Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Mark D. Hopson, a member of the firm’s Management and Executive Committees, will assume the role of Managing Partner of the firm’s 275 lawyer Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Hopson succeeds Carter G. Phillips, who previously served in that role, who is becoming the Co-Chair of Sidley’s Executive Committee, effective May 1, 2012.
The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce that Titus Noltenius, a lawyer practicing in the area of real estate and investment law, will shortly join the Firm as an associate in the Frankfurt Office. Mr. Noltenius is the former general counsel of Aberdeen Asset Management Deutschland AG, where - among other responsibilities - he was in charge of the DEGI fund family. Most recently he held a senior position as in-house counsel with the German Association of Investment and Asset Manageme...
Seventeen Washington Office partners of global law firm Jones Day have been named 2012 DC Super Lawyers.
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP advised Lafarge S.A., a world leader in building materials, in obtaining UK Competition Commission approval for its proposed construction materials joint venture with Anglo American plc. The joint venture will combine both parties' cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt and contracting businesses in the United Kingdom.
