Mayer Brown announced that a prominent team led by partner Kara Baysinger has joined the firm, significantly strengthening its global insurance capabilities while adding depth to the firm’s growing Corporate & Securities practice in California and New York.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Douglas Flaum has joined the firm as a partner in the Financial Institutions Industry practice in New York. A nationally recognized securities litigation and trial lawyer, Flaum has more than 30 years of experience litigating cases on behalf of domestic and foreign corporations, directors, and special board committees in a diverse range of commercial, securities, and real estate matters.
Prominent capital markets lawyer Claire Keast-Butler has joined Cooley as a partner in London. She arrives from the London office of Latham & Watkins.
Eversheds Sutherland has continued the expansion of its corporate team with new lateral Partner hire, Michael Birchall.
Michael, who will join the global legal practice from Addleshaw Goddard later this year, will assume the role of head of Eversheds Sutherland’s Manchester-based Corporate team.
Richard Moulton, Partner and Co-Head of the Global Corporate and M&A Team at Eversheds Sutherland commented:
DLA Piper announced that Mary Dunbar has joined the firm's Finance practice as a partner in Washington, DC.
DLA Piper announces that hospitality and leisure lawyer, Susan Samuel, will be joining the firm as partner in its Real Estate practice, based in Leeds.
Susan joins the firm from Eversheds Sutherland, where she has been a partner since 2012. Susan advises international retailers, corporate occupiers, institutional and private funds, as well as real estate investors. She has managed large teams of lawyers on real estate acquisitions and disposals, cross-border transactions and management and franchise agreements.
Edmonton—Dentons is pleased to announce that Mike Harris has joined the Firm as a partner in our Tax group.
Based in Edmonton, Mike’s practice focuses primarily on corporate tax planning and reorganization, as well as tax litigation, compliance and dispute resolution.
London—Dentons is pleased to announce that Bonnie Calnan is to join the London Real Estate team as a partner. Her arrival will further strengthen the practice following a period of significant growth, including the recruitment of five partners from Irwin Mitchell in 2016, the addition of Maclay Murray & Spens' real estate practice in 2017 and last year's hire of development and transactional specialist Deepa Deb, also from BCLP.
Niederer Kraft Frey advised ASSA ABLOY AB (publ), the largest global supplier of intelligent door opening solutions listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange, on the indirect acquisition of a 54% controlling interest in agta record ag. The share price per agta record share is EUR 70. The transaction value amounts to approx. EUR 933m.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised a syndicate of lenders to Petrolera Cárdenas Mora, S.A.P.I. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Egypt-based Cheiron Petroleum Corporation, on the first-ever reserve-based lending transaction in respect of upstream oil & gas assets located in Mexico. Cheiron Petroleum Corporation is a leading independent exploration and production company focused on the development of mature oil & gas fields with upside potential.