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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Jones Day announced that Michael Conwayhas joined as a partner in the Firm's Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation (FILR) Practice, and will be based in its Chicago Office. He was previously a Chicago partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., where he served as Vice Chair of the Business Litigation and Corporate Services...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
McNees attorney, Katherine Pandelidis Granbois, was recently elected to serve as United Way of Lancaster County's Chair Elect of the Board of Directors. Resident in the firm's Lancaster office, Granbois is Of Counsel in the Corporate & Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and International Law practice groups.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
FTI Consulting, Inc.(NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced that the Board of Directors elected Laureen E. Seeger as a director of the Company, effective March 7, 2016. Ms. Seeger joins the Board of Directors as an independent director,...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Baker Tilly’s Executive Managing Partner of Strategic Growth Ed Offterdinger co-chaired a successful 29th Annual Leukemia Ball presented by PhRMA that raised millions of dollars for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), noting the far-reaching positive impact of the event as follows, “We’ve made great progress but we won’t stop...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
KPMG LLP and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to KPMG’s professional services offerings. The agreement, including a focus on auditing services, builds on several recent successful KPMG initiatives demonstrating the promise of cognitive technologies in transforming the firm’s...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
McGuireWoods partner Art Gambill has been elected as a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, an exclusive professional organization dedicated to promoting the field of commercial finance law. Gambill will be inducted April 9 during the organization’s annual meeting in Montreal.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Gulfport Energy Corporation has priced an underwritten public offering of 14,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $25.25 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $371.2 million. The 14,700,000 share offering represents a 700,000 share upsize to the originally proposed 14,000,000 share offering. Akin Gump advised Gulfport in the...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
King & Spalding advised Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI) on the acquisition of four office buildings in West Los Angeles for approximately $1.34 billion, and also advised DEI on a joint venture with Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to provide equity capital to fund the purchase of the properties.
Douglas Emmett plans to retain 20 to 30 percent of...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Clifford Chance has today announced two new members of the firm's Partnership Council, chaired by Senior Partner Malcolm Sweeting. Neeraj Budhwani and Jeremy Connick succeed outgoing Council members, Katherine Coates and Simon Davis who have both completed two terms. Kate McCarthy and Tim Wang were also re-elected to serve a second three-year term.
The...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
McGuireWoods is expanding its Raleigh office with the arrival of accomplished partners Mary Nash Rusher, Jean Gordon Carter and Charles Case, who join the firm’s leading public finance, private wealth, and environmental practices, respectively.
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Andrew S. Rusniak, an Associate in the McNees Estate Planning and Corporate & Tax practice groups, will serve as an instructor for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s course, Estate Planning for the Middle Market Client.
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Fish & Richardson announced that Betty Chen, a principal in the firm’s Silicon Valley and Austin offices, has been selected for the 2016 Fellows program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). The selective LCLD Fellows program is designed to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms and...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Wolters Kluwer today announced that customers can now register for the second annual ELM Solutions user conference. The 2016 event, ELM16, will be held Sept. 20-22 at the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World® in Orlando, Fla. For a limited time, ELM Solutions is offering a Spring Super Savings of $400 off the regular conference rate.
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Fish & Richardson announced today that Dr. Tiffany A. Reiter, an associate in the firm’s Boston office, has been selected for the 2016 Pathfinders program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). This new program is designed to train early-career attorneys in critical career development strategies including leadership skills and...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Fish & Richardson announced today that it won $6,069,266 in attorneys’ fees for its client, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated. (CBOE), in the company’s multi-year patent dispute with International Securities Exchange, LLC (ISE) (Chicago Bd. Options Exchange, Inc. v. International Securities Exchange, LLC). ...
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Monday, April 4, 2016
McNees Wallace & Nurick’s David M. Kleppinger has been elected Chair of the United Way of the Capital Region Board, effective April 1. David will serve a one-year term.
David, Chairman of McNees, served as Vice Chair for the 2012 United Way campaign and Chair for the 2013 United Way campaign.
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Friday, April 1, 2016
“People from all over the world, businesses from all over the world, investors, really respect the opportunity the [Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court] provides for having the real expertise to adjudicate business matters.”
So says Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, in a new video...
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Weil is representing The Sherwin-Williams Company on antitrust aspects of its proposed acquisition of The Valspar Corporation. The transaction, valued at approximately $11.3 billion, will create a premier global paints and coatings company, and is expected to close in early 2017.
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Weil is advising IHS Inc. in its definitive agreement to combine with Markit Group Limited in an all-share merger of equals valued at more than $13 billion. Upon completion of the merger, the combined company will be renamed IHS Markit, and will be a global leader in critical information, analytics and solutions with headquarters in London. The deal...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
McGuireWoods continues to deepen its leading financial service litigation and investigations team with the arrival of Jarrod Shaw and K. Issac deVyer.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Additions Represent Strategic Boost in Firm’s Services to Finance Industry Clients
McGuireWoods has expanded its nationally recognized government investigations and financial services regulatory practice with the addition of William Goydan, John Lukanski and Kiran Somashekara as partners in New York.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Fish & Richardson announced today that Richard Sterba, a principal in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, will be awarded a Distinguished Service Medal from the Linn Inn Alliance in recognition of his outstanding service in bringing the American Inns of Court (AIC) experience to the Intellectual Property (IP) law community. Sterba will be...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
McNees attorney James P. DeAngelo was appointed President of the Board of Directors of Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, effective March 16. Jim will serve a two year term.
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Monday, March 28, 2016
David S. Reidy, a leading financial services litigator with a cutting-edge practice advising financial technology companies, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in the San Francisco office.
