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In its November 2017 cover story on the 2017 Asia Top 50, ALB lists SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan as the largest law firm in the Philippines. ALB's Asia Top 50 is an annual list of Asia's largest law firms by headcount. Read the rest of the article at the SyCipLaw website: http://syciplaw.com/news/articles/fa/272#.WidIddKWbIU ...

Haynes and Boone was recognized across the board for client service in the BTI Consulting Group's Client Service A-Team ranking for 2018. The firm was named to BTI's "Client Service Honor Roll" in all 17 of the 17 activities that clients consider the drivers of superior client relationships. This was the 15th straight year for Haynes and Boone to be listed in the "Client Service A-Team" ranking and the first time the firm was highlighted in all categories measured ...

AELEX Arbitration Practice Group is delighted to have been awarded the exclusive right to provide updates on Nigeria for the International Law Office (ILO) Arbitration & ADR Newsletters. ILO delivers expert legal commentary, in the form of concise weekly newsletter emails to senior corporate counsel and law firm partners worldwide. The ILO newsletters have been providing tailored, quality-assured updates on global legal developments to more than 50,000 registered subscribers since 1998 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Richard L. Lieberman to its Taxation Practice Group as senior counsel in the firm’s Chicago office. Lieberman joins Dykema after spending more than eight years as a partner with Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., where he served as Chair of the firm’s Tax and Employee Benefits practice. Prior to that, he was a principal at Deloitte Tax LLP for more than a decade ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised leading software component provider ComponentSource Limited on its move to new premises in Reading. ComponentSource will take up a new 10 year lease from 1 January 2018 at the innovative office development, The White Building, Reading. Established in 1995, ComponentSource is the world’s largest B2B pure play distributor, reseller and marketer of developer tools and software components for application developers ...

Hungary's OTP Bank bought Vojvođanska Banka, as well as NGB Leasing and the National Bank of Greece's corporate loan portfolio in Serbia. This is one of the biggest recent banking transactions in the region and it was closed on Friday, the 1st of December in Belgrade. Karanović & Nikolić advised the buyer – OTP Bank, one of the leading banks in Central and Eastern Europe, throughout all of the stages of the acquisition process ...

National law firm Shoosmiths is celebrating after being named 'Asset Finance Legal Provider of the Year' at the European Leasing Life Awards last night. Representatives from Shoosmiths' asset finance team included partner and national head of asset finance, Melanie Chell and asset finance partners Stephen Dawson and Roger Potgieter who flew to Amsterdam, to attend the annual conference and to collect the accolade at the following awards ceremony, held at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky ...

Pellerano & Herrera and The Legal 500, internationally recognized British publisher, hosted in Santo Domingo the third reception for corporate counsels and legal teams of renowned Dominican companies ...

The Diversity Law Institute, a nonprofit international association committed to inclusion in the legal professional and justice systems in the United States and Canada, honored Haynes and Boone, LLP for the firm's "excellence, involvement and efforts" to further diversity within the legal profession. The award was presented at the 2017 Diversity Law Institute Summit & Awards in Philadelphia Nov. 3 ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers secured a summary judgment of noninfringement for client BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC in an Eastern District of Texas patent-infringement case. Effective Exploration LLC claimed that natural gas wells BlueStone operates in the Barnett Shale infringed a patent for a system of drilling multiple wells from a single drilling pad ...

Karanović & Nikolić hosted the "Empowering Students to Enter the Workplace" HR conference, held on the 30th of November in Belgrade, Serbia. The event was organised in cooperation with Stanton Chase, one of the top 10 global retained executive search firms, and the guests and panellists included leading professionals in the field of human resources, as well as employment law experts ...

On November 29, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, the world's renowned legal media publisher, released its 2018 rankings of PRC law firms. Han Kun Law Offices was recognized as a "Tier 1 Private Equity/Venture Capital Firm" and a "Tier 1 TMT Firm.” Han Kun was also recommended for seven practice areas, four lawyers are named on the elite "Leading Lawyers" list and three lawyers are named on the "Next generation lawyers" list. 16 other Han Kun lawyers are included on the recommended lawyer list ...

