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Gallop, Johnson & Neuman elects three new Partners

One of the ten largest law firms in St. Louis, Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, elected three attorneys, Jennifer R. Byrne, Angela N. Loehr, and Francis X. Miller as partners. The trio specializes in corporate transactions, commercial litigation, and real estate law, respectively.

Byrne practices in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities, and related matters. She has worked on a wide range of transactions, including stock and asset sales and purchases, mergers, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Loehr advises manufacturers in product liability actions throughout the U.S., medical professionals in malpractice actions, builders in construction dispute matters, and a myriad of businesses in commercial disputes. Miller represents clients in areas of real estate law and corporate law, including advising developers, purchasers and sellers in the acquisition, development, construction and financing of medical, office, retail, and residential properties.

International law firm Gallop, Johnson & Neuman has served clients including public and privately held corporations, small companies, start-up enterprises, entrepreneurs and non-profit entities, as well as individuals and families for three decades.

01-24-2007

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Chicago gets a new Clark Hill office

Michigan-based full service law firm Clark Hill PLC, which employs more than 170 attorneys, has opened office in downtown Chicago, where seven veteran attorneys of repute, Tina M. Bird, W. Kent Carter, Richard H. Chapman, James M. Drake, Edward L. Filer, Gary E. Green, and Fuad R. Sulayman have joined as members. Clark Hill's new downtown office will concentrate in construction, real estate, manufacturing, and financial services industries. An attorney with more than 15 years of experience, Filer will serve as the managing member of the new office and work as a business counselor and trial lawyer for businesses of all types, including the construction and real estate industries.

Welcoming the new members to the firm, CEO John Hern stated that the firm hopes to derive greatly from their collective experience and expertise in the practice areas. The firm also has serious plans to muscle up the existing team with more men in the coming future.

The new attorneys are delighted in accepting the challenges thrown to them by the firm's existing and future clients in the Chicago market and hope to reach a greater clientele from the firm's expanded outreach.

01-24-2007

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San Diego's lawyers move places

Gomez's trial practice brings him laurels
The 750-member Consumer Attorneys of San Diego has named attorney John Gomez, as the Trial Lawyer of the Year. Gomez who has his own law firm in downtown San Diego is renowned for his outstanding advocacy skills. Gomez is a former federal prosecutor who has been practicing as a civil litigator for the past seven years. During this period, Gomez evinced verdicts and settlements worth more than $130 million, together with multiple awards exceeding $1 million for his clients, including a $106 million jury verdict on "American Beauty" murder case involving Kristin Rossum.

Gomez's firm specializes in cases involving serious personal injury and wrongful death, defective and dangerous products, government liability, worker safety, wrongful employment practices, and business disputes.

New attorneys at Procopio, Cory
New attorneys Marsha Amin and Chad Chahbazi joined San Diego-based Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, while the firm also promoted four existing attorneys, Enrique Hernández-Pulido, Paul B. Johnson, Michael E. Lyon, and Roger C. Rappoport to partner status.

Chahbazi earlier served Blue Capital Law Group and practices on corporate formation and governance, debt financing, venture capital, and other corporate matters. Amin practices in all aspects of business litigation.

Among the newly elected partners, Hernández-Pulido is licensed in Mexico and California and earlier served the Mexican government in the areas of tax, finance, and administration. He represents multinational clients in international tax planning and the development of business transactions, worldwide investment, financing structures, planning for worldwide income, and estate and inheritance taxes. Johnson, who worked in the San Diego office of DLA Piper, concentrates on securities law, including public securities, offerings and compliance, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and venture-backed companies. Lyon practices real estate and finance law in San Diego on a broad range of real-estate transactional matters, with an emphasis on mezzanine lending, acquisitions and sales, financing, development projects, joint-venture formation and other equity investments, and joint-development agreements. Rappoport practice includes general business, corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital.

New member at McClellan
McClellan Law Firm recruited Robert J. Chambers II as an associate attorney in its litigation practice. Chambers is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association as well as Consumer Attorneys of San Diego.

Lewis partners Hatch & Parent
Robin Lewis, based out of Hatch & Parent's Santa Barbara and San Diego offices, has been named as partner at the firm. Hatch & Parent has a huge name in land use and water law practices in California. Lewis practices in real estate, land use, eminent domain, and environmental quality litigation. The firm hopes to leverage from Lewis' excellent client service and representation. The firm's five offices across the state deal in public and private entities on land use, water resources, and strategic planning.

New partners at Ault, Schonfeld
Ault, Schonfeld, Jordan & Munro LLP's four associates: Cecilia Preciado Ruby, Corinne Coleman Bertsche, Paul W. Smigliani, and Susana M. Mahady have been elected as partners to the firm. All San Diego University products, the four are trial counsel specialists and deal in accountant, insurance broker and real-estate professional negligence, insurance coverage, bad faith, automobile, commercial litigation, construction defect, products liability, employment discrimination-wrongful termination litigation, and appellate practice.

01-23-2007

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After Singapore, Duane Morris now eyes Vietnam

Duane Morris opened office in Singapore, where it will concentrate on the areas of corporate finance, project finance, energy, cross-border transactions, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and telecommunications. Former Mexican Ambassador to Singapore and Duane Morris' New York-based partner since 2004, Eduardo Ramos-Gómez, will lead the Singapore office. He is well known in Singapore's business and government sectors.

