A specialist banking and insurance deal team from Pinsent Curtis Biddle has advised Bank of Scotland on a £147 million management buyout from health insurer Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA). The high profile deal has seen RSA continue its disposal programme by selling its healthcare business, which provides private medical, personal accident, travel and legal […]

In July, Cleary Gottlieb closed 20 Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae real estate mortgage investment conduit (REMIC) transactions, representing a total of more than $34 billion of mortgage-backed securities. The firm represented the underwriters, including Countrywide, Lehman, JP Morgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Greenwich and Nomura. To

Buchanan Ingersoll represented BodyMedia, a leading provider of body monitoring products, in a $4 million third round financing deal that was announced on August 5. The team from Buchanan Ingersoll consisted of corporate attorneys Jeremy Garvey and Chad Whalen. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvertson ePlanet of Redwood City, CA and Draper Triangle

Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP and the Roseland, New Jersey law firm of Brach, Eichler, Rosenberg, Silver, Bernstein, Hammer & Gladstone, P.C. today announced the joining of their practices, creating a 300-lawyer entity with nine offices in the Mid- Atlantic region. For a transitional period, the Roseland, New Jersey office will be known as

Rosemarie Oda has joined the San Francisco office of Pillsbury Winthrop as Counsel in the financial institutions practice. Oda held high-ranking positions at both a federal bank regulatory agency and a state banking department. For the past three years, she has held the position of General Counsel of the Department of Financial Institutions for the

Mississippi lawyers Butler Snow recently completed the construction of a state-of-the-art courtroom which is equipped with the latest courtroom technology and is thought to be the first such facility in Mississippi. Modern trial practice requires a lawyer not only to have knowledge of traditional courtroom skills in communication and tactics, but also to be proficient

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP is pleased to announce that John Daniel has joined the Firm as Of Counsel to the Firm’s government and construction contracts practice. “We are delighted that John has chosen to join our government and construction contracts practice. In addition to being an accomplished practitioner of government and construction contracts

Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that Stephen Fraidin has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. A former senior corporate partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Fraidin will join Kirkland’s transactional practice. “We are delighted to welcome a lawyer of Steve’s caliber,” says Thomas D. Yannucci, who

Latham & Watkins1 is pleased to announce that UK Corporate lawyer Martin Saywell will join the London office as partner. Saywell will join from Simmons & Simmons, where he has practiced since 1995. His corporate practice includes public and private mergers, private equity transactions, take-overs and initial public offerings and secondary offerings. His recent experience

Reed Smith’s Jose Fuentes was named First Vice Chair of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly at the organization’s biannual convention in Houston, Texas. Fuentes heads up Reed Smith’s Government Relations team. He is former Attorney General of Puerto Rico and was a co-chair of the 2000 Bush Presidential Election Committee.