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CHICAGO, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ International law firm McDermott Will & Emery expanded its Transactions practice today with the addition of
Christian Fabian who joined as partner in the Chicago office. Christian s practice focuses on M&A and private equity with particular expertise in cross-border transactions involving Latin America. The addition of Christian expands the Firm s capabilities in its growing Latin America group, and adds bench strength to the Firm s robust M&A and private equity practices. Christian s experience leading international businesses and equity sponsors through significant cross-border transactions builds on our transactions strengths, particularly in the Latin America markets, said Harris Siskind, global head of McDermott s Transactions Group. Christian is not only a technically excellent lawyer, but a client service all-star and we re excited to have him on board.
Toxic contamination usually gets this dramatic only in Hollywood.
In the week before Christmas 2019, commuters on I-696 in Madison Heights were startled by a fluorescent green chemical ooze weeping from a concrete retaining wall along an earthen embankment, the substance puddling on the freeway s shoulder.
Tests later showed the ooze laden with hexavalent chromium, prolonged exposures to which can cause nasal and sinus cancers, kidney and liver damage. The source was obvious, straight up the embankment from the oozing site: Electro-Plating Services, a struggling chrome plating business long on the radar of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its hazardous waste mismanagement.
Environmentalists and industrialists can coexist, says Nick Schroeck
Nick Schroeck, associate dean of experiential education at Detroit Mercy School of Law
Detroit Mercy School of Law: Business and environmental interests don t have to be intrinsically at odds with each other. That s the stance taken by
Nick Schroeck, associate dean of experiential education and professor at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Growing up in metro Detroit, Schroeck developed an appreciation for natural resources from his parents, and as an adult, he became intrigued by the complicated relationship between the Great Lakes state and its most precious natural asset. Schroeck served as a special prosecutor in the Flint Water crisis and is keenly observing litigation over Enbridge s Line 5 pipeline.