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Covington Burling Lawyers Handle
$1.2 Billion Clear Channel Agreement
Mace Rosenstein, Eric Greenberg and Enrique Armijo were members of the Covington Burling team providing special communications regulatory counsel to Providence Equity Partners in reaching a definitive agreement to buy Clear Channel Communications' Television Group for $1.2 billion.
Rosenstein and Greenberg, partners in the firm's Washington, DC, office, focus on communications and media, corporate transactions, and mergers and acquisitions
Media giant Clear Channel is divesting 35 full-power TV stations in 24 U.S. markets, along with the stations' Web sites, Television Operations Center and the Television Group's online and wireless business manager, Inergize Digital Media.
Closing is expected toward the end of the year, if the deal clears the usual regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.
Clear Channel's