 purchase agreement, DMB acquired the crash test technology specialist retroactively as of January 1, 2019. The sellers are the two general managers Robert Weber and Dierk Arp, who will remain general managers of the group ...

With a team led by M&A Partner Boris Dürr, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Primepulse SE and its subsidiary Katek SE on the acquisition of bebro electronic group and eSystems MTG GmbH. The acquisition of bebro and eSystems continues Katek’s expansion as one of Europe’s leading service providers in the electronics sector ...

Morgan & Morgan acted as counsel to Grupo Mercantil in connection with the registration of 104,760,961 common shares of its Panamanian holding Mercantil Servicios Financieros Internacional, S.A. with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama for its negotiation in the secondary market, shares that have been also listed on the Panama Stock Exchange since August 22, 2019. Partners Francisco Arias, Roberto Vidal and Ricardo Arias, participated in this transaction ...

Yvonne Brady, Head of Restructuring and Business Advisory at Shepherd and Wedderburn, was last night named Best Professional in Business at the Scottish Women’s Awards 2019 ...

<strong>Charleston, W.Va. </strong>— Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that partner <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/heather_jones/details">Heather Heiskell Jones</a> recently joined the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), one of the most prestigious legal organizations in the world ...

DORDA strengthens its legal practices in the areas of corporate M&A, banking and capital markets, dispute resolution and insurance litigation by promoting three new senior associates. Clemens Burian (corporate law, capital markets law, takeover law) and Alexander Karl (commercial & insurance litigation, arbitration) were recently admitted to the bar. Oliver Thurin (Corporate/M&A, Corporate Law, Capital Markets) just joined DORDA at the beginning of August ...

KSB has provided comprehensive legal advice to the Solitea Group on the acquisition of a stake in the company Dotykacka and the acquisition of Smart Software, operating the Markeeta brand. The legal advice consisted mainly in the preparation and negotiation of acquisition contracts. As a result of these acquisitions, Solitea has significantly expanded its market share in the EET market, tripling the number of its accounting systems and becoming the market leader in this market ...

KŠB’s team led by partners Dagmar Dubecká and Martin Krejčí with associates Ivo Průša and Jana Guričová advised Karlovarské minerální vody Group (KMV), which, in a joint venture with PepsiCo, acquired Knjaz Miloš – the largest Serbian mineral water and non-alcoholic beverage producer ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that in addition to being selected by the San Antonio Business Journal as a 2019 Outstanding Lawyers Awards recipient, the publication has chosen Dykema’s Deborah Williamson as its annual Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Williamson and the other Outstanding Lawyers honorees will be formally recognized at an event scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 3 at The Veranda in San Antonio ...

Panama, August 26, 2019. Morgan & Morgan acted as counsel to Cirsa Enterprises S.L.U. in connection with the offering of €490,000,000 senior secured notes due 2025 with a floating interest rate of three-month EURIBOR (subject to a 0% floor) plus 362.5 basis points per year, reset quarterly, issued by Cirsa Finance International S.à.r.l., and to be guaranteed by the Cirsa Enterprises S.L.U. and, among others, Gaming & Services de Panama, S.A ...

Vouga Abogados has had the opportunity to represent the firm PARAGUAY REFRESCOS S.A. (PARESA), Coca-Cola’s franchisee in Paraguay, in a lawsuit against it on moral damages and emerging damages for an alleged non-consensual use of the image of a person in an advertisement ...

One of the largest deals of 2019 is officially completed – Mid Europa Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, sold its shares in Knjaz Milos to a joint venture between Karlovarske Mineralni Vody (KMV) and PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo). Karanovic & Partners acted as local counsel for Mid Europa Partners in this transaction, working closely with White & Case as international counsel ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, represented the Emmet County Lakeshore Association and the Protection of Rights Alliance (PORA) in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan’s dismissal of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Whitmer case ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 40 of its attorneys from the firm’s five Michigan offices—and from multiple practice areas—were named to the 2019 Super Lawyers list by Michigan Super Lawyers Magazine. Additionally, 19 of the firm’s attorneys were named to the 2019 Michigan Rising Stars list. Of those recognized, both Brian Moore and Jill Wheaton were each also included on Super Lawyers “Top Lists.” The Top List(s) they have been included on, are: Brian M ...

Stefan Artner, DORDA partner and head of the real estate practice group, and Magdalena Brandstetter, senior associate at DORDA, advised Europe's leading hotel developer UBM Development and the real estate investment company S IMMO AG on one of the largest real estate transactions of the year. In a forward deal, the office properties QBC 1&2 with a rentable area of over 38,000 sqm, with underground parking and almost 680 parking spaces were sold ...