Gilbert + Tobin today announced it is advising TSX/NASDAQ-listed The Stars Group Inc. on its acquisition of 80 percent of CrownBet and on CrownBet’s successful bid to acquire William Hill Australia.
International tax and estate planning heavyweight Lucy S. Lee has joined the robust Tax Practice at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder. She joins from Akin Gump where she was a partner. Lee focuses her practice on international tax and estate planning for clients and high-net-worth individuals and families.
King & Spalding today announced that securities litigator Lisa Bugni has joined the Trial and Global Disputes practice as a partner in the Atlanta office and will relocate to the firm’s San Francisco office in May 2018. Bugni joins her former colleague Jessica Corley who started at the firm last month.
Macfarlanes is delighted to announce the appointment of the following as partners in the firm this May:
Dentons’ investment into key Western European markets continues to gain momentum with the recruitment of Pascal Schmitz in France building on the recent hire of Carlo Merisio in Italy.
Global law firm Dentons has further boosted its Europe Real Estate practice with the addition of partner Pascal Schmitz and his associates, Peter Schäfer and Alexandre d’Avout d’Auerstaedt in Paris. The team joins from King & Spalding, where Schmitz led the Real Estate and Private Equity team in France. Prior to that he was a partner for 10 years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
DLA Piper is continuing to expand its leading international Tax practice with the hire of Dimitar Hristov, who will be leading the tax group in Austria.
International law firm Bird & Bird appoints two new partners in Paris, expanding its Aviation, Space & Defence and Corporate capabilities.
The appointments form part of the firm's growth strategy in France which has seen a number of senior appointments in Paris in the past two years including the addition of Eric Charvillat to its Banking and Finance group and Emmanuelle Porte to its Corporate practice.
International law firm Bird & Bird boosts its Intellectual Property practice with the appointment of Mariano Santos as a partner in Madrid. He joins Bird & Bird's leading Spanish Intellectual Property practice, which is ranked ""Band 1"" in Chambers Europe 2017.
French company Echosens is continuing its series of victories in the field of liver diagnostic devices. With its March 1, 2018 ruling, Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court confirmed that Chinese company Hisky Medical Technologies Co. Ltd. is not allowed to offer or market its “Fibrotouch FT-1000" product in Germany, thus upholding Düsseldorf Regional Court's April 20, 2017 judgment. Echosens was represented in the trial by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, in collaboration with a large international team.
We advised BBAM\FLY Leasing on the acquisition of up to 132 A320neos from Air Asia and its leasing subsidiary Asia Aviation Capital (AAC).
This is a three-phase deal which will see FLY, together with parent BBAM’s other capital partners, Nomura Babcock & Brown and Incline Aviation, acquire 132 aircraft in total from AirAsia and AAC. The deal will also give FLY the option to acquire 50 A320neo family aircraft in the future. AirAsia will also make a $50 million investment in Incline Aviation.