Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised Danaos Corporation (“Danaos”), a leading international owner of container ships, on the comprehensive restructuring and refinancing of its US$2.2bn debt maturing 31 December 2018 with certain of its lenders including Citibank, Credit Suisse, HSH Nordbank and RBS.
Silverlake Real Estate Group GmbH acquired a portfolio of 104 residential units with a total area of some 10,000 square meters in Hagen in the Ruhr area. A team led by Düsseldorf-based partner Dr. Peter Vocke advised Silverlake on the transaction. The seller is a local private portfolio holder. The 13 multi-family houses date from 1971 to 1998 and are fully rented.
Hogan Lovells acted for Tanarra Credit Partners as lead counsel on two financing transactions that have closed this week.
The first transaction provided funding to Australian private equity firm Next Capital for the acquisition of iseek Communications, a Brisbane-based data centre business.
The second transaction provided funding to a portfolio company of another Australian private equity firm, CHAMP Ventures' Ansett Aviation Training.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has grown its leading International Arbitration Practice with the addition of a new partner, Jorge Mattamouros, a New York and Portugal qualified lawyer joining the Firm's Houston office. Mattamouros will play an important role in the Firm's international arbitration matters in the Latin America and Lusophone regions.
""Jorge has a successful track record advising on multijurisdictional, high-stakes disputes around the world,"" said Paul Friedland, White & Case's Global Head of International Arbitration.
Trial lawyer and commercial litigator Philip Bowman is joining Cooley’s New York office. He arrives from Boies Schiller Flexner, where he was a partner. Bowman played a central role in many of the firm’s most substantial litigation cases over the past decade.
Arrival of Brendan Moylan and Conrad Andersen adds top tier infrastructure capabilities to the firm’s market-leading private equity practice in Europe.
Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Brendan Moylan and Conrad Andersen will join the London office as partners in the Corporate and Finance Departments, respectively. Widely recognized as leaders in their field, Moylan and Andersen focus on advising infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and pension plans on a variety of complex domestic and international infrastructure transactions.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Scott A. Schipma as a shareholder in its Government Contracts & Projects Practice in its Washington, D.C. office. Schipma was previously a partner at Winston & Strawn, LLP and joins the office on the heels of international litigation and dispute resolution attorneys Tomás Leonard and Nicole Y. Silver.
Mayer Brown announced that Michael McElroy has joined the firm as a partner resident in its Washington DC office. Mr. McElroy will focus his practice on a range of matters related to the mortgage banking and consumer finance industries. He joins from First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage lender headquartered in McLean, Virginia, where he served as general counsel and secretary. Previously, he served as general counsel, chief compliance officer and secretary for Stonegate Mortgage Corporation, an NYSE-listed mortgage lender and servicer.
The global law firm Jones Day continues to expand in Europe's key financial centers with the arrival of Lee Federman and Ewen Scott, who will both join the Firm's Banking, Finance & Securities Practice in its London Office. The arrivals of Messrs. Federman and Scott follow that of Ben Fox, who recently joined Jones Day's Banking, Finance & Securities Practice in Amsterdam, and Dr. Michael Fischer who recently joined the Practice in Frankfurt.
Squire Patton Boggs welcomes a three-partner intellectual property and technology team that boosts the firm’s trial and litigation capabilities, particularly in the consumer electronics, wireless and software industries. Frank L. Bernstein, Vid R. Bhakar and Ronald S. Lemieux arrive from intellectual property boutique Singularity LLP as partners in the Squire Patton Boggs Palo Alto office. All three are well-known Silicon Valley veterans, and for Ron Lemieux and Vid Bhakar it is an exciting return to their roots, as both practiced at the firm earlier in their careers.