Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer today signed into law a bill that eliminates the state’s six percent sales tax on menstrual products, ending a multi-year legislative effort and a class action lawsuit that challenged the legality of the sales and use tax.
Schiff Hardin LLP served as underwriter’s counsel for Deep Medicine Acquisition Corp.’s upsized initial public offering raising gross proceeds of $126.5 million.
Schiff Hardin LLP represented the underwriters in Biofrontera Inc.’s $18 million initial public offering of 3,600,000 units.
Arent Fox Sports Practice Leader Richard L. Brand, Corporate & Securities Leader Steven A. Cohen, and Sports and Corporate & Securities Partner William Z. Ordower have been named Power Players by Sports Business Journal in their rankings of the sports industry’s best outside counsel.
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Arent Fox Diversity Scholarship. Each second-year law student will receive a $20,000 award and participate in the firm’s 2022 Summer Program.
Schiff Hardin LLP has been recognized by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) with two awards: the Compass Award for the third year in a row, and for the first time, the firm has been named a Top Performer.
Schiff Hardin today announced the expansion of its Corporate and Transactional Practice Group with the addition of counsel Andrew Banks in New York and associates Darcy Lee and Cody Boender in Chicago.
Schiff Hardin LLP guided SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp., a Houston-based special purpose acquisition company focused on transactions in the sports tech space, in its $115 million initial public offering.
Arent Fox is honored to again be recognized by The M&A Advisor as an industry leader and winner of Distressed M&A Deal of The Year ($100MM to $250MM) for its work on The Sale of Rubie's Costume Company, Inc. and its U.S. based Affiliates at The 15th Annual Turnaround Awards.
Arent Fox is pleased to announce the expansion of its Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice with the addition of Partner Brett D. Goodman. Brett represents creditors’ committees, indenture trustees and agents, debtors, asset purchasers, lessors, and property owners in bankruptcy proceedings
Schiff Hardin LLP advised Cresset Asset Management, LLC in its merger with Berman Capital Advisors, LLC, creating a $19.8 billion multi-family office serving clients from 11 offices across the country.
In September 2021, Schiff Hardin LLP advised the new owners in the management buyout of the Beer Shop in downtown Oak Park, Ill.
Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that four attorneys have been named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list for 2021.
Schiff Hardin has been ranked “Recommended” by LMG Life Sciences in the Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation (Generic) category of its 2021 guide.
Schiff Hardin LLP today announced the expansion of its Private Clients, Trusts and Estates group with the addition of Christopher Floss as counsel in the firm’s north suburban Lake Forest, Ill. office.
Schiff has advised BK Medical in entering into an agreement to be sold to GE Healthcare for $1.45 billion.
Schiff is pleased to announce that Partner Joanne Faycurry has been elected to become a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC).
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has achieved Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Certification for the second year in a row. The goal of the Mansfield Rule is to boost the representation of minority lawyers in law firm leadership by broadening the pool of candidates considered
For the third consecutive year, Schiff Hardin LLP has achieved Mansfield Certified Plus status in 2021, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to increasing diversity within the leadership ranks.
Schiff Hardin LLP is proud to announce the firm’s support for Task Force Melmastya, a national pro bono initiative started by Schiff Partner and Army Green Beret Mir Ali, to provide free legal assistance to Afghans trying to escape to the United States.
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce its 2021 class of AF Fellows. This group of talented attorneys will soon begin the three-year leadership development program designed to help foster leadership skills and forge lasting relationships across the firm.
Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce it has joined the Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the ties of friendship between the Japanese, American, and Canadian people in the Greater Detroit and Windsor area.
Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce its membership in the Family Wealth Alliance (FWA), a multifamily wealth organization whose member firms serve approximately 7,000 private families around the country and advise on approximately $2.5 trillion of assets.
Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Partner Adam Diederich has been named among Crain's Chicago Business' Notable Rising Stars in Law for 2021.