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SyCipLaw partners Emmanuel M. Lombos, Arlene M. Maneja and Franco Aristotle G. Larcina conducted a briefing regarding the Philippine Competition Act for PLDT Inc., and its subsidiary, Smart Communications, Inc. on March 24, 2017. The briefing was attended by members of PLDT’s and Smart’s marketing, sales, finance, legal, regulatory and supply chain management teams ...

Lavery is proud to announce that Ms. Anik Trudel has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the firm, effective immediately. Ms. Trudel has 30 years of experience in the professional services industry, including twenty as a lawyer in a prominent Canadian law firm and ten in public relations for major international firms. Lavery will benefit from her exceptional experience related to management issues and organizational transformation ...

The leading international rating agency Chambers and Partners has named Plesner "Denmark Law Firm of the Year 2017". Plesner is named "Denmark Law Firm of the Year" based on interviews with clients and law firms. The award is a tribute to the high quality service and legal advice consistently provided by Plesner. "We are honoured to be recognised as the leading law firm in Denmark ...

In recognition of its accomplishments and forward thinking related to diversity and inclusion, Haynes and Boone, LLP is a proud recipient of the 2017 Diversity Leadership Award from PracticePro. The award was presented at PracticePro’s Fourth Annual San Francisco Career Conference and Diversity Reception, which was attended by law students, attorneys, and corporate executives from across the country ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP congratulates Partners Purvi Patel Albers, Jeff Becker and David McCombs for their inclusion in the World Intellectual Property Review 2017 Leaders Directory (Newton Media Ltd.). World IP Review names leaders in the patent and trademark bars through a four month nomination process in which it seeks the views of 12,000 IP professionals ...

Estudio Beccar Varela advised Tarjeta Naranja S.A. on the international issuance of notes Class XXXVII, issued under the company’s Global Program for short, medium and long-term notes for a maximum nominal value of up to US$ 650 million (or its equivalent in other currencies). The notes were issued on April 11th, for nominal value of US$ 250 million. The maturity of the notes will take place on 11 April 2022, accruing interest at a floating rate (Badlar +3 ...

Pellerano & Herrera announced the creation of the P&H Alumni Circle, which will be formally launched on May 10, during an inauguration event in the auditorium of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre & Maestra ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) scores 12 Tier 1 rankings out of the 13 areas of practice researched in Romania by Legal 500 - EMEA, a benchmark publication on the international legal market. Based on these results, NNDKP is again the best positioned law firm active in Romania, with all its practice areas being acknowledged as Tier 1 ...

Han Kun Law Offices has been recognized as a "Top 5 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Legal Advisor of the Year" in Chinaventure's "2016 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Rankings," which were announced at a recently held awards ceremony ...

Han Kun advised on the Didi Chuxing - Uber China Acquisition, which has been recognized as one of “Asian-Mena Counsel's: Deals of the Year 2016”. Asian-Mena Counsel is published by the In-House Community. The In-House Community is comprised of over 21,000 individual in-house lawyers and those with a responsibility for legal and compliance issues within an organization in the Asia-Pacific and the UAE ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised DATAGROUP SE on a capital increase against cash contributions with exclusion of subscription rights. The company has generated proceeds of some EUR 21.7 million from the transaction. 759,000 new shares were placed with institutional investors as part of the capital increase. The company intends to strengthen its equity and finance further growth with the gross issue proceeds of EUR 21.7 million ...

A team led by Dr. Katharina Prasuhn from the Hamburg office advised the sellers on the sale of rental car company CARO Autovermietung ("CARO") to Enterprise Rent-A-Car Deutschland ("Enterprise"). The acquisition of CARO by Enterprise establishes one of Germany's largest car rental companies. CARO was founded by Stefan Peters in 1998 and operates in the corporate and replacement sectors. The company has more than 800 employees at 46 locations throughout Germany. Enterprise Holdings Inc ...

Carey advised Séché Environnement, one of France’s leading players in the recovery and treatment of all types of waste, in the due diligence process and further acquisition from Befesa Group's Chilean subsidiary, Soluciones Ambientales del Norte. This company specializes in processing and storing hazardous waste derived mainly from the mining industry ...

