DLA Piper has advised Accel-KKR and its portfolio company, Seequent Limited (“Seequent”), in connection with Seequent’s acquisition of Geosoft, a Canadian-based software company.
Global law firm Reed Smith has announced the addition of Elle Todd in London. Previously a partner and Head of Digital and Data at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Elle has worked for the largest corporations and household names as well as technology start-ups and entrepreneurs.
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International law firm Withers welcomes a significant new team of corporate, income tax and estate planning attorneys to its US practice, which is a specific focus of strategic growth in 2019. Partners Charles Kolstad and S. Eva Wolf and associate Kim Jackson join the firm in Los Angeles from Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP.
Elizabeth “Heidi” G. Bloch, a prominent Texas appellate lawyer, has joined the Austin office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder. The addition of Bloch to the firm further extends the depth and experience of Greenberg Traurig’s Texas Appellate Practice while also strengthening the firm’s already robust foothold of more than 125 attorneys in Texas.
Bloch will focus her practice on appellate matters in the areas of general commercial litigation, construction litigation, and energy and natural resources disputes, in addition to alternative dispute resolution.
Ari Berman, a seasoned commercial litigator with a significant focus on the financial services and life sciences industries, has joined Pillsbury’s rapidly growing New York office as partner. He comes to the firm from Vinson & Elkins LLP.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition in Hong Kong of four private equity partners, including leading private equity lawyer Daniel Yeh.
Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Angela B. Styles has joined the firm as a partner in its government contracts practice. With a practice spanning nearly 25 years, Ms. Styles is among the most prominent government contracts lawyers in the United States.
Ms. Styles joins a government contracts group at Akin Gump that is ranked among the leading practices in the U.S. by Chambers & Partners, which notes the team’s robust bench of talent with “deep experience in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings.”
Baker McKenzie has advised Taubman Centers Inc., an S&P MidCap 400 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) that invests in shopping centers, on its sale of 50 percent of Taubman Asia’s interests in three Asia-based shopping centers to funds managed by The Blackstone Group L.P. (Blackstone). Taubman will remain the partner responsible for the joint management of the three shopping centers located in Hanam, South Korea; Xi'an, China; and Zhengzhou, China. The transaction is valued at USD 480 million.
Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow recently acted as the lead counsel and English counsel to the mandated lead arrangers — MUFG, Rabobank, ANZ, Barclays, DBS, First Abu Dhabi Bank, JP Morgan and Societe Generale — and to more than 20 primary syndicate lenders on a USD 3 billion syndicated acquisition financing facility to UPL Corporation Limited for the acquisition of Arysta LifeScience Inc. from Platform Specialty Products Corporation. This deal is the largest outbound M&A by an Indian company since the 2008 global financial crisis.
International law firm Ashurst has advised Kina Petroleum Limited on its proposed re-domiciliation from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to the British Virgin Islands, the first of its kind under a new PNG Capital Markets Act.