Press Releases
Photonics Systems Holding GmbH acquires EPP Electronic Production Partners Stuttgart-based Partner Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised Photonics Systems Holding GmbH with a team on the acquisition of EPP Electronic Production Partners GmbH. The acquisition strengthens Photonics Systems Group’s activities in the electronics sector and creates the conditions for continued growth... |
LEG Sells Residential Portfolio to Coreo with Heuking A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised LEG on the sale of a portfolio of 272 apartments and a commercial unit in the cities of Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Gelsenkirchen, and Lünen. The total rental space is 19,800 square meters. The buyer is Coreo. The residential portfolio is almost fully rented out... |
Morgan & Morgan Participated in The International Maritime Law Seminar 2019 Luis G. Raven, partner in the Shipping and Admiralty Litigation Department of Morgan & Morgan, participated in The International Maritime Law Seminar (IMLS), an annual event that takes place in the City of London and seeks to provide in-depth analysis and discussion of current legal topics critical to the marine industry... |
Expansion of Chinese Business: Duisburger Hafen AG and its International Partners Develop the Largest Container Terminal in the European Inland Duisburger Hafen AG, together with its international partners COSCO SHIPPING Group, Hupac SA and HTS Group, is developing the largest container terminal in the European hinterland on the site of the Port of Duisburg, thereby expanding the port into the central European anchor point of the New Silk Road... |
Beccar Varela and Allende & Brea Advise on a Loan Granted to Grupo Gerdau Worth US$800 Million. Buenos Aires, 30 October 2019. Beccar Varela and Allende & Brea rendered advice on a loan agreement for a total amount of up to US$800.000.000 granted to Grupo Gerdau. The loan was granted by Bank of America N.A., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., New York Branch, BNP Paribas, Citibank N.A., HSBC Bank USA, National Association, JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., Mizuho Bank, Ltd... |
SeniVita Issues Two Corporate Bonds at a Total Nominal Value of EUR 30 Million A team led by Cologne-based Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised SeniVita Social Estate AG on issuing two new SME bonds totaling up to EUR 30 million. SeniVita intends to use the proceeds from the issue to refinance the 6.5 percent 2015/20 convertible bond of EUR 45 million due in May 2020 and to finance its current business activities... |
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Advises Management Buyout at NOBILIS GROUP With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher from the Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised management on the acquisition of NOBILIS Group GmbH, one of Germany’s most renowned companies for high-quality fragrance and perfume brands... |
Leading Speech Recognition Technology Company Eyes Global Expansion Following a Series A Investment Round. Shoosmiths’ corporate team has advised speech recognition technology expert, Speechmatics, on a £6.35 million Series A funding round, which will be used to grow the firm globally... |
New Law on Tax Amnesty in Panama: Corporations and Private Interest Foundations The Panamanian government has issued Law 99 of October 11, 2019, which establishes a General Tax Amnesty Law (“Amnesty”) that includes the elimination, for a limited period, of the penalties and surcharges caused by non-payment of the obligations with the National Treasury for corporations and private interest foundations... |
Shoosmiths Recognised in Top Tier Rankings in The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Shoosmiths CEO Simon Boss says a commitment to clients, a cutting edge approach and delivering collaborative solutions are key to the firm’s results in this year’s leading legal directories results. In The Legal 500, Shoosmiths has been recommended as a top tier firm across an impressive 25 practice areas with 29 practice areas moving up a tier... |
HMP Acquires Provascular GmbH and Announces Establishment of HMP Europe A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised HMP, a leading provider of healthcare events and education, on the acquisition of Provascular GmbH. The company announced the establishment of HMP Europe to better leverage growth opportunities on the European market... |
Advice from Women Leaders of Verrill The Massachusetts Brewers Guild continues to take steps to create gender equality within its community and since Verrill has similar initiatives, MBG decided to highlight some of our women in leadership in its article, "Pint of Change: Women Tap Into Leadership Roles In Male Dominated Industries... |
mwb fairtrade Wertpapierhandelsbank AG Accompanies Third Bond Issue of Real Estate Company Euroboden GmbH
The team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and Madeleine Zipperle from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office accompanied mwb fairtrade Wertpapierhandelsbank AG on issuing Euroboden GmbH’s “Euroboden III Bond.” The placement of EUR 40 million was terminated prematurely due to oversubscription after three days... |
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Advises Management Buy-In at EBG compleo GmbH With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher from its Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Fontus Invest GmbH and part of its management on the acquisition of an equity interest in EBG compleo GmbH. EBG compleo GmbH is a leading provider of charging stations for electric vehicles... |
M&A Expert Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg and Team are Joining Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek from Görg Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg, LL.M. (54) and Dr. Alexander Jüngst (37) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office as Equity Partners. Moving from Görg to Heuking, they will be accompanied by Associates Dr. Kerstin Goeck and Maximilian Spitzhorn-Storck... |
