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UK law firm Shoosmiths is marking ten years since the launch of its highly successful regional series of free training events, designed for local employers’ in house legal (IHL) teams. The events cover a mix of technical and soft-skills training, and regularly attract IHLs from the region’s top businesses in and around Birmingham, Solent, Leeds, Manchester, London, Nottingham, Milton Keynes and the Thames Valley ...

Shoosmiths is celebrating its 35th year in Nottingham by setting out its ambitious new strategy to take the office to even greater success ...

ǼLEX is delighted to announce that Funke Adekoya, SAN, was crowned winner of the Partner of the Year Award at the African Legal Awards 2019. The African Legal Awards recognises exceptional achievement in Africa’s legal services industry. The scoring criteria include the contestant’s track record of exemplary leadership, strong legal skills, resourcefulness which has led to successes, upright client management practices, and measurable contributions to the wider community ...

One out of two women surveyed and one out of three men say they have suffered bullying at work, and one out of three women and one out of fourteen men say they have been harassed in a work context, according to the results of a global study on intimidation and sexual harassment in the legal industry conducted by the International Bar Association. The investigation was carried out in 135 countries, covering nearly 7,000 individuals from legal firms, companies, the judiciary and others ...

On September 19, 2019, the 13th annual China Law & Practice Awards was held in Beijing. Han Kun won the following three awards at the event: 1. Private Equity & Venture Capital China Firm of the Year 2. Pro Bono Firm of the Year 3. China Dealmaker of the Year – Dafei Chen The awards were presented by China Law & Practice in association with The American Lawyer, The Asian Lawyer and Legal Week ...

Asian Legal Business (ALB) recently released the ALB M&A Rankings 2019. Han Kun has again been ranked as a Tier 1 PRC Law Firm based on the firm’s exceptional performance in providing M&A legal services. This marks the sixth consecutive year for Han Kun to be ranked as Tier 1 in M&A. ALB is one of the most influential international legal media organizations, providing leading legal information and rankings ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that J. Michael Bernard, Detroit-based Member in the firm’s Corporate Finance Practice Group, was elected as Chairman of the World Services Group (WSG) for 2019 – 2020. Bernard officially took over the Chairman position at the WSG 18th Annual Meeting, which took place in Washington, D.C., from September 4-6 ...

A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office, successfully advised Wirtgen Invest in an off-market deal in its acquisition of the office building at Taunusanlage 8 (“T8”) from a real estate fund of the South Korean financial service provider Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. The parties agreed on confidentiality about the purchase price ...

Graham Thompson Partner Theo Burrows provides a comprehensive review of the "Law and Practice" of Doing Business in The Bahamas. The writing appears in the 2019 Chambers Global Practice Guide for doing business in countries and territories around the world. The guide provides an overview of the country's legal system, and delves into key areas related to conducting business and investments in The Bahamas ...

A team led by corporate and capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger advised 11880 Solutions AG on a capital increase from authorized capital with exclusion of subscription rights. 1,911,109 new shares were issued at an issue price of EUR 1.83 per share, which were fully subscribed and acquired by major shareholder united vertical media GmbH ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised NVM Private Equity (NVM) on its recent investment of £2 million into Duke & Dexter (D&D), an award winning men’s footwear label. Launched in 2014, D&D offers a range of high quality shoes, all manufactured by hand in the UK and has developed into a leading premium men’s shoe brand ...

Asialaw recently released its Asialaw Profiles 2020 directory for law firms and lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region. Han Kun was ranked in 15 industries/practice areas ...

<strong>Wheeling, W.Va.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/jeffrey_mccamic/details">Jeffrey W. McCamic</a>, formerly of the McCamic, Sacco & McCoid law firm, has joined the firm's Wheeling office ...

With the support of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Silberlake Real Estate Group acquired several residential buildings in the Ruhr area. A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke advised the Düsseldorf-based project and portfolio developer on the transaction. The properties, built in the 1970s, are located in Gelsenkirchen and Mülheim/Ruhr. Some 300 apartments comprise a total rental area of about 20,000 square meters. In addition, the properties offer 200 parking spaces overall ...

A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised investment and real estate service provider Domicil Real Estate Group on the sale of a residential property in the Hamburg district of Neuallermöhe as part of an asset deal. Real estate multi-family office PAMERA is the buyer. The 62 residential units of the property comprise a rental area of 4,564 square meters, the property also includes 22 underground parking spaces ...

A team led by Dr. Erdem Şişmangil has advised the restaurant chain BIGCHEFS on its market entry in Germany. The comprehensive advice included corporate law, leases, construction law, IT and data pro-tection law as well as media law, employment law, tax law, and public law. On September 5, 2019, the first German branch of BIGCHEFS was opened in the new food court of the Frankfurt shopping center MyZeil (Foodtopia). BIGCHEFS was founded in the Turkish capital Ankara in 2007 ...

In a project partnership with property developer and real estate investor nowinta Bau GmbH, project developer and operator i Live Group sold the “Campus Village II” serviced apartment project to HanseMerkur Grundvermögen AG. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised i Live Group on the transaction with a team led by Dr. Frank Baßler. The joint venture used crowdfunding on the Zinsland platform to finance the transaction ...

Resolution No. 17405 of August 29th, 2019. As of September 4TH, 2019, The National Immigration Authority (hereinafter “SNM” for its acronym in Spanish) established new requirements to request Rehabilitation of Permanent Residence Permits (hereinafter “Rehabilitation”) for foreigners, who have remained outside of Panama for more than two (2) years and up to six (6) years ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported another strong year for deals, with the value of transactions rising by 10% (£13.4 billion) in the 2019 financial year to 30 April. The team completed 167 deals with a combined value of £145.4 billion, up from 162 deals valued at £132 billion in 2017/18 ...

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 ...