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| Latest News Releases | | Date | | Headlines | | | 17 November 2009 |  | Seven-member litigation and arbitration
team joins Mayer Brown’s Paris office
News Release - International Arbitration, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, France
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Ayela Semerdjian & Associates, a law firm dedicated to litigation and headed by Christophe Ayela and Renaud Semerdjian, has merged with Mayer Brown’s Paris office. |
| | 16 November 2009 | | Mayer Brown advising Mead Johnson Nutrition in $7.7 billion split off transaction
News Release - Corporate & Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, United States
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today it is advising Mead Johnson Nutrition (NYSE:MJN) in the $7.7 billion split off of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s 83% stake in the company. The transaction is expected to be completed in mid-December. |
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| Latest Media Coverage | | Date | | Headlines | | | 20 November 2009 | | NY court rules class can seek to recover funds in Philippine abuse case
New York Law Journal
Media Coverage - Supreme Court & Appellate, United States
Charles Rothfeld quoted on client Philippine National Bank recovering funds for human rights abuses committed by former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, saying that the Philippines had treated funds recovered from Marcos-era figures as "belonging generally to the government" and dedicated them to public purposes such as agrarian reform. |
| | 19 November 2009 | | Ending Russia’s long road to the WTO
Law 360
Media Coverage - Global Trade, Belgium
Edward Borovikov quoted on Russia’s request to join the WTO, saying when Russia submitted its request to join the WTO in 1993, the Soviet Union had fallen less than two years before, and the significant economic and political changes in the intervening 16 years have made the accession process very complex. Subscription required |
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