AbovetheLaw published this article from Bruce Stachenfeld is the managing partner of Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, which is an approximately 70-lawyer law firm based in midtown Manhattan. The firm is known as “The Pure Play in Real Estate Law” because all of its practice areas are focused around real estate. With over 50 full-time real […]
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LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – LONDON and WASHINGTON, D.C., 5 January 2015 – Hogan Lovells has announced the promotion of 24 new partners, effective 1 January 2015. The global law firm includes more than 800 partners in offices across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Collectively, the group of new partners
Law firms in China continued to grow during 2014, fueled mainly by M&A and regulatory work and the US firms surveyed by China Daily say they expect the trend to continue this year. “The volume, deal size and sophistication of US acquisition matters from our China-based clients have steadily increased in the past several years.
A law firm founded in Yorkshire by a husband and wife team and entrepreneurs in 2009 already employs 70 people and has forecast an income increase of £1.1million this year, after acquiring new offices and hiring 23 new staff in 2014. Newtowns Solicitors of York has long term growth plans and a successful expansion of its
LawFuel.com – January 8, 2015 – Reed Smith LLP today announced the election of 24 new partners, effective January 1. Fourteen of the new partners practice in Reed Smith’s U.S. offices; seven in the firm’s London office; and one new partner is in each of the firm’s offices in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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LawFuel.com –Law Firm News & Commentaries – Skadden represented The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, the state-owned Egyptian petroleum company, on a $1.3 billion pre-export financing, which closed December 29, 2014. The financing was raised though a syndicated bank facility. This was the first time the company had been able to raise long-term debt in the international
