Frankfurt, 20 July 2015 – Mayer Brown is pleased to announce that Alexander Behrens has joined the Banking & Finance practice as a partner. Mr. Behrens, who will base his practice in Frankfurt, comes to Mayer Brown from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a financial services specialist. Mr. Behrens advises clients, which
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New York, NY – July 20, 2015 – Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that two experienced public finance practitioners, Alphonso (“Al”) E. Tindall, Jr. and Deborah (“Debby”) Hartmann Henry, have joined the firm’s Public Finance group. Al and Debby join Schiff Hardin from Squire Patton Boggs and are based in the
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Major dating site Plenty of Fish has been sold to the world’s largest online dating site, Match.com in a deal that has plenty of lawyers involved. In a news release, Venable LLP said that it has co-advised, with Canadian business firm McMillan LLP, client PlentyOfFish Media, Inc. on its sale to the Match Group, a
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Cloud-based law firms are becoming an increasing reality and now one law firm has created the largest lateral move of lawyers from a traditional firm to a cloud-based one. Florida-based FisherBroyles LLP announced this week that eight attorneys from law firm Roetzel & Andress LPA have joined the largest cloud-based firm in the United States
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There’s a lot of ‘different’ law practised in Hollywood you might think, but for one entertainment attorney a claim that an actress attempted to have her as a sex slave is a lawsuit too far. Attorneys representing the law firm Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder LLP won a Court round this week when the
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By Paul McKenzie and Wei Zhang On July 6, 2015, China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), circulated for comment two pieces of draft legislation with significant potential implications for data privacy and data security in China. Comments can be posted via the NPC’s website www.npc.gov.cn by August 5, 2015. The key provisions of these
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Snell & Wilmer – Ahron Cohen – When one thinks of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)—a law created to restore trust in the financial markets following the collapse of Enron—red grouper is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court recently decided whether the polychromatic ocean fish is considered
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How did a smart lawyer holding three degrees and who once counted Chief Justice John G Roberts as one of his class mates wind up haunting a Washington DC intersection and carrying his belongings in a plastic bag wind up as a homeless man? It’s a sad tale of a highly educated, talented man who
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today a groundbreaking settlement to resolve allegations that American Honda Finance Corporation (Honda) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers in auto lending. Honda is based in Torrance, California. The
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Conservative FOX News commentator Bill O’Reilly who has embraced his activism calling for a petition to declare that undocumented alienswho are deported and return to the US would receive a mandatory five year jail term. The petition, shown below, is addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). At
