Orrick has announced that Geoff Willard has joined the firm’s Technology Companies Group as a partner in Washington, D.C. With Geoff’s addition, we have added over a dozen partners to our global Technology Companies team since 2016. He joins Orrick from Cooley.
Sarang (Sy) Damle brings extensive government experience in copyright law to the firm’s renowned Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Sarang (Sy) Damle will join the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in September. His practice will focus on high-stakes copyright litigation, rate-setting, and regulatory matters, including disputes involving music, software, information technology, and the internet. Damle expects to practice in the Washington, D.C. office.
DLA Piper has announced that Matthew Gruenberg has joined the firm's Franchise and Distribution practice as a partner in Los Angeles.
Gruenberg focuses his practice on a range of transactional and regulatory matters, including M&A, private equity and real estate transactions. His franchise clients range from startups to mature public companies in various industries including entertainment, financial services, food services, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate, restaurant, sports, technology and textiles.
DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Philippe Hinnekens is joining the firm as a partner in its Tax practice, based in Brussels. This is the sixth partner hire for the firm's Tax group in the last five months.
International law firm Ashurst announces it is strengthening its Australian projects capability with the appointment of partners Alex Guy and Dan Brown to the firm's Brisbane office.
Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised Swire Properties Limited on the annual update of the US$4 billion Medium Term Note Programme of Swire Properties MTN Financing Limited, its wholly-owned subsidiary (the Programme).
Notes issued under the Programme are guaranteed by Swire Properties Limited and may be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Contacts
Capital markets: Lisa Chung (partner), Stephanie Pun (associate), Suet Wa Wong (associate), Conrad Cheung (trainee)
Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Bowmark Capital (Bowmark), a mid-market private equity firm, on the buy-out of Lawyers on Demand (LOD) from, among others, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
LOD, the fast-growing alternative legal services provider, was launched in 2007. Following its 2016 merger with AdventBalance in Asia and Australia, LOD has ten offices, more than 650 lawyers and consultants, and over 500 corporate and law firm clients.
Travers Smith LLP has acted for Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited in its capacity as financial adviser and placing agent on the £50m ZDP share placing, offer for subscription and placing programme by NB Private Equity Partners Limited (the "Fund").
Admission to the Official List occurred at 8am today.
The Travers Smith team was led by Investment Funds Partner Will Normand and also included Investment Funds Senior Associate, Leigh Stockey.
Will Normand, Investment Funds Partner commented:
Freeths has recently advised the management team on the £22.5m management buyout (MBO) of Birmingham based Precision Micro Limited from global aerospace, defence and energy group Meggitt PLC.
LDC invested £13m of equity for a significant stake in the company, supporting a management team led by current Managing Director Ian McMurray.
Joint acquisition alongside ICG is UK’s largest ever private equity-led software buyout
Latest of a string of deals for Hg which have included an investment in Access Group and sale of Allocate Software