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Clifford Chance acted on two deals out of its Hong Kong office, one being a US$700 million a syndicated, multicurrency term loan facility to ILFC led by JPMorgan. This cross-border transaction was one of the first multicurrency financings for ILFC. The deal was lead by Evan Cohen (partner – Hong Kong) and Steve Lyons (associate

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. will participate in the economic recovery and reform of Iraq by providing legal, regulatory and policy advice as part of a major contract awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID contract was awarded to BearingPoint, Inc., which will look to Squire Sanders as its legal adviser. The

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Pillsbury Winthrop LLP is pleased to report that Michelle Hallsten has returned to the firm’s Sacramento office as partner, where she will head up the business department in the Sacramento market. Hallsten, who served as Of Counsel with Pillsbury Winthrop in the Sacramento office from 1995 to 2000, represents emerging and established companies in a

Pennie & Edmonds LLP, one of the largest and oldest full-service intellectual property law firms in the country, has announced it will open a new office in San Diego, CA later this summer – its second office in California. Anthony Insogna, a partner in Pennie & Edmonds’ Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Group, will lead the San

CFO Magazine last month confirmed Mallesons Stephen Jaques nomination as the “best legal services firm in Australia”. The Corporate Legal Services Firm of the Year is one of 14 categories of CFO’s annual survey of professional excellence and is the second year that an award has been presented to a law firm. The Awards are

Bill Brack, who has more than two decades of legal and lobbying experience in the nation’s capital, has joined the Washington office of Bracewell & Patterson L.L.P. as partner in the Government Relations, Advocacy and Strategy Section. Brack’s background spans both the public and private sectors. He served as chief of staff and chief counsel

Kilpatrick Stockton is adding 25 lawyers to its London office effective August 1. The lateral group, which consists of lawyers who have been in the London office of Altheimer & Gray, will join following a vote by the Kilpatrick Stockton partners over the weekend to extend partnership offers to a group of equity and income

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC announced on July 16 the further growth of its Government Relations Practice Group in its Washington, DC office with the addition of Jimmy Broughton, former chief of staff to North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. “Jimmy Broughton has worked hard to make North Carolina, and the United States, a better

In March 2003, Global Financial Review, a leading international trade finance publication, conducted a poll of its readers to determine which law firms they consider the best for trade finance. Pillsbury Winthrop was one of only three U.S. law firms listed in the Top Ten. In the top ten law firms worldwide, it ranked ninth..