Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Charles Haag to the firm’s Transactions Department as a partner in Dallas. Charles is a seasoned capital markets and securities attorney who joins Winston from Jones Day.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that leading private equity attorney Jennifer Perkins has joined the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group in New York.
Jen is a highly skilled attorney with an exemplary reputation in the private equity space, said Jeffrey C. Hammes, Chairman of Kirkland’s Global Management Executive Committee. Her commercial approach to sophisticated transactions makes her an ideal fit for Kirkland’s private equity practice and our New York office.
On 5 February 2018 CMS’s Warsaw office was joined by new partner Rafał Zwierz, who will be responsible for the development of the capital markets practice and will bring 17 years of transaction experience to our team. Rafał is the fourth partner in CMS Warsaw’s M&A team, which comprises nearly 30 transactional lawyers.
Hogan Lovells has hired Tom McFarlane as Head of Transfer Pricing (EMEA) for the firm's growing Transfer Pricing practice led by Fabrizio Lolliri. He joins from Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) where he was a partner and led the Transfer Pricing and Tax Efficient Supply Chain Management practice in London. Prior to joining A&M, Tom spent six years with KPMG and was one of the founders of its Tax Efficient Supply Chain Management practice.
DLA Piper announced today that C. Michael Moore and Matthew Nickel have joined the firm's Litigation practice as partners in the Dallas office.
Moore brings broad experience in unfair trade practices, state attorney general litigation, governmental fraud and qui tam litigation, consumer class actions, business torts, commercial transactions and product liability. Nickel focuses on complex litigation with an emphasis on product liability and pharmaceutical litigation.
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Japanese shipowner Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL) on the tender process to provide a pioneering Liquefied Natural Gas bunker vessel (LNGBV) on long-term charter contract to Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions. This is the first LNGBV of this scale globally at 18,600 m³ to be built in China and delivered in 2020. The vessel will operate in Northern Europe and will be the first ever LNGBV capable of supplying large quantities of LNG in one single bunkering operation.
Clifford Chance and Yegin Ciftci* advised CCN Yatirim Holding, as the sponsor in the implementation and financing of the Turkish Public Health Agency and the Turkish Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency Campus PPP Project in Ankara, Turkey. Signing of the main finance documents took place on 28 December 2017, with the CCN Yatirim Holding subsidiary signing the finance documents as borrower.
Dentons' Real Estate team in Warsaw has advised Cromwell Property Group on the sale of the Warsaw Corporate Center office building to Raiffeisen Immobilien Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft.
Developed in 1997, the Warsaw Corporate Center is a prominent, nine-storey office building offering over 8,600 sq.m. of leasable space. It is conveniently located in Warsaw major communication hub, in the immediate vicinity of Warsaw Central Railway Station and Centrum metro station.
A cross-border team from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is advising US-based medtech giant Varian Medical Systems, Inc. on its proposed AU$1.58 billion acquisition of all of the issued share capital of ASX-listed life sciences company Sirtex Medical Limited, currently the largest takeover deal announced in Australia for 2018.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised TalkTalk Telecom Group plc on its successful £200 million cashbox placing to strengthen its balance sheet, support its continued customer growth and its investment in its long-term fibre plans announced today (8 February).
The Osborne Clarke transaction team worked alongside TalkTalk’s General Counsel, Tim Morris, and Head of Legal, Nadia Hoosen.