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Baker Sterchi recently achieved a favorable result for their engineering design professional client in a million-dollar-plus property damage dispute pending in Greene County, Missouri. The case involved an insurance company plaintiff seeking to hold their client accountable for damages resulting from a brick façade detachment incident at a luxury apartment complex. This incident caused extensive d…

Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms, recently selected three diverse law school students to receive $2,500 diversity scholarships based on their submissions to the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) essay program. In the face of strong competition and a rigorous selection process, Jasmine Bouche, Zarghoona Sakhi and Frances Silney-Bah were sele…

In a major victory for defendants related to the Illinois Biometric Information Act (BIPA) U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois has vacated a $228 million damages award in Richard Rogers v. BNSF Railway Co., the first case tried to a verdict under the Illinois BIPA.  Judge Kennelly ordered a new jury trial limited to the question of damages. (Click to down…

Hall & Evans attorneys Valerie Garcia and Andrew Figel obtained a defense judgment at the close of Plaintiffs’ case in El Paso County District Court, in favor of our client, a homeowners association, and against plaintiffs, on seven out of eight claims for declaratory and injunctive relief, and on breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claims. Because this was a be…

Two McNees Wallace & Nurick attorneys have accepted community leadership positions. Anne Zerbe, an employment attorney, joined the York College of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees. Public finance attorney Frannie Reilly joined the Villanova Law Women’s Network Outreach Committee, a group of volunteers from across class years who encourage the professional and personal…

Morgan & Morgan provided legal counsel to Inversiones Inmobiliarias Casas Grandes, SA (“Casas Grandes”), as sponsor, in the constitution and registration before the the Superintendence of the Securities Market of Panama (the Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores or “SMV” ), of FIDEICOMISO INMOBILIARIO CASAS GRANDES, as a Sociedad de Inversión Inmobiliaria (the Panamanian equivalent of a Real…

Morgan & Morgan represented Greenwood Energy Central America Corp. (“Greenwood”), in the financing for the development, construction and commissioning of a power generation plant of up to 40 MWp, made up of four (4) photovoltaic solar plants, located in David, Chiriquí, for the sale of renewable energy to the University of Panama (the “Project”). The financing, which was granted by Global Bank…

Morgan & Morgan advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“FQM”) in the offering and issuance of its $1,300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior notes due 2031 (the “Notes”). The issuance of the Notes is of great importance to FQM, as it represented a financing condition for FQM to partially redeem its outstanding 7.5000% Senior Notes due 2025. Partners Inocencio Galindo and Aristide…

1. Overview and significance of the case We advised a client in connection with the development of Korea's largest hyperscale data center (120MW) in Incheon, which is being developed with a syndicated loan from overseas lenders in the amount of KRW 440 billion.Despite the challenging environment for PF loans in Korea, several domestic and overseas lenders expressed their intention to partic…

Plunkett Cooney attorneys Danielle Chidiac and Claire D. Vergara were recently named to the Lawyers of Color (LoC) magazine 2023 Annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Hot List. Based on peer nominations, the DEI Hot List annually recognizes junior- and mid-level attorneys across the country who show promise in their careers and demonstrate a strong commitment to advancing diversity in th…