Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that William B. Sorabella has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Sorabella, formerly with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will continue his public company and private equity mergers and acquisitions practice.
Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed Peter Jones as a partner in its Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice in Sydney. Peter, who joins the firm from DLA Piper, will commence his new role in early June 2019.
Peter is currently the head of DLA Piper’s Tech Sector in Australia, is the Sydney Location Head of its Intellectual Property and Technology Group, and has regional responsibility for data protection, cyber resilience and information risks.
The London office of Gateley Plc, the legal business of law-led professional services group Gateley, has launched a Private Wealth offering in the city with the appointment of partners Richard Jordan and Mark Pearce and continues to grow its Corporate client team with the appointment of partner Oliver Harker.
Richard Jordan joins Gateley Plc from Irwin Mitchell, where he was head of the London Private Client team. Richard has over 20 years of experience in providing tailored tax and succession advice to HNW Private Clients, Families and Family Offices.
Timothy Gustafson is featured in this Law360 article discussing his recent return to Eversheds Sutherland’s Tax Practice Group as partner in the Sacramento office.
Tim said his return to Eversheds Sutherland was due to the strength of its attorneys and the potential it provides to expand his practice.
Global legal business DWF has announced the appointment of Brendan Slack as a partner in the expanding banking and finance group.
Brendan joins the business from Dentons, and he specialises in advising lenders, borrowers and private equity sponsors. His practice covers local, UK and international real estate finance (including real estate investment and development senior and mezzanine finance deals), as well as asset-backed and energy & infrastructure transactions including the financing of data centres, capacity market and smart meter assets.
Toronto—Dentons is pleased to welcome partner Henry Chang, associate Jonathan Mor and law clerk Denys Koval as the newest additions to the firm’s Canada-US Business Immigration group.
Based in Toronto, Henry, Jonathan and Denys bring significant Canadian and US business immigration law experience and will primarily focus on cross-border business immigration matters involving executives and high-net worth individuals. Henry also has a related practice in the field of cannabis law, and will also support our existing nationally-ranked Cannabis practice.
International law firm Bird & Bird has welcomed Hartmut Hörner as a partner in the commercial practice group of the Hamburg office with a sector focus on Tech & Comms, Financial Services and Life Sciences.
Hartmut joins from one of the Big4 in Switzerland where he served as General Counsel and was particularly involved as a partner in the areas of Consulting Quality & Risk Management, as well as local and international client contracting. Prior to this, Hartmut held positions at an international management consultancy and another Big4 Firm.
Top 40 law firm Trowers & Hamlins has advised existing client Apache Capital Partners on the sale of its asset for over £160m, in Shoreditch, London.
A joint venture comprising of Greystar Real Estate Partners, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) and Allianz Real Estate has contracted to buy Paul St. East, a 458-bedroom purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Shoreditch for over £160 million.
Allen & Overy has advised a syndicate of banks on the successful issue of a EUR 5 bn bond (ISIN: DE000A2LQSS1) by KfW. The syndicate comprised BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan Securities plc and TD Securities. TD Securities also acted as technical lead.
The bond with an interest rate of 0.00 per cent. and a term of three years has been admitted for trading in the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The issue met with high demand from investors both in Germany and abroad and was thus significantly oversubscribed.
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has successfully advised Grange Hotels on the sale of four of its high-end, luxury hotels: Grange St Paul's EC4, Grange Tower Bridge E1, Grange City EC3 and Grange Holborn WC1. The portfolio of properties was sold to Queensgate Investments for circa GBP 1 billion. This is one of the largest UK hotel deals on record.