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Kilpatrick Stockton LLP today announced the addition of Jerry Smith as a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. Mr. Smith joins the Corporate Practice Group, where he will focus his practice on tax matters. Mr. Smith has extensive experience in international, federal, state and local taxation of corporations and partnerships. His experience includes transaction planning

The international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP announced today that Robert H. Cohen has joined the firm as a Shareholder in the New York office. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Cohen was a partner in the Corporate practice at Morrison, Cohen, Singer & Weinstein, LLP. Cohen offers many years of experience representing issuers, underwriters

The international law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP today announced an expansion of its Brussels office, which opened in summer 2003. Five antitrust/competition lawyers have joined partners Marleen Van Kerckhove, William Baer, Tim Frazer, and Susan Hinchliffe to create a team of nine in Brussels. A reception marking the opening and expansion of the

Royal Bank of Canada today announced that it has reached a settlement in its dispute with Cooperative Centrale Raiffeisen Boerenleenbank, B.A., the large Dutch cooperative bank known as Rabobank. The 18-month-old dispute arose over Rabobank’s refusal to meet its payment obligation under a US$517 million swap transaction between the two banks signed in January 2001.

Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office acted for Principal Financial Group on its purchase of Guoco Group’s wholly owned Dao Heng Asset Management. The deal signifies the first round of progressive industry consolidation within Hong Kong’s pension asset-management industry. Following completion of the deal, Principal is now the sixth-largest pension provider in Hong Kong and

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. (SDSBS), which won $3 million from Orkin Exterminating, Inc. last September, has filed another complaint against Orkin and its parent company, Rollins, Inc. The complaint, which was filed in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County, also names Greg Saladino, Orkin’s local Branch Manager.

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP today announced that Mark I. Levy has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, where he will specialize in U.S. Supreme Court and appellate litigation. With 30 years of relevant experience, Mr. Levy will play a substantial role in developing and expanding Kilpatrick Stockton’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice. “Mark’s extensive background,

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Claude S. Serfilippi has been named Managing Partner of the Firm’s affiliated multinational partnership, Chadbourne & Parke, in London. Mr. Serfilippi succeeds partner William Greason, who headed the London office for the past six years. Mr. Greason will return to the Firm’s New

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that J. Robert Robertson has re-joined the Firm as a partner in the Chicago office. He will be a key player in the Firm’s 100-lawyer Antitrust & Competition Law Practice Group. Robertson returns after a two-year term as the senior litigation counsel for the Bureau of Competition

Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Tod A. Hildebrand, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a felony Information was filed in federal court in West Palm Beach today charging Robert I. Claire with mail fraud and false statements to the Securities