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New Frontiers: Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Launches in Cairo and Abu Dhabi

The firm's push into Egypt and the UAE is a strategic move to pursue arbitration opportunities.
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Japan’s Mori Hamada Joins Funder LCM for $150M Credit Suisse Bonds Claim

More than a year since the $17 billion writedown of Credit Suisse’s AT-1 bonds, law firms are still gathering investor classes to recoup their losses
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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Over Alleged War Crimes in Gaza

The court said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant "intentionally and knowingly" deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival.
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Pérez-Llorca, Deloitte Legal and White & Case behind €1B Green Deal in Spain

ACCIONA Energía has agreed to sell a portfolio of hydroelectric plants to Endesa for €1 billion.
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Ashurst Hires Tax Disputes Litigator in Paris, Plus Other French and Benelux Moves

CGR Avocats hired a finance partner from Watson Farley, while Cohen & Gresser added a white-collar specialist and Grant Thornton Société D’Avocats recruited a corporate M&A chief. 
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White & Case, Cleary Among Firms Gearing Up for Biggest London IPO Since 2022

French premium broadcasting channel Canal+ is being spun out by its media conglomerate owner Vivendi.
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Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf Banking Lawyer on Trial in Germany’s Cum-Ex Tax Scandal

Kai-Uwe Steck, once a pivotal witness in the prosecution of lawyers and bankers charged with looting billions from the Treasury, now finds himself on the other side of the courtroom—facing trial for alleged tax evasion.
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DLA Piper & Hogan Lovells Expand German Construction and Property Practices

DLA Piper’s Düsseldorf office has hired Clifford Chance real estate partner Gerold Jaeger while Hogan Lovells is bringing on a senior Dentons construction partner and his team.
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To Thrive in Central and Eastern Europe, Law Firms Need to 'Know the Rules of the Game'

Large U.S. and U.K. firms have found that rates and profitability in the Central and Eastern European region fall short of expectations. But some firms are doing well there.
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Porsche's Luxembourg-Based Venture Capital Arm Hires General Counsel From Clifford Chance

Early-career attorney Lynn Nussbaum is taking the legal reins of Porsche Ventures as it hits the gas on its next phase of growth.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.

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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.

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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.

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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.

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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.

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