Brown Rudnick News
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Baker Botts LLP announced three lateral hires last week including international tax lawyer Don J. Lonczak and capital markets lawyer Bonnie A. Barsamian.
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Federal securities class-action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared with 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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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.
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Federal securities class action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared to 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Michael J. Rivera, formerly chief investigative counsel for the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has joined Venable LLP’s Securities and Exchange Commission and white-collar defense group as a partner in the Washington office.
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DLA Piper, the world’s second- largest law firm, lost restructuring specialist H. Jeffrey Schwartz to Brown Rudnick, a midsize firm that specializes in servicing hedge, venture and private-equity funds.
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Two years after opening a Hong Kong office, Locke Lord LLP has expanded in the city by forming a partnership with the local law firm of Cheung & Lee.
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J.C. Penney Co., facing a potential threat to its turnaround plans, has come out swinging after debt holders claimed it technically defaulted on a bond.
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Brown Rudnick Ltd. said in a statement it has been hired to contest Allied Irish Banks Plc’s “coercive” 868.5 million-euro subordinated note exchange.
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Carl Icahn never shied away from picking a fight with a company he deemed undervalued or poorly run. In the past two months, he’s taken to meddling in investments put together by others.
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