Shoosmiths Leeds marked its 12 month anniversary on 1 December, with a full complement of disciplines in place, having opened its office back in 2016 with fewer than 10 people on board. Since launch, the office has pursued a carefully-planned growth strategy, attracting some of the region’s leading legal talent from a raft of competitor law firms ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Stuttgart office continues to expand. Coming from Menold Bezler, Dr. Andreas Schabenberger will work as equity partner at the Stuttgart office effective January 1, 2018. He will be joined by Senior Associate Monika Küppers and Associate Felix Drefs. Schabenberger (54) has been working in intellectual property law for more than 23 years ...

Shoosmiths transport and infrastructure corporate partner Martin Fleetwood analyses the details in today’s rail strategy announcement by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling. He says: “Arguably this strategic vision links all five foundations in the Industrial Strategy – ideas, people, infrastructure, business environment and place – and is a good starting point to ensure that there is a good transport network in place to support UK growth ...

A team led by Munich-based M&A partner Boris Dürr advised Celenus SE, a subsidiary of publicly listed Orpea S.A., on the acquisition of a majority stake in Inoges group. The company's founder Wolfgang K. Hoever will stay on after Orpea's entry as a new majority shareholder and continue to advance the company’s expansion. Inoges group is a leader in outpatient rehabilitation in Germany and also operates two inpatient rehabilitation facilities ...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, 28 November 2017 — O’Neal Webster is pleased to report that the Eastern Caribbean Court has adopted new, comprehensive, non-contentious probate rules for the British Virgin Islands. The new rules, which came into force on 1 November 2017, replace decades-old rules that did not keep pace with the BVI’s growing reputation as a major financial centre and address important provisions which were absent ...

Karanović & Nikolić, together with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, hosted the Competition and Competitiveness conference on the 28th of November, 2017, at the Metropol Palace hotel, Belgrade. The conference represents a traditional yearly gathering of experts from the business and legal community, as well as key regulators and stakeholders, to discuss the most important issues and practical implications in field of competition law ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Jamie A. Zaniewski, Government Policy Advisor in the firm’s Lansing office, was appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to serve on the newly created Public Health Advisory Council (PHAC). Zaniewski’s term will expire November 1, 2018. The PHAC was created to ensure the efficiency and accountability of the state’s public health system ...

The Uniform Law Commission has selected Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Laura Prather to play a key role in the drafting of a uniform Anti-SLAPP Act. Established in 1892, the Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well-drafted legislation in many critical areas of law. The Commission helps states keep up to date on timely legal issues and helps ensure a consistent regulatory structure from state to state ...

With a team led by Dr. Vinzenz Bödeker and Christian Staps, both based in Frankfurt, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Finnish Pyroll Group on the acquisition of Stora Enso Baienfurt GmbH, a cutting center for the paper industry. With the acquisition of Stora Enso Baienfurt, Pyroll intends to further expand its activities on the German market. Pyroll Group is a leading Nordic family-owned paper, board, and plastics processing company ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Capnamic Ventures on its investment in start-up company ZAGENO, an online marketplace for life science research products. ZAGENO connects scientists, research institutes, and biotech manufacturers, enabling scientists to select the most important products for their labs from a high-quality portfolio. ZAGENO is headquartered in Boston/USA, but also operates in Germany via a subsidiary for ZAGENO Group from Berlin ...

State Secretary Bomba of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and State Secretary Samson of the Hessian Ministry of Transport presented ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH General Managers Zemlin and Gäfgen with the coveted prize for sustainable urban mobility in metropolitan areas on November 21, 2017 at the Hypermotion trade show. Wiesbaden's vision convinced the jury ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP has again been awarded the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program's (DVAP) Gold Award for Pro Bono Service for law firms with more than 150 lawyers. The firm was honored for the third consecutive year for its outstanding pro bono services in the Dallas community. "We are immensely proud to receive this recognition, as it underscores the firm's commitment to provide legal aid to those who would not otherwise have access to our U.S ...

Ferguson plc, a world-leading plumbing and heating supplier, has agreed to sell building materials chain STARK to a US private equity firm in a deal worth around DKK 7.7bn. Plesner assisted Ferguson with the transaction. STARK GROUP, the largest building materials chain in the Nordic countries, was sold to US private equity firm Lone Star. Ferguson plc received around DKK 7 ...