Adding further depth and profile to its Asian real estate finance and investment banking practice, Paul Hastings announced today that Naosuke Fujita has joined the Taiyo Law Office in Japan, a registered association with the Firm, as a partner. Mr. Fujita worked as the core legal team member on the launch of the distressed asset […]

Baker & McKenzie announced today that Vladimir Dragunov and Andrei Soukhomlinov, members of the Banking & Finance Practice and the Real Estate & Construction Practice respectively, have been appointed partners in the Firms Moscow office. Their appointments were recognized at a Baker & McKenzie reception in Moscow on 27 May 2003 held in honor of

Coming on the heels of its extensive role in the drafting and passage of the Safety Act, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLPhas assembled the Patriot Coalition, a broad coalition of interested contractors . MLA is helping the Patriot Coalition (Providers of Anti-Terror Research, Innovations or Technology) implement and interpret the regulations required by the “Support

The law firm Harris Beach LLP is pleased to announce that former United States Congressman John J. LaFalce has joined the firm’s Buffalo office. The Honorable John J. LaFalce will assist the firm with small business and financial services matters and project development and financing initiatives. Congressman LaFalce will utilize Harris Beach’s Buffalo location as

The law firm of Winston & Strawn today announced that it will open a much anticipated London office with two partners, heavily experienced in international transactions, who will join Winston from the London office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Mr. Thomas J. Benz, a partner in the Morgan Lewis securities practice, and Ms. Zoe J.

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it advised Advent International on the 30 million Euro leveraged buyout of GWR Group Plc’s interest in the Danubius Radio Station. Debt facilities were provided by Mezzanine Management Central Europe. The transaction is one of Hungary’s first Western European-style structured buyouts. Advent International is an international private equity group

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that it has refocused its oil, gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) practice. The move comes in order to take advantage of new opportunities arising from global industry developments. These developments include the rapid changes taking place in Russia and elsewhere in the CIS,

International law firm Coudert Brothers is continuing its push to expand the firm’s capability in international arbitration. Well established and with a premier reputation internationally in the field, the firm is further bolstering its capabilities in Asia Pacific following two new appointments in Singapore, which is fast establishing itself as a regional centre for dispute

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP and Stites & Harbison PLLC announced that on May 15, 2003, after a four and a half week jury trial in Fulton County Probate Court, they obtained a $14.8 million jury verdict on claims of breach of fiduciary duty, self-dealing and conversion against the former executor of the estate

DETROIT (9 June 2003) – Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., Michigan’s largest and longest-established law firm, announced today the launch of an Aviation and Transportation Group. The new group will build on Miller Canfield’s existing experience in representing aviation and transportation-industry organizations, including commercial and on-demand air carriers, freight forwarders, corporate flight departments, banks