Latham & Watkins Makes Major Additions to Leading Latin America and Capital Markets Practices
Gianluca Bacchiocchi and Guido Liniado bring extensive experience in energy and infrastructure with an emphasis on capital markets, projects, banking, and finance.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Latham & Watkins LLP
1 is pleased to announce that Gianluca Bacchiocchi and Guido Liniado have joined the firm as partners in the Corporate Department and Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group and as members of the Latin America and Capital Markets Practices. They join the firm s New York office and will advise clients on energy and infrastructure transactions throughout Latin America.
Supreme Court Case Could Limit Future Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Industry
The court heard arguments on a technical legal question in a case that demands fossil fuel companies help pay for the costs of dealing with climate change.
Heavy rains in Baltimore caused severe damage in 2014.Credit.Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
Jan. 19, 2021
The Supreme Court heard a case on climate change on Tuesday that could help shape the fate of dozens of similar lawsuits across the country.
The oral argument in BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, No. 19-1189, was not about whether climate change is real or caused by greenhouse gases generated by humans. The hearing was not even about whether fossil fuel companies should pay Baltimore for the costs of climate change, which is the point of the underlying lawsuit.
As President-elect Joe Biden enters office with a Democrat-controlled Congress by his side, immigration rights advocates are calling on his administration to shift resources out of the country’s sprawling immigration enforcement system and into community services. But with billions of taxpayer dollars already earmarked for detention and deportation, and powerful political and corporate interests aligned to continue operations, Biden will face hurdles to making transformative changes, experts and advocates told Capital & Main.
Biden has already promised that “tackling our dysfunctional immigration system is among his high priorities,” according to one of his top advisers. The big question will be whether Biden is as willing as his predecessor to use his far-reaching presidential powers. “The previous administration decided that it didn’t really care about the courts or the Administrative Procedure Act or the press reaction,” said Katherine Hawkins, a senior legal analyst
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Berger Singerman Bolsters International Transaction Practice With Addition of David Camhi and Daniel Hudson
January 15, 2021 GMT
MIAMI - January 15, 2021 - ( Newswire.com )
Berger Singerman, Florida’s business law firm, is pleased to announce that David Camhi and Daniel W. Hudson have joined the firm as partners on the Business, Finance & Tax Team. They bring decades of experience to the firm’s thriving International & Cross Border Transactions practice, which assists clients with both inbound and outbound activities and transactions and provides counsel for foreign clients in planning and implementing their commercial activities in the United States.
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Shahani (r) quits, Dhania to rejoin Luthra cap markets
L&L Partners capital markets lateral partner hire Jitesh Shahani has put in his resignation; meanwhile, the firm’s ex-capital markets partner Geeta Dhania, who had left the firm two months ago, is slated to return.
2004 NLSIU Bangalore graduate Dhania had reportedly quit in October 2020, though that now appears to have turned into a de facto sabbatical from the firm.
We have reached out to Shahani and Dhania for comment.
We have also reached out to managing partner Raijv Luthra for comment, who is embroiled in a bitter dispute with senior partner and the partnership’s co-founder Mohit Saraf.