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DLA Piper, K&L Gates and Gilbert + Tobin Each Add a Partner in Australia

Partners join from Dentons and White & Case
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HSF Defends Bayer on Roundup Class Action as Litigation Comes to an End in Australia

Follows finding that the pesticide isn’t carcinogenic
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MoFo Doubles Down on Private Equity with Second Asia Partner Hire in a Week

Morrison Foerster also hired private equity partner Scott Jalowayski last week in Singapore.
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A&O Shearman, Cleary Gottlieb Act on $700M Dunlop Tire Brand Sale to Japan's Sumitomo

A&O Shearman is acting for Sumitomo Rubber while Cleary Gottlieb is representing Goodyear
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MoFo Replenishes Singapore Corporate Partner Loss as Lawyer Returns From Gibson Dunn

Earlier this week, CMS hired away Morrison Foerster's Singapore corporate partner Steven Tran, who will relocate back to Hong Kong with his new firm.
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China’s Han Kun Scoops Up Another Senior Partner from Foreign Firm

Just last week, Han Kun brought on former Milbank partner Alex Tao in Beijing.
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Fenwick & West Shutters Decade Old Shanghai Office, Sole Partner Retires from Firm

Fenwick & West launched its Shanghai office in 2014 with a team of five lawyers from Covington & Burling.
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Cooley Takes on Skadden Corporate Partner in Beijing

Yilin Xu's move to Cooley comes months after Skadden's announcement of a restructuring of its China offering.
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A&O Shearman Loses 15 Asia Partners in a Year

Three of the 15 partners who left the practice in Asia were legacy Shearman & Sterling partners. Some departees also left the legacy practices after the merger was voted through but before the merger went live in May last year.
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Milbank, Wachtell, Ropes and Pittsburgh Duo Aim to Save Nippon Steel's US Steel Merger

Ropes & Gray, Milbank and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz all advised on the $14 billion acquisition. They're joined in two federal lawsuits filed in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh by attorneys from Reed Smith and K&L Gates as well as Mayer Brown.
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J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.

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Rebecca Maller-Stein and Kent A. Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer have entered their appearances for Hanaco Venture Capital and its executives, Lior Prosor and David Frankel, in a pending securities lawsuit. The action, filed on Dec. 24 in New York Southern District Court by Zell, Aron & Co. on behalf of Goldeneye Advisors, accuses the defendants of negligently and fraudulently managing the plaintiff's $1 million investment. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, is 1:24-cv-09918, Goldeneye Advisors, LLC v. Hanaco Venture Capital, Ltd. et al.

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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.

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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al.

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Wilfred P. Coronato and Daniel M. Schwartz of McCarter & English have stepped in as defense counsel to Electrolux Home Products Inc. in a pending product liability lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 26 in New York Eastern District Court by Poulos Lopiccolo PC and Nagel Rice LLP on behalf of David Stern, alleges that the defendant's refrigerators’ drawers and shelving repeatedly break and fall apart within months after purchase. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, is 2:24-cv-08204, Stern v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

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