Besides Ramos-Gómez, another five of prominent partners currently practicing in Singapore will join the new office. They are Rudy Lim, former partner at DLA Piper; Lian Yok Tan, former associate at White & Case; Chris Muessel, at present serving as a special counsel at Baker & McKenzie; Sandor E. Schick, former counsel at Shearman & Sterling; and Adam Summerly, former counsel at Jones Day. The firm also expects three to four more associates to join the firm shortly.

Singapore's flourishing free-market economy has seen rapid growth in recent years and the firm's new office in the region will place it among the top five U.S. firms in Singapore. The firm also envisages opening two offices in Vietnam, one in Hanoi, and the other in Ho Chi Minh City, this spring. This move will push the firm to become the second U.S.-based firms with offices in Vietnam. Douglas Woloshin, the architect behind the firm's Asian presence, will continue to look after the firm's interest in Singapore and Vietnam. He will also lead the firm's Project Finance Practice Group, a vital factor of the firm's Asian practice and also serves at the firm's Partners' Board.

With more than two decades of experience behind him, renowned international and corporate lawyer Ramos-Gómez, will advise multinational and foreign companies in Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America on cross-border direct foreign investment, project development and project finance. His practice encompasses a broad range of international investments, from M&As and securities, financing to infrastructure projects and other corporate transactions in the United States, Latin America, and Asia. Apart from this, he will also head the Latin America desk in the Singapore office.

01-22-2007

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Associate accuses giant firm of biasness

One of Sullivan & Cromwell's fourth-year associates filed a state lawsuit seeking a jury trial and compensation with penalizing damages. The associate alleged the firm of adopting a systematic discrimination and retaliation campaign against him because of his sexual orientation.

Filing the lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court Manhattan against the prominent law firm, Aaron Brett Charney leveled allegations that the firm's senior partners in M&A practice group since early 2005 subjected him to a series of "lewd and illegal conduct." Charney who will fight his own case, said that no other lawyers wanted to take on the law firm of this stature.

In his lawsuit, Charney denied accusations of his "alleged" gay affair with another of the firm's associate for which he was "sacked". Charney names eight of the firm's top-slot lawyers in his suit; notable among them is partner in the mergers practice Eric Krautheimer. Citing the firm's heavy-handedness towards him, Charney also stated that after he lodged a formal complaint with the firm's higher authorities, they began harassing him by transferring him to a foreign office on pretext of his over-billing firm's clients, etc. Though not formally sacked, Charney says he has been asked not to attend work till the firm completes its internal investigation on the matter.

On their part the firm denies all allegations leveled by its associate stating them as baseless. The firm's chairman, H. Rodgin Cohen, and another partner, David H. Braff (who has openly accepted his gay status), categorically denying the allegation said that the firm has a strong culture of acceptance and in fact fights for their equal rights.

01-22-2007

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Heller Ehrman opens shop in London

U.S. law firm Heller Ehrman plans to set up shop in London this year; this will be the firm’s first venture on the European shores. The London office, the firm’s fourth off shore venture and the 13^th worldwide, will leverage the firm’s core practice areas in corporate, real estate, and competition by widening its scope of operation on a broader global platform. With the new office in London, the firm’s technology practice spans key global technology markets from Asia to the U.K. Three current shareholders: Brian D. Smith, Edward P. Henneberry, and Stephen C. Ferruolo will relocate to handle the London office early this year.

In the face of emerging prospects in the growth and technology industry companies’ arena, the move also consolidates its position as a leading services provider in the life sciences sector. It also provides a boost to the firm’s Venture Law Group (VLG) brand, which it acquired post-merger in September 2003. The VLG is a premier U.S.-based technology and emerging growth practice.

Of the trio, Ferruolo will hold his forte concentrating on emerging growth and public life sciences and technology companies in the new office. His main areas of practice are corporate finance, governance, and mergers and acquisitions. While Smith will look after real estate private equity and hospitality, the third partner Henneberry will practice in the areas of antitrust and competition. They will collectively supervise the office’s growth, leading European business development and also make lateral recruitments. The firm envisages recruiting as many as 15 to 25 lawyers by year-end.

Heller Ehrman’s more than 700 attorneys build the firm’s three core practice area strengths. The firm’s expanding client base’s continued demand for quality and experienced legal services emboldened it to take a step further into the global legal arena.

01-19-2007

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Dorsey & Whitney shows peers how to M&A!

With 174 domestic merger and acquisition (M&A) deals worth $33 billion completed successfully during 2006, Dorsey & Whitney LLP was ranked third among U.S. law firms. In 2005, Dorsey deals in the U.S. were worth $13 billion, while the worldwide figures increased from $19.5 billion at the same time to almost $54 billion in 2006. Since 1994, Thomson Financial has been publishing the law firm M&A rankings, wherein Dorsey acquired a position among the top three each year in the domestic category. In the worldwide rankings, Dorsey bagged the ninth position for deals completed in 2006, which increased to 243 from 205. The year before, in 2005, the firm had placed in the 13^th position.

Dorsey’s more than 650 lawyers in 19 locations represent some of the most successful clients from Fortune 500 companies leaders in the financial services, investment banking, etc.

01-19-2007

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