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• The Public Law Project Wales Conference 2012, 4th April 2012

  Joanne Clement will be speaking at The Public Law Project Wales Conference 2012 on 4th April 2012. This is the fourth annual PLP conference in Wales which this year will be opening by John Wotton, President of the Law Society. The programme includes plenary sessions on The top ten judicial review cases in Wales, Litigating the cuts, and The tribunal system in Wales as well as a panel discussion on Public law in a future Wales. Seminar topics include:
  - 11KBW

• WKB as content partner at the seminar ‘Optimisation of employment costs in respect of employees...

  and managers’
  - WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr Sp. k.

• Carey Olsen’s superior HR strategy wins at HR Distinction Awards 2012

  Carey Olsen’s strategic approach to human resources (HR) has been praised at the UK national HR Distinction Awards 2012, which were held in Birmingham on 24 January, when the Channel Islands law firm was awarded the prize for Distinction in Added Value.
  - Carey Olsen

• DCC Energy acquires Swea Energi Holding AB

  DCC Energy has agreed to acquire the Swedish company Swea Energi Holding AB from Viviann and Lennart Hansson for an initial purchase price of SEK 205 million. Completion of the acquisition is conditional on competition approval from the European Commission.
  - Mannheimer Swartling

• Mannheimer Swartling sponsors scholarship programme for Chinese law graduates to study arbitration l

  Mannheimer Swartling is pleased to announce its participation in a scholarship programme that will allow three Chinese law students to participate in The Master of International Commercial Arbitration Law programme (ICAL) at Stockholm University. Mannheimer Swartling is joined by Swedish law firms, Gernandt & Danielsson and Vinge, in donating the scholarships.
  - Mannheimer Swartling

• Two new partners

  BCCC has the great pleasure to announce two new partners, Stéphanie Fuld and Thomas Goossens , as of January 1st, 2012:
  - BCCC Attorneys-at-law LLC

• Hiroya Ito and Yuichiro Nukada contributed to the publishing of the January issue of Corporate Intl

  Our special counsel, Hiroya Ito, and our partner, Yuichiro Nukada was involved as the exclusive expert from Japan in the Round Table feature on Real Estate, which was published in the January 2012 issue of Corporate Intl.
  - Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

• AstapovLawyers protects the interests of the OBI hypermarket chain in court

  The lawyers of AstapovLawyers International Law Group have successfully protected the interests of Do It Yourself Ukraine LLC, a company operating a hypermarket chain under the brand OBI, in the Kyiv Commercial Court.
  - Astapov Lawyers International Law Group

• Yoshimasa Furuta's comment regarding nuclear power damage compensation published on the website...

  article by The Asian Lawyer
  - Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

• Lidings strengthens its practice of supporting international airlines in Russia

  Lidings, the leading Russian law firm, dedicated to advising foreign companies on all aspects of Russian law uses its expertise to develop strong aviation practice oriented to support international airlines in Russia.
  - Lidings Law Firm