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  • Seyfarth, McKenna Long, Duane Morris: Business of Law

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP hired Steven R. Meier for its corporate department in Chicago. Meier joins Seyfarth from Jenner & Block LLP, where he was the co-chairman of the real-estate securities practice and a member of its tax department, the firm said in a statement.

  • Baker Botts, Akin, Greenberg, Wachtell: Business of Law

    Baker Botts LLP announced three lateral hires last week including international tax lawyer Don J. Lonczak and capital markets lawyer Bonnie A. Barsamian.

  • Shearman Kuwait Deal, Baker & McKenzie: Business of Law

    Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, said it received $2.19 billion in cash from Petrochemical Industries Co. of Kuwait as compensation for the cancellation of a joint venture more than four years ago.

  • Katten, Sullivan & Cromwell, WilmerHale: Business of Law

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP opened a Houston office led by former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner Mark Farley, who is one of eight lawyers hired to expand its environmental and workplace safety practices.

  • White & Case, Baker Botts, Gibson Dunn: Business of Law

    White & Case LLP opened an office in Madrid with the addition of partner Juan Manuel De Remedios, the former chairman of Latham & Watkins LLP’s corporate department in Spain. De Remedios, who will be joined by a local partner and a team of associates, will be the Madrid office executive partner.

  • Simpson Thacher, Baker Botts, Cooley: Business of Law

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP corporate partner William R. Dougherty took over the chairmanship of the firm’s executive committee yesterday.

  • Freeport LNG May Get U.S. Export Approval in Months

    Freeport LNG Development LP may get expanded approval from the U.S. Energy Department to export liquefied natural gas in the next quarter or two, the head of Baker Botts LLP’s LNG practice said.

  • Stanford Victim Penny-a-Dollar Payment Plan Goes to Judge

    R. Allen Stanford’s investors may recoup some of their losses more than four years after the Stanford Group Co. founder was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and put out of business.

  • Wachtell, WilmerHale, Cravath, Skadden: Business of Law

    Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP acted as legal advisers to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the second-biggest maker of life-sciences equipment by market value, which agreed to buy Life Technologies Corp. for $13.6 billion in cash in a deal that expands its reach in medical testing.

  • Archer & Greiner, McDermott, Davis Polk: Business of Law

    New Jersey-based law firm Archer & Greiner PC dismissed 14 attorneys, including seven nonequity partners across a mix of practices, firm President Christopher Gibson said.

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