Today, California Superior Court Judge Marie S. Weiner (San Mateo County) entered a $516.7 million judgment in favor of Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. in the case Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. v. Actelion Ltd., et al., bringing to a close the trial in Asahi’s state-court lawsuit against Swiss drug maker Actelion and various of its executives and subsidiaries. Asahi’s trial team was led by Morgan Lewis San Francisco partners Christopher Banks, Rollin Chippey, II, and Benjamin Smith, and associate Tera Heintz. New York partner Alan Neuwirth is responsible for the firm’s long-term relationship with Asahi Kasei (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Groupe du Louvre in connection with the refinancing of a €1.2 billion facility.
The facility will be refinanced through two new facilities, one by Aareal Bank A.G. and the other by a syndicate of French lenders (Natixis, Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale and BNP Paribas) (more…)
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that Chuck Knauss has joined the firm as co-chair of its Environmental Practice and Shannon Broome has joined as chair of the Air Quality and Climate Change Practice. Mr. Knauss, based in Katten’s Washington office, joins the firm from the Washington office of Bingham McCutchen LLP. Ms. Broome has been in private practice for the last 10 years while serving as Executive Director of a trade coalition, the Air Permitting Forum, and was previously manager of General Electric’s domestic and international air quality programs. She will split her time between Washington and California’s Bay Area. Mr. Knauss and Ms. Broome are nationally recognized authorities on the Clean Air Act and a range of environmental and energy laws, and bring substantial legislative experience to the firm (more…)
Arent Fox LLP won a major victory on June 23 for its client, the President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame, when the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma denied a plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment in a wrongful death suit by the widows of the deceased presidents of Burundi and Rwanda, who were killed in an airplane explosion in 1994 (more…)
The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in order to protect the franchise financially and provide a path that will enable the Club to consummate a media transaction and capitalize the team. Dodger owner Frank McCourt cited Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s refusal to approve the Fox transaction as the cause for the Chapter 11 filing (more…)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has landed a group of Labor and Employment partners from Seyfarth Shaw. Amongst the group is Thomas R. Kaufman, co-chair of Seyfarth’s national wage/hour class action practice. Joining him are Michael L. Gallion and Gregg A. Fisch. All three join Sheppard’s Los Angeles office.
