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  • Latham, Bryan, Alston & Bird, O’Melveny: Business of Law

    Latham & Watkins LLP is opening a new office in Dusseldorf and hiring four partners from Shearman & Sterling LLP, which announced the closing of two German offices last month.

  • Seyfarth Shaw, BakerHostetler, Hunton: Business of Law

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP will open an office in Shanghai this summer, giving the firm its first office in Asia. China practitioner Wan Li, who recently joined the firm from DLA Piper LLP, will be the chief representative and managing partner of Seyfarth’s Shanghai office.

  • Weil, Proskauer, S&C, Jones Day, Bingham: Business of Law

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP represented American Realty Capital Properties Inc., which offered to buy Cole Credit Property Trust III Inc. for at least $5.7 billion, seeking to create one of the largest real-estate investment trusts that leases space to single tenants. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is advising Cole Holdings as owner of the external manager to Cole Credit Property Trust III.

  • Akin, Gump, Steptoe, Gibson Dunn: Business of Law

    John Dowd, a combative ex-Marine who cursed at a cameraman after court one day, was the lawyer Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam selected for his trial last year on insider-trading charges. The jury, citing overwhelming evidence, voted to convict.

  • Arbitration Center, Morgan Lewis, Latham: Business of Law

    The New York International Arbitration Center will open its doors in late spring, the organization said in a statement. The center, founded with support from 33 law firms, aims to promote international arbitration in New York.

  • Post-Knight Rules, Shoddy Mortgages, Higher One: Compliance

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is writing new rules in the wake of Knight Capital Group Inc. losses that could turn longstanding policies for how exchanges manage their automated systems into regulations.

  • Expert Networker, BofA, HSBC, JPMorgan, J&J in Court News

    John Kinnucan, the Broadband Research LLC founder who said he refused to secretly record a money manager in a U.S. probe of insider trading, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, the FBI said.

  • Skadden, Cleary, Wachtell, Hogan, O’Melveny: Business of Law

    Human Genome Sciences Inc. almost doubled in trading as the U.S.-based biotechnology company put itself up for sale after rejecting a $2.59 billion acquisition bid from GlaxoSmithKline Plc.

  • Kirkland, Latham, Davis, Freshfields: Business of Law

    Michael C. Keats, a former managing director in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s legal department, joined law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a litigation partner this week.

  • Goldman Sachs’s Keats Joins Kirkland & Ellis as Partner

    Michael C. Keats, a former managing director in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s legal department, joined law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a litigation partner this week.

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