Press Releases

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that it served as outside legal counsel for Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm (Atar), in its acquisition of Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) through Atar’s portfolio company, Recycling and Waste Solutions (RWS). The transaction marks the third acquisition for which Dykema has assisted Atar in the past six months ...

Dykema is proud to announce that David West, San Antonio-based Member in Dykema’s Financial Services Litigation Practice Group, has earned a Lexology Content Marketing Award for Q1 2019 ...

Han Kun has been recognized as a "2019 Employer of Choice" in the ALB China Employer of Choice Rankings 2019. This is the seventh time for Han Kun to receive the honor. The 2019 Employer of Choice survey was launched in January and received more than 1,200 responses from employees of different law firms during the one-month survey period ...

ALB recently released its list of China's Top 15 TMT Lawyers. Han Kun Partner Ms. Yang Ying is included in this list. Ms. Yang Ying focuses her practice on private equity and venture capital financings, securities issuances and listings and mergers and acquisitions. Ms ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has elected Andrew Blain as its new Managing Partner. He will assume the role on 1 May 2019. Andrew has been a member of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Board since 2009 as Divisional Director of the Corporate Division. He will build upon the firm’s significant progress and achievements on behalf of clients in recent years ...

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/dawnielle_grace,%20mba/details">Dawnielle Y. Grace</a> and <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/alexander_turner/details">Alexander L. Turner</a> have joined the firm's litigation team in its Winston-Salem office ...

Kochhar & Co. successfully represented the three leading public sector units (PSUs) namely Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited – BPCL; Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited – HPCL; and Indian Oil Corporation Limited – IOCL; together referred to as the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against allegations of anti-competitiveness and abuse of dominant position ...

The Center for Drug Evaluation under the National Medical Products Administration has recently accepted the investigational new drug application for a new death receptor 5 agonist antibody (JCT205) jointly developed by Transcenta Holding and U.S.-based InhibRx. JCT205 is intended for use as a monotherapy for treating various tumors, such as digestive tract tumors and mesothelioma. Previously, JCT205 was also entered into a Phase I clinical study in the United States in December 2018 ...

On April 18, 2019, the Asian Legal Business China Law Awards 2019 were held in Beijing. Alibaba's acquisition of full ownership of Ele.me, in which Han Kun acted as counsel to Ele.me, was awarded "M&A Deal of the Year - Premium". The ALB China Law Awards has reached its 16th year. Each year these awards are presented to recognize the excellence and outstanding achievements of China's leading law firms and in-house legal teams as well as the top deals and dealmakers over the past 12 months ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that five attorneys from the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, and from multiple practice areas, were named to the 2019 Super Lawyers list by Washington D.C. Super Lawyers Magazine. The Super Lawyers designation, conferred upon the most respected legal practitioners in a region, is based upon peer recognition and professional achievement ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is pleased to announce that Dallas-based attorneys Alison Ashmore, Jeff Fine and Chris Kratovil are listed as “Best Lawyers in Dallas,” in a special editorial feature in the May 2019 issue of D Magazine. Each year, D Magazine canvasses the local legal community asking lawyers to nominate other practitioners within their respective practice areas whom they judge to be “the best ...

Asters is delighted to announce that Eric Schultz has joined the Firm's office in Washington D.C. as Senior Policy Advisor. Mr. Schultz will provide government and public relations services to Asters and its clients, focusing especially on the U.S. Government. Ambassador Schultz is a former senior American diplomat with decades of experience in the CIS and southern Africa ...

Asters, the largest Ukrainian law firm, is expanding its international reach by setting up a new representative office in London in March 2019. This launch follows recent additions of Washington DC and Brussels offices and will foster existing ties with London-based clients, as well as develop new contacts and opportunities ...

Chambers Europe, an influential annual review of the European legal market, in its 2019 guide recognizes 20 Asters lawyers – the largest number of the renowned practitioners in a single Ukrainian law firm ...