Verrill Welcomes Litigator Travis Waller (October 15, 2019) – Verrill is pleased to welcome attorney Travis Waller to the firm’s Westport office. Waller has experience in a wide range of complex commercial disputes in addition to construction litigation... |
WSG Winners: International Tax Review - Americas Tax Awards 2019 World Services Group is honored to spotlight the WSG member winners and nominees of the International Tax Review - Americas Tax Awards 2019... |
Springboard Advise on the Sale of Parking Facilities to Hill & Smith Holdings PLC
Springboard Corporate Finance is pleased to announce that it has advised on the sale of Parking Facilities Limited to Hill & Smith Holdings PLC. Based in Tamworth, Parking Facilities specialises in the design, manufacture and supply of a market-leading range of parking and access control products... |
Dinsmore Health Care Group Earns ABA Top-10 Ranking in Midwest Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has once again been named a top-10 health care firm in the American Bar Association’s Annual Regional Law Firm Recognition List. This year, Dinsmore ranked No. 7 in the Midwest region based on section lawyer membership... |
Dinsmore Moves to New Chicago Office Following 5 Years of Exponential Growth Due to its quick expansion and plans for continued growth, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Chicago branch has moved into its new office at 222 W Adams St., on the top floor of the Franklin Center’s USG Tower... |
Shepherd and Wedderburn Launches Smarter Working Innovation Unit Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has launched a Smarter Working innovation unit to further enhance its service to clients... |
Jim Dimitrijevs Named to World Trademark Review Best of the Best List Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is proud to announce Cleveland Office Managing Partner James Dimitrijevs has been named to World Trademark Review’s Best of the Best list. WTR Global Leaders is a new publication that aggregates the world’s foremost legal and corporate trademark professionals... |
Dinsmore Partner Laura Holoubek Named President-Elect of Equestrian Events, Inc. Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Partner Laura Holoubek has been named president-elect of Equestrian Events, Inc., a Kentucky-based non-profit that organizes and hosts some of the nation’s most prestigious equestrian sporting events... |
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Advises on Restructuring of Bader Group Internationally operating Bader group, with some 1,000 employees throughout Europe, is preparing for the future and will undertake restructuring steps by the end of the year. As part of the restructuring, affiliated company Bader GmbH at its Senden site closes in particular the “machine cladding” partial production area. Dr. Lothar Ende and Dr... |
Dawson Joins Dinsmore to Create Columbus’ Largest Law Firm for Workers’ Comp Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce that Dawson & Associates LLC, a leading workers’ compensation boutique firm in Columbus, has joined Dinsmore here in the capital city. With the move, Dinsmore’s local office is doubling its workers’ compensation group up to eight attorneys, making it the largest in Columbus for employment defense among the firms listed in U.S... |
Consortium has been Recognized for its Leading Role in Central America by International Tax Review We are proud to announce that our regional tax team has been recognized as "Best Firm in Central America" by International Tax Review. The recognition was conferred during ITR Awards Ceremony held the night of Thursday September 19th, 2019. During the ceremony, it was stated that “the winner for “Tax Firm of the year” wins for its strength in delivery for clients across all region”... |
Louisville Native Chase Cunningham Joins Dinsmore & Shohl Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed associate Chase Cunningham to the firm’s Louisville office. He will practice with both the immigration and labor and employment groups. Cunningham is a 2018 graduate of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Before joining Dinsmore, he worked as a judicial term clerk for United States Magistrate Judge Colin H... |
Forbes Names Dinsmore among 29 Best Labor & Employment Firms in America Forbes has named Dinsmore & Shohl LLP among the nation’s best law firms for labor and employment practice in its inaugural America’s Top Corporate Law Firms list . Of the more than 400,000 law firms across the country, 243 made the list, and a mere 29 were recognized for their labor and employment work... |
COP 25: The U.N. Climate Change Conference was Officially Launched On September 9th, an inaugural event launched the construction of the complex that will receive delegates from 196 nations and U.N. members who will participate in the Conference of the Parties number 25 (COP 25) of the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). The conference is organized in response to climate change, and will take place in Chile this December... |
Haynes and Boone Releases Fall 2019 Energy Roundup and Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey Haynes and Boone, LLP today released its Fall 2019 Energy Roundup, a comprehensive report on the state of the energy industry, as well as updates to several other key New Management at Delphi in Stockholm Delphi has appointed Stefan Erhag as Managing Partner and Frida Rydin as Deputy Managing Director for the office in Stockholm. Delphi has appointed Stefan Erhag as the new managing partner for the operations in Stockholm, effective as of October 1. Stefan has worked at Delphi since 2003 and was managing partner between 2008 and 2016... |
Pipeline Expansion, Safety Focus of October 3rd Natural Gas Conference Keynote Speakers Include Maine Public Utilities Commission Chair Philip L. Bartlett and University of Maine’s David Dvorak (October 1, 2019) – Verrill and Pierce Atwood will host the seventh annual full-day Maine Natural Gas Conference on Thursday, October 3 at The Woodlands Club in Falmouth, Maine... |
Verrill Trial Lawyers Again Ranked Among the Nation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation (September 30, 2019) –Verrill attorneys Martha C. Gaythwaite and Karen Frink Wolf were once again named two of the nation’s “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation... |
