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..

Jon M. Gregg, a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, was killed when the twin-engine private aircraft he was piloting crashed into Lake Ontario near Toronto on July 7, 2003. Mr. Gregg, who owned the six-seat Beechcraft Baron and was its sole occupant at the time, was on final

Hale and Dorr represented Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its June 30, 2003 deal with Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, to jointly develop and commercialize Millennium’s Velcade product outside the United States. Velcade is the first of a new class of medicines called proteasome inhibitors and the first treatment in more than

Duane Morris LLP, among the one hundred largest law firms in the nation, today announced that two lawyers in the firm’s Miami office, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla and Luis E. Rojas, have been elected partners. Both Diaz de la Portilla and Rojas are members of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. Messrs. Diaz de la

The Corporate Group at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP have advised Rhodia on the sale of their global polyurethane flame retardants business to Albemarle Corporation. The transaction completed on 23rd July 2003. Rhodia’s polyurethane flame retardants business generated sales over 60 million euros in 2002. As part of the transaction, Albemarle will acquire Rhodia’s

Philip J. Bagley III, a Richmond-based partner at Troutman Sanders LLP, has been elected chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (RPPT). He was selected at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Mr. Bagley’s election to chair the RPPT section is the culmination of a three-year