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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in favor of Dykema pro bono client Ehlena Fry in her lawsuit against the Napoleon, Michigan Community Schools. In ruling that Fry, a 13-year-old with cerebral palsy, may sue for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) without first exhausting administrative proceedings, the Court removes significant and time-consuming legal hurdles for disabled children who are victims of discrimination in their education systems ...

Delphi has advised Stiftelsen Industrifonden and the British venture capital fund Balderton Capital in connection with their investments in Soundtrack Your Brand. The total investment round amounts to 22 million US-dollars. The financing round also saw participation from several current shareholders including Telia Company, Northzone, Creandum, H&M’s family vehicle HMP and Jörg Mohaupt ...

Dykema announced today that Eduardo “Eddy” Espinosa, Dallas-based member of the firm’s Business Services Department, was elected to the Board of Directors for the Dallas Hispanic Law Foundation. He is serving a two-year term that concludes on December 31, 2018. The Dallas Hispanic Law Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to the advancement of Hispanics in the legal profession ...

The Finnish M&A market was busy in 2016, and the Krogerus M&A practice has further strengthened its position as a leading practice in Finland. For several years, the practice has been one of the most active in the field, and based on league tables published by Mergermarket, Krogerus ranked once again among the top legal advisors measured in volume of M&A deals announced in Finland in 2016 ...

Two of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan’s transactions in 2016 are shortlisted in the IFLR Asia Awards 2017. Shortlisted for debt & equity-linked deal of the year is the issuance by AP Renewables of a landmark climate bond (“Tiwi MakBan project bond”), where SyCipLaw acted as borrower’s counsel for AP Renewables, Incorporated (APRI), a unit of Philippine energy company Aboitiz Power ...

Business magazine Wirtschaftswoche recognized Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as one of the top law firms in labor law and Frankfurt-based partner Bernd Weller individually as a top labor lawyer. The Wirtschaftswoche ranking of the top law firms assists companies in finding the right advisor for their requirements. The ranking was carried out by Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) ...

We are delighted that a deal in which ENSafrica was the lead South African legal advisor won the prestigious 2016 Deal of the Year at the recent DealMakers Gala Awards, one of the top awards on the African continent. The firm was also again recognised as a leading corporate legal advisor in terms of both transaction value and transaction flow, for both M&A and General Corporate Finance in South Africa ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP advised client Benefit Street Partners L.L.C. in a joint venture with California Resources Corporation (CRC) to invest in CRC’s oil and gas properties in California. The joint venture calls for Benefit Street Partners to invest up to $250 million for development opportunities in both conventional and unconventional assets of CRC in California ...

A team led by capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Cologne office and tax law expert Klaus Weinand-Härer from the firm's Frankfurt office, advised bedding manufacturer Gebr. Sanders GmbH & Co. KG, Bramsche, as part of a bond restructuring. The team led by Sickinger and Weinand-Härer advised Sanders on the intended bond restructuring in corporate law, capital market law, and tax law ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Sandra Cotter, Director of the Firm’s Regulated Industries Department and Leader of its Government Policy & Practice group, was elected to the Michigan Chamber Foundation Board of Directors ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised IM Land on securing a successful planning appeal for a major residential and mixed-use scheme, the first to be approved since the publishing of the government's housing white paper. Plans to build 750 new homes at Curborough, near Lichfield, have been approved by Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid ...

A Federal Court of Justice decision of January 10, 2017 (Case VIII ZR 33/16) led to a judgment of Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court of January 21, 2016 (15 U 181/12) becoming final. The ruling had dismissed the claims for damages filed by deu B.u.S. Verkehrsbetriebe für Personenbeförderung AG as buyer of a company. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek had successfully represented the seller Gerhard Nau against the buyer ...

Dykema announced today that Jeana R. Long, McAllen-based attorney in the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice group, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley. Founded in 1983, the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley is a champion to those organizations who focus on making food accessible to the Rio Grande Valley, including Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron Counties ...

