The shares represent approximately 7.78% of the enlarged share capital of China Jinmao.

Latham & Watkins has advised Chinese property developer, China Jinmao Holdings Group Limited (China Jinmao), on its placing of existing shares and top-up subscription of new shares.

Todd Kim, the first Solicitor General (SG) for the District of Columbia, will join Reed Smith LLP in its Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the firm’s appellate practice. In 11 years as the District’s SG, he led a staff of twenty that represented the District of Columbia government in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the D.C. Court of Appeals. Mr. Kim’s first day with Reed Smith will be January 31.

Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Brian Stretch, current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, will join the firm in San Francisco as a partner in its White Collar: Government Litigation & Investigations practice. Mr. Stretch will focus his practice on the full range of federal enforcement and internal investigation matters, with a particular emphasis on corporate investigations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and criminal defense matters.

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Khoa Do has joined the firm’s Corporate practice and Mergers & Acquisitions Group as a partner in its Palo Alto office. Mr. Do comes to Morrison & Foerster from Jones Day.

Mr. Do has 20 years of experience advising public and private companies on M&A transactions, including numerous cross-border deals.  He has represented a large number of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, and also has significant experience advising businesses across a broad range of industries.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that Kristina (Kris) Bieker-Brady, PhD/JD has joined as a partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice, resident in the Firm’s Boston office. Kris, a renowned intellectual property lawyer to pharma, biotech and medical device companies, will deepen and strengthen McDermott’s dynamic life sciences practice.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that leading mergers and acquisitions attorney Eric Schiele has joined the New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Schiele joins the Firm from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he was a partner in the corporate department.

Pittsburgh - The Pittsburgh office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Adam F. Kelson as a partner in its emerging growth and venture capital practice. An associate with K&L Gates from 2002-2010, Kelson returns to K&L Gates from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, where he served as chair of the technology and manufacturing practice.  

Cooley is further strengthening its global cyber, data protection and privacy team with the arrival of partners Boris Segalis and David Navetta. Segalis and Navetta are the former US co-chairs of Norton Rose Fulbright’s data protection, privacy and cybersecurity practice group. Also joining the group is special counsel Anthony Jannotta, previously a partner in Dentons’ public policy and regulation practice.

With extensive regional and international experience of a broad range of commercial disputes across various industry sectors, Paul specialises in construction and engineering law focusing on contentious work. He has advised employers, contractors, subcontractors and consultants across a range of domestic and international construction and engineering projects in litigation, arbitration and all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Paul was previously at Reed Smith LLP.

Leading law firm Blake Morgan has appointed experienced Succession and Tax Partner Arshoo Singh to its central London office.

Arshoo, who joins from Russell-Cooke LLP, has a wealth of private client experience which includes estate planning for clients based in the UK and internationally, tax, trusts and co-ownership issues arising from relationship breakdowns, administration of cross-border and contentious estates, international capacity issues and Court of Protection work.