Asters has been listed among the world’s top international arbitration law firms by the recently published Global Arbitration Review – The GAR 100 (12th Edition), one of the most authoritative global independent researches of the best law firms specializing in international arbitration. GAR 100 recommends the firm’s Co-Managing Partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy and Partners Svitlana Chepurna and Yaroslav Petrov ...

Asters is the only Ukrainian law firm included in Tier 1 ranking in all 11 practices analyzed by The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East and Africa 2019 Guide: Banking, finance and capital markets; Commercial, corporate and M&A; Competition; Dispute resolution; Employment; Energy; Intellectual property; Private client; Real estate and construction; Tax; and White-collar crime ...

Han Kun Law Offices has been recognized as a "Top 5 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Legal Advisor of the Year" in ChinaVenture's "2018 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Rankings," which were announced at the awards ceremony held on April 17, 2019 ...

Recently, the world's leading legal ratings agency Chambers & Partners published its first edition of The Global Practice Guide on Investment Funds (2019) (the "Guide"). Han Kun partner Mr. Evan Zhang Ping was invited by Chambers & Partners to author its China law and practice chapter. Han Kun was the only PRC-headquartered law firm contributor to the China law and practice chapter of this Guide. Han Kun associates Ms. Dai Xining, Ms. Zhang Moxi, Ms. Shi Ce, Ms. Wang Xuanfei, Ms ...

A team led by Fabian G. Gaffron, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised pharmaceutical company Aresus Pharma GmbH on the acquisition of the rights to the dermatological drug Veregen® and the stocks of the active pharmaceutical ingredient from Medigene AG. As part of the sale, all relevant contracts with distribution partners and external service providers will be transferred from Medigene to Aresus Pharma. The U.S. rights are held by U.S. company Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc ...

Following a complex award procedure, EvoBus GmbH has been awarded the contract for 56 and an optional additional 64 electric buses for ESWE Verkehr in Wiesbaden. EvoBus, a member of Daimler Group, will also be responsible for establishing and availability of the charging infrastructure and the depot management system. The project is the largest procurement of electric buses in Germany. For Wiesbaden, it represents one of the arguments against driving bans ...

WirtschaftsWoche recognizes Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as a top law firm and its Partner Dr. André-M. Szesny, LL.M., again as a top lawyer in Compliance. Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) asked 775 White Collar and Compliance lawyers in 118 law firms about their most renowned peers. On the basis of the resulting data, the five-member jury drew up its list of experts and included 47 law firms and 67 Compliance lawyers in the ranking ...

India Business Law Journal has researched the top international lawyers for India-related transactions and matters, resulting in an exclusive “A-List” consisting of the elite 100 India-focused legal experts around the world. The Indian industry magazine also included Dr. Martin Imhof, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek and Head of the India Desk, in this A-List. “This nomination again recognizes the work of our India Desk ...

Buenos Aires, 15 April 2019. Beccar Varela rendered legal advice to the Viola family, while Bomchil to Grupo Corporación América, on the restructuring of Bodega del Fin del Mundo (BDFM), founded by Julio Viola. They were partners as from the year 2009 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Denise M. Drake to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a senior counsel in the firm’s San Antonio office. Drake joins Dykema after more than seven years practicing in-house with Marathon Petroleum Corporation (f/k/a Tesoro/Andeavor), most recently, as Associate Managing Counsel. Prior to that, she was an Associate with Cox Smith Matthews from 2010-2012—before the firm’s combination with Dykema in 2015 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that the firm was included on the shortlist of nominees for Advisen’s Cyber Law Firm of the Year Award. The winner will be announced at Advisen’s Sixth Annual Cyber Risk Awards Gala Event taking place at Gotham Hall in New York City on Wednesday, June 19th at 6:00 p.m. The Cyber Law Firm of the Year Award recognizes a law firm that has been unparalleled in its work within the cyber insurance space in 2018 ...