Deacons has advised Asia Grocery Distribution Limited in relation to its listing on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of share offer, seeking to raise up to HK$81.2 million (subject to the offer size adjustment option). Asia Grocery Distribution is an established food and beverage grocery distributor in Hong Kong with over 40 years of experience since its original “Hung Fat Ho” grocery store was established in the 1970s ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP helped client Endeavor Energy Resources strike a $300 million agreement with a Houston company to develop properties located within the Midland Basin in Texas. Endeavor, a Midland, Texas-based operator with expertise in the development of Wolfcamp horizontal wells, will partner with Development Capital Resources (DCR), a Houston-based oil and gas company formed by Ares Management, L.P ...

Chambers Europe, an influential annual review of the best lawyers and law firms in 53 jurisdictions across the European continent, highly recommends Asters in its 2017 edition recently published in London. The guide distinguishes the Firm's outstanding professional achievements ranking 13 Asters' lawyers which is unparalleled by any other Ukrainian law firm ...

Sheryl Toby, metro Detroit-based member of Dykema’s Business Services Department, was recently asked by the United States Department of Commerce (USDOC) to give a cross-cultural educational business presentation to a group of Pakistani business leaders through its Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) Supply Chain for Pakistan program. Toby’s presentation, titled “Introduction to Automotive Supply Chain,” was given on March 30, 2017, in Ann Arbor ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised DATAGROUP SE on a capital increase against cash contributions with exclusion of subscription rights. The company has generated proceeds of some EUR 21.7 million from the transaction. 759,000 new shares were placed with institutional investors as part of the capital increase. The company intends to strengthen its equity and finance further growth with the gross issue proceeds of EUR 21.7 million ...

Chambers Global 2017 has again ranked SyCipLaw as a Band 1 firm in Corporate & Finance and Projects, Infrastructure & Energy. SyCipLaw lawyers ranked in the publication are: - Hector M. de Leon, Jr. - Band 1 in Projects - Rocky Alejandro L. Reyes - Band 3 in Corporate & Finance, and Recognised Practitioner in Projects - Vicente D. Gerochi IV - Band 2 in Corporate & Finance - Andres G. Gatmaitan - Senior Statesman in Corporate & Finance - Mia G ...

SyCipLaw won Philippine Law Firm of the Year at the 2017 Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards held last March 24 in Singapore. Managing Partner Hector M. de Leon, Jr. represented the firm at the awards ceremony. The awards are based on the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2017 research and reflect a law firm’s pre-eminence in key countries in the region. They also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service ...

Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce that Ms. Huaying Qi has joined the firm as a partner. Ms. Qi works primarily in the firm's Beijing office. Prior to joining Han Kun, Ms. Qi worked at two leading international law firms, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (New York and Hong Kong) and Cooley LLP (San Francisco and Shanghai). With over 10 years of experience in fund formation and investment management-related practice areas, Ms ...

James Wang, Esq. of Han Kun was recently interviewed by Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ), Asia's leading private equity / venture capital journal, on the emergence of mega state guidance funds and its impact on the fundraising landscape and fund terms in China and quoted in its Spring 2017 annual feature article “Dual Currency Fundraising: Serving Two Masters” ...

James Wang, Esq. of Han Kun was recently interviewed by Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ), Asia's leading private equity / venture capital journal, on the emergence of mega state guidance funds and its impact on the fundraising landscape and fund terms in China and quoted in its Spring 2017 annual feature article “Dual Currency Fundraising: Serving Two Masters” ...

At the Chambers Europe Awards ceremony held in London on April 7, the Ellex circle of leading Baltic law firms was named Baltic-Wide Client Service Law Firm of the Year 2017. This award recognises our continued commitment to providing our clients with the highest quality of legal services on a consistent basis. We are honoured to receive this award from the Chambers and Partners team as an acknowledgement of professional excellence ...

Mobile service reseller, ASX-listed amaysim Australia Limited, has announced a binding agreement to acquire Australia's first online energy retailer Click Energy for A$120 million. The consideration will comprise A$80 million cash and A$40 million of scrip. MinterEllison acted for the lead arranger, CBA, on the syndicated facilities to fund the acquisition and to refinance amaysim's existing facilities with Optus ...