Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lütt is joining the firm’s Frankfurt office as a partner. Formerly a partner with the German law firm Luther Menold, Lütt practices in the area of mergers and acquisitions, with a recent focus on private equity transactions. He is expected to begin at Latham & […]

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. is enhancing its ability to serve clients with interests in post-conflict Iraq by partnering with a Kuwaiti law firm and adding a lawyer who has extensive Middle East experience. Squire Sanders, which currently represents companies rebuilding Iraq, today announced its affiliation with M.M. Al-Ghazali & Partners. In addition, Daniel Q.

Khattar Wong, Eversheds’ associated firm in Singapore, today announced that it had been awarded a licence by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to practice in mainland China. The licence enables the operation of an office in the Stock Exchange building in the Pudong District of Shanghai. Commenting on the opening Alan Jenkins,

Dechert LLP announced today the opening of its Palo Alto office with the addition of 28 lawyers formerly with Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP in Palo Alto. The new Silicon Valley team establishes Dechert’s third office in California and its 15th office worldwide. The Palo Alto office opening significantly enhances Dechert’s intellectual property litigation, commercial

With increasing scrutiny of companies’ corporate governance and compliance systems, the introduction of a new diagnostic tool to measure compliance mathematically is an important step in assuring directors that their companies can meet their obligations in an increasingly regulated environment. The ‘do-it-yourself’, numerical benchmark compliance tool ‘Complir8’ believed to be a world-first, is the brainchild

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International law firm Cleary Gottlieb today received Chambers and Partners “U.S. Tax Law Firm of the Year” award. Chambers selected Cleary from finalists including Caplin & Drysdale; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Davis Polk & Wardwell; Irell & Manella; McKee Nelson; Sullivan & Cromwell; and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. Chambers presented the award to Cleary at

Cornelius J. Golden, Jr., project finance partner at the international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, has won a 2003 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for his article, “SEC Forces Rethink of Earnings Reports.” The awards, which honor authors for excellence in legal writing – and, in particular, for the use of clear language,

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it acted as issuer’s counsel in a US$500 million Eurobond offering which was guaranteed by ALROSA Company Limited, Russia’s principal diamond producer. Commenting on the offering, Moscow Capital Markets Partner Mitch Gitin said “This is a landmark offering of debt securities, being the largest offering to date by a

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it recently acted for the City of Kyiv in the first municipal eurobond offering from Ukraine. The transaction was structured as a US$150 million issue of loan participation notes to fund a loan to the City of Kyiv, acting through the Kyiv City Council. Kyiv is the political capital