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Andrea White Partner at law firm Shibley Righton LLP joins as Real Estate and Business Immigration law member

February 24, 2014

Andrea has spoken at such organizations as the Quebec Bar Association, the U.S.-Canada Board of Trade Joint Conference in Washington, D.C., and the Centre for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. She has been an instructor for the Real Estate section for the Canadian Bar Association Course, and is a member of the Ontario Bar Association Real Estate and Immigration section. She is also a past member of the executive of that section, and is a past member of the International Centre for Shopping Centres, the mentor committee of Commercial Real Estate Women, and the Centre for International Legal Studies.

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Anna Dabrowska Partner at Polish law firm Wardynski & Partners joins as Mergers and Acquisitions law member

February 11, 2014

Anna Dabrowska is a legal adviser and a partner and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Environmental Law practices at Wardynski & Partners.

 

She is involved mainly in transactional work, focusing on corporate law. She has taken part in many mergers and transformations of legal entities, as well as share purchase transactions and business acquisitions.

 

She also provides assistance to many clients in day-to-day issues arising in the operation of businesses in Poland, including setting up, restructuring and liquidation of companies, partnerships and branches, effecting changes in corporate structures, and initiating and monitoring related registration proceedings.

 

She has worked for Wardynski & Partners since 2004.Earlier she worked for Deloitte & Touche Tax Advisory and Wasylkowski & Partners. However, she started her legal career when she was still in law school working part time for her current law form, Wardynski & Partners.

 

Anna has co-authored two books published by LexisNexis Polska in cooperation with Wardynski & Partners: Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions (Warsaw 2011) and Legal Risks in M&A Transactions (Warsaw 2013).

 

She has also co-authored a publication for the LexisNexis in London as part of their database of law and regulation.


Anna is a member of the Warsaw Chamber of Legal Advisers since 2007.

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Patricia Lorenzo Vice President at Compass Lexicon joins as exclusive Economic Consultant in Competition Policy and Intellectual Property

January 21, 2014

Patricia Lorenzo is a Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s European competition policy practice. Prior to this, she worked in the competition policy group at LECG and NERA.


Patricia’s work focuses on the application economic analysis and econometric techniques to competition policy issues before the European Commission and National Antitrust Authorities and to valuation damages cases.

Her work has included the application of empirical models to evaluate the competitive impact of mergers and to estimate damages derived from antitrust infringements and from commercial business practices. She has also provided advice and prepared expert reports in the context of merger control and Article 102 proceedings.

 

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Dorothy Udeme at Nigerian firm Dorothy Ufot & Co joins as International Arbitration and Dispute law member

January 21, 2014

Dorothy has consistently been ranked by the International Who’s Who of commercial arbitration since 2009 as one of the world’s leading experts in international commercial arbitration. She is the author of the GAR’s International Arbitration Know-How Nigeria Chapter which can be viewed at GAR’s website at:
http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/knowhow/topics/61jurisdiction/18/nigeria

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Darani Vachanavuttivong at Thailand law firm Tilleke & Gibbins joins as Intellectual Property law member

January 21, 2014

Darani Vachanavuttivong is a formidable enforcer of intellectual property rights (IPR), including trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Regarded as “a brilliant, hands-on lawyer who works extremely hard for her clients” (WTR 1000 2012), Darani is currently recognized as a top IP practitioner by such publications as Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2003-2013), The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2003-2013), Practical Law Co. (2006-2013), and Chambers Asia-Pacific (2008-2013).

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Maria Sagrado partner at Indonesian based law firm Makarim and Taira S. joins as Corporate Finance and Capital Markets law member

January 07, 2014

Maria has been with M&T for more than 13 years. She has been dealing with various financing transactions involving foreign and local banks. She also has extensive experience in acquisitions (especially acquisitions of mining companies and plantation), capital market transactions, and corporate and commercial practices. Due to her experience in acquisitions of mining companies, Maria has been a speaker at some International events.

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Lorenza Langarica O’Hea partner at Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes joins as Real Estate law member in Mexico

January 06, 2014

Lorenza Langarica O'Hea has participated in structured financings, corporate, mergers and acquisitions matters, real estate and energy matters, including joint ventures and corporate and asset acquisitions, as well as tourist developments, with broad experience in representing domestic and international clients, regularly advising buyers, sellers, and investors in complex cross border merger and acquisition transactions, including the antitrust aspects of such transactions, as well as the purchase and sale of private companies, buyouts, joint ventures and divestitures in Mexican target companies. Ms Langarica O'Hea has been an integral part in several sales of highly valuable assets owned or controlled by Mexican governmental agencies.

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