Led by capital market law expert Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised PANTALEON Entertainment AG on a cash capital increase. In exclusion of shareholders' subscription rights, the company’s share capital was increased by issuing 55,000 new shares against cash contributions, placed with selected institutional investors. PANTALEON Entertainment AG is one of Europe’s fastest growing media companies ...

ENSafrica is pleased to announce that top banking and finance lawyer Rachel Musoke will be joining ENSafrica in Kampala, Uganda. This follows on the footsteps of Phillip Karugaba’s decision to join ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, which has over 600 practitioners on the continent. Karugaba, who joined the firm in mid-December, is widely recognised, having received tier 1 ratings from top rankings agencies ...

Delphi has been legal advisor to NIBE Industrier AB (publ) in connection with its acquisition of 50% of the shares in the Canadian heat pump company CGC Group of Companies Inc., with an option to acquire the remaining 50% of the shares no later than spring 2022. CGC was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Mississauga, just outside Toronto, with its manufacturing facility in the nearby town of Fergus ...

QIL+4 Abogados in Guatemala acted as local counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as underwriters and initial purchasers on the US$500,000,000.00 5.75% debt international notes offering by The Central America Bottling Corporation (CBC), a beverage producer and distributor with operations in Central America, the Caribbean and South America headquartered in Guatemala. Other financial institutions involved included Scotiabank and The Bank of New York Mellon ...

Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP has significantly expanded its London office with the addition of three partners, who will bolster the firm’s finance, shipping, and energy practices. Emma Russell and Zoë Connor join the firm as London partners in the Finance Practice Group, where they will represent banks, investment funds and other clients on a range of finance transactions, including arranging capital commitment/subscription financings and other fund financings ...

A team led by Hamburg-based partner Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack advised family-owned company DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (DMB), Kiel, on the acquisition of all shares in DBW Advanced Fiber Technologies Group (DBW) from Süd-Kapitalbeteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH. Süd-Kapitalbeteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Süd Beteiligungen GmbH (SüdBG), which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg ...

Advokatfirman Delphi has been legal advisor to Amasten in Amasten’s acquisition of two real properties in Finspång with an underlying real estate value of SEK 177,5 million. The real properties consists of 16 351 square metres and the areas for lease include 215 apartments and a few commercial properties. Delphi’s team was led by partner Nina Persson, assisted by Katarina Häggqvist, Andréa Rylander and Rebin Ahmad. Contact: Nina Persson Partner/Advokat Delphi Ph ...

Delphi has assisted NIBE Industrier AB in the merger filing and the subsequent Phase II investigation as regards the acquisition of the main parts of British-owned Enertech Group, which resulted in that the Swedish Competition Authority on 27 January 2017 decided to clear the concentration since the investigation showed that the merger did not significantly impede effective competition in the market for heating systems ...

Agnes Hammarstrand and Agne Lindberg have been awarded the Client Choice Awards 2017 within IT law. Client Choice is an international survey conducted by the International Law Office and Lexology. The award is given to lawyers around the world who distinguish themselves through their extraordinary ability to add value to the client's business and it is legal counsels who have nominated and ranked lawyers around the world. Read more about Client Choice's survey here ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Autumn Highsmith was the exclusive winner of the 2017 International Law Office (ILO) and Lexology Client Choice Award for insolvency and restructuring lawyers in Texas. Established in 2005, the award recognizes law firms and partners around the world that provide excellent client care and add real value to their clients' businesses, above and beyond the other players in the market ...

Following a long stint working on electric power matters in the public sector, Jennifer Littlefield has joined the Austin office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a member of the firm’s Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group. Littlefield worked most recently for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) on projects and issues impacting all segments of the electric industry ...

National law firm Shoosmiths was ‘highly commended’ in the legal or regulatory adviser category of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) Awards. Presented at the House of Lords, the awards celebrate excellence in a number of related fields with firms, advisers, individuals and journalists being recognised for their outstanding performance in the context of EIS/SEIS schemes during 2016 ...