Verrill Welcomes Employment Law Attorney Scott Connolly (September 30, 2019) – Verrill is pleased to welcome employment law attorney Scott Connolly to the firm’s Boston office... |
Shepherd and Wedderburn Announces Six Associate Promotions Shepherd and Wedderburn has promoted six solicitors to Associate in its latest round of internal promotions, four of whom joined the firm as trainees... |
Unilever Acquires the Bolivian Company Astrix. Buenos Aires, 27 September 2019. On 30 August closed the acquisition through which Unilever Andina Bolivia S.A. purchased Astrix S.A., one the most important Bolivian cleaning and personal care products company. For more than twenty years, Astrix has been developing its activities in Bolivia, where it produces and markets mass consumption products... |
Alfred Kärcher SE Acquires Max Holder Group Assisted by Heuking
A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer and Dr. Peter Ladwig of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG (Winnenden) on the acquisition of Max Holder group (Reutlingen). Holder is known in the industry for its high level of competence in developing and manufacturing multifunctional municipal vehicles... |
Morgan & Morgan Advised in the Sale of a Frozen Desserts Business in the Republic of Panama Morgan & Morgan advised the sellers of a business engaged in the production, distribution and sale of ice pops, sorbets, ice cream and frozen desserts in the Republic of Panama. Partners Francisco Arias G. and Roberto Vidal, and associate Cristina De Roux, participated in this transaction... |
‘Hygge HQ’: Shoosmiths Solent Celebrates its First Anniversary at a New Location UK law firm Shoosmiths is celebrating its first anniversary of its new Solent office, and there is a feeling of growing momentum as the region experiences continued and improved growth including in its infrastructure... |
Shepherd and Wedderburn Acts for deltaDNA in Sale to Unity Technologies Shepherd and Wedderburn acted for the shareholders in Scottish data analytics company deltaDNA in its sale to US-based game platform developer Unity Technologies. Edinburgh-based deltaDNA has developed a powerful data analytics engine for game developers that tracks the performance of games in real time, across mobile, PC, TV, and console play... |
MinterEllison is Advising LandCorp on the Construction and Operation of Australia's First Ever Industrial Renewable Energy Microgrid Peel Business Park, the catalyst for the Transform Peel program, will be a 1,000-hectare estate and the new home of agri-innovation in Western Australia. In addition to creating a large number of jobs, it is predicted that the microgrid will offer businesses in the Peel Business Park an energy cost saving of around 30 percent... |
Funke Adekoya San Wins Partner of the Year at the African Legal Awards 2019 ǼLEX is delighted to announce that Funke Adekoya, SAN, was crowned winner of the Partner of the Year Award at the African Legal Awards 2019. The African Legal Awards recognises exceptional achievement in Africa’s legal services industry... |
Shoosmiths Celebrates 10 Years of Free Training for In House Lawyers UK law firm Shoosmiths is marking ten years since the launch of its highly successful regional series of free training events, designed for local employers’ in house legal (IHL) teams... |
Shoosmiths Nottingham Office Celebrates 35th Anniversary in City and Plots Further Growth Shoosmiths is celebrating its 35th year in Nottingham by setting out its ambitious new strategy to take the office to even greater success... |
Federal Health Policy Advisor Aaliyah K. Eaves Joins Dinsmore & Shohl Aaliyah K. Eaves has joined Dinsmore & Shohl LLP as partner of counsel with the health care practice group. She brings with her more than a decade of experience as a health care mediator in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration and U.S. Department of Defense medical system and as a policy advisor for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In both Europe and the U.S... |
Dinsmore’s Nita Hanson Announced as Pro Bono Service Award Recipient Nita Hanson, a litigation associate in Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Columbus office, has been announced among this year’s Pro Bono Award recipients from the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, Columbus Bar Association and the Columbus Bar Foundation. She will receive the honor on Oct. 24, during the ABA National Pro Bono Celebration Week... |
J. Michael Bernard Elected as Chairman of the World Services Group Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce that J. Michael Bernard, Detroit-based Member in the firm’s Corporate Finance Practice Group, was elected as Chairman of the World Services Group (WSG) for 2019 – 2020. Bernard officially took over the Chairman position at the WSG 18th Annual Meeting, which took place in Washington, D.C., from September 4-6... |
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Advises Wirtgen Invest on the Acquisition of the Office Building “T8” in Frankfurt A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office, successfully advised Wirtgen Invest in an off-market deal in its acquisition of the office building at Taunusanlage 8 (“T8”) from a real estate fund of the South Korean financial service provider Mirae Asset Global Investments Co... |
Springboard Advise Bristow & Sutor on the Acquisition of Credit Style Springboard Corporate Finance is pleased to announce that it has advised Redditch-based Bristow & Sutor on the acquisition of Credit Style. Established in 1977, Bristow & Sutor is a nationwide judicial services and debt recovery group, backed by Sovereign Capital Partners... |
Burrows Authors "Doing Business in" The Bahamas Global Practice Guide Graham Thompson Partner Theo Burrows provides a comprehensive review of the "Law and Practice" of Doing Business in The Bahamas. The writing appears in the 2019 Chambers Global Practice Guide for doing business in countries and territories around the world... |
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