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Feulner Returns to Chadbourne & Parke as Special Counsel

joshua — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:06:47 +0000

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today Gary R. Feulner has rejoined the firm as senior counsel in the Dubai office. Feulner headed the firm’s former Abu Dhabi office from 1984 to 1990.

Feulner also worked for Chadbourne in New York, Washington, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai/Sharjah before moving to Abu Dhabi. More recently, Feulner served for more than 18 years as general counsel of SHUAA Capital psc, a Dubai-based investment bank.

A veteran practitioner in the United Arab Emirates, his experience includes extensive international transactional and financial services work, such as private equity, mutual funds, public offerings and securities brokerage, as well as regulatory, banking, litigation, bankruptcy, employment and general corporate law.

“We are pleased to welcome Gary back to the firm,” said Chadbourne Managing Partner Charles K. O’Neill. “He knows the UAE legal market inside and out and his return will benefit our clients, especially those in the capital markets and private equity fields.”

Chadbourne returned to the UAE in 2007 making more readily available to clients in the Middle East the firm’s strong practices in energy, project finance and cross-border acquisitions. The head of the Dubai office, Daniel J. Greenwald, has known and worked with Feulner for over 30 years and was earlier responsible for recruiting him as general counsel at SHUAA Capital.

“I am extremely happy to have Gary back at Chadbourne,” said Greenwald. “We will benefit from his broad general experience and insight into local and regional legal and regulatory issues, and from his in-house perspective. More specifically, he strengthens our capital markets and private equity experience in the region, as well as our overall corporate know-how.”

Chadbourne & Parke LLC is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Kyiv, Almaty, Dubai and Beijing.

Mayer Brown Hires for Global Projects Group

Erik Even — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:51:33 +0000

Mayer Brown has brought on two attorneys for its Global Projects Group.

Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing of independent power projects and “inside the fence” energy projects.

A 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, Edwards holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University.

Robert S. Goldberg joins the Houston office from Chadbourne & Parke, as a partner. Goldberg advises lenders, investors, sponsors, developers and other participants in domestic and international project finance and corporate matters, including acquisition and divestiture work.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mayer Brown is one of the largest global law firms both by number of lawyers and revenue. The firm has over 1,800 lawyers in key business centers across the Americas, Asia and Europe

SJ Berwin Expands into Asia

Erik Even — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:26:23 +0000

SJ Berwin is launching a new dedicated China and East Asia practice with an office in Hong Kong.

The firm’s first office beyond Europe will be founded by three partners and one consultant: Asia Managing Partner Daniel Liew, Peter Tse, Hans Thomas Kessler and Giovanna Kwong.

The team will focus on corporate & commercial work and dispute resolution, including private equity funds and buy-outs, M&As, projects and project finance with a focus on the infrastructure, energy, power, water, telecommunications, technology, life sciences, real estate, banking and finance, insurance, steel and natural resources sectors.

Founded in 1982, SJ Berwin is a pan-European firm with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris and Turin.