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Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that William J. Kohler, a senior counsel in the firm’s Detroit office, has been reappointed to the East Michigan District Export Council by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Kohler was appointed to a four-year term that will expire on December 31, 2021 ...

On 31 January 2018 the Danish Eastern High Court found in favour of A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S in a trademark case against the company World Wide Traffic ApS about an infringement of A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S' seven-pointed star logo. The new decision upholds the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court's decision from 2016. Plesner conducted the case on behalf of A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S ...

Southern California's 2018 Super Lawyers, published by Thomson Reuters, has recognized three Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers: Partners Ken Parker and M.C. Sungaila and Counsel Caroline Hurtado Ford. All three are based in the firm's Orange County office. Parker, named for Intellectual Property Litigation, chairs Haynes and Boone's IP Litigation Practice Group. He handles patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets cases not only in California but in courts throughout the United States ...

The World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), a directory of the world’s leading trademark professionals, has again ranked Haynes and Boone, LLP among the top 20 trademark practices in the nation and as the preeminent large firm in Texas ...

Asters alongside with White & Case LLP (UK) acted as legal counsels to PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukrainian public railway company, in connection with restructuring of USD 500 million 9.875 per cent loan participation notes due 2021. The reprofiling included amendments to the terms of the loan agreement due to adjusting the portfolio of Ukrzaliznytsia's local indebtedness ...

With a team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at the firm's Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Accentro Real Estate AG on issuing a EUR 100 million corporate bond. Accentro intends to use the net proceeds from the issue primarily to finance the acquisition of new real estate assets in Germany. ODDO BHF SCA issued the bond with a term of three years as part of a private placement. It is Accentro's largest debt financing measure on the capital market to date ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised German investment firm Odewald KMU, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the sale of its stake in 7days group, a provider of workwear for the healthcare sector, to private equity firm Silverfleet Capital. A team led by Cologne-based partner Dr. Pär Johansson worked extensively on this transaction on behalf of Odewald KMU. Marc Staperfeld and Ulrich Dölken, founders of 7days group, will remain with the company by way of share buyback ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Allan Gabriel, Jeff Huron and Derek Whitefield, each from the firm’s Los Angeles office, were named to the 2018 Super Lawyers list by Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine. The Super Lawyers designation, conferred upon the most respected legal practitioners in the state, is based upon peer recognition and professional achievement ...

China Business Law Journal recently announced its “Deals of the Year 2017”. Four Han Kun-advised deals were recognized as “Deals of the Year 2017”. They are: ■ China Unicom's mixed-ownership reform ■ JD Finance's new round financing ■ Maoyan Media and Weiying Technology strategic partnership transactions ■ ZhongAn's Hong Kong IPO China's economy faced tough challenges but still saw strong performance ...

On January 29, 2018, Tencent, together with investors including JD.com and others, signed strategic investment agreements with Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co. in Beijing. This represents one of the world's largest single strategic investments between Internet companies and brick-and-mortar commercial giants. Han Kun, as legal counsel to Tencent and JD ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that John A. Ferroli has been appointed as the Office Managing Member of the firm’s Grand Rapids office. Ferroli, who also serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee, succeeds longtime Grand Rapids Office Managing Member James Brady ...

With a team led by Dr. Pär Johansson, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Haniel) on the acquisition of Optimar, a leading provider of automated fish processing systems. Norwegian financial investors Credo Partners and the company's management are the sellers. The current management team led by CEO Håvard Sætre will continue to run Optimar as part of Haniel group. With this acquisition, Haniel is further expanding its portfolio in an innovative business area ...

The metropolitan region of Hamburg has started planning for an express cycling network. A total of nine “corridors” will be used to create four-meter-wide cycle paths from Hamburg to Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, linking the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Lüneburg, Lübeck, Wismar, and many other surrounding municipalities and districts. The Hamburg metropolitan region hired procurement law experts Dr. Martin Schellenberg and Dr ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Finance Partner Sakina Rasheed Foster has been recognized among Dallas Business Journal's "40 Under 40" honorees for 2018. The awards "celebrate the up-and-comers and people that North Texas community should know - they're the future executives and influencers to watch in the Dallas-Fort Worth business community and beyond," DBJ says ...

A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer assisted Cloud No 7 group, a member of Schwäbische Wohnungs AG, in the sale of Cloud No 7’s hotel in Stuttgart to KanAM’s Fokus Süddeutschland fund, replacing the existing financing. Cloud No 7 is a high-rise with luxury residences, business apartments, and a hotel in Stuttgart’s Europaviertel area. The hotel will be the first Jaz Hotel that will be part of Steigenberger group. Dr. Anne de Boer and Dr ...

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018 has once again ranked SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan as a Band 1 Firm in: - Banking & Finance - Banking & Finance: Capital Markets - Corporate/M&A - Corporate/M&A: Real Estate - Dispute Resolution - Dispute Resolution: Arbitration - Employment - Intellectual Property - Projects, Infrastructure & Energy - Tax Several of the firm’s lawyers were also ranked by Chambers: - Hector M. de Leon, Jr ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that a total of 21 attorneys from the firm’s Chicago office, and from multiple practice areas, were named to the 2018 Super Lawyers list by Illinois Super Lawyers Magazine. Additionally, three of the firm’s Illinois-based attorneys were named to the 2018 Illinois Rising Stars list as well. ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Robert Nelson has been appointed to serve the firm as Co-Practice Group Leader for its Taxation group, which is focused on counselling clients in all aspects of federal, state, and local tax laws. Nelson will co-lead with Michael Cumming, who is based in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, office ...

<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Member attorneys <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/rayford_adams/details">Rayford K. "Trip" Adams III</a> and <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/jeffrey_patton/details">Jeffrey D. Patton</a> were named to the 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers list ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Jeff Gifford has been appointed to lead the firm’s Corporate Finance Practice Group, a team focused on counselling clients in all aspects of corporate finance matters. Gifford takes over for Will Liebmann, who was selected to serve on the firm’s Executive Board ...

A team comprised of members from various offices, led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, advised TimePartner Group, one of Germany's leading personnel service providers, on the acquisition of the HR services division from Weiderer Holding GmbH and accompanied the transaction. The transaction comprised all shares held by Weiderer Holding GmbH in aartos Personalservice, Weiderer Personaldienste, and opTEAMum Personaldienstleistungen ...

A team comprised of members from various offices, led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, comprehensively advised HR service provider TP Group Service GmbH on the acquisition of Mach Professionals GmbH and accompanied the transaction. The temporary employment group House of HR, which acquired TimePartner Group last year, thus continues its expansion path in Germany ...

Asters is further expanding its industry-focused expertise with the addition of Yuriy Kotliarov as a partner in charge of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice effective 24 January 2018. Furthermore, Sergiy Tsyba has joined the Firm's TMT practice as a counsel ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP is pleased to announce that President Donald Trump nominated Partner Jeremy D. Kernodle to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. "Jeremy's clients and colleagues have come to rely on his consummate litigation skills, impeccable judgment and even-keeled temperament - attributes that will allow him to be an equally fair and effective judge," said Haynes and Boone Managing Partner Tim Powers ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Butch Hulse to its Commercial Litigation Practice Group as a member in the firm’s San Antonio office. Hulse, who joins Dykema after nearly a decade serving as in-house counsel and later Chief Compliance Officer with Acelity (formerly Kinetic Concepts, Inc.), is a former Shareholder with Cox Smith Matthews, which combined with Dykema in May 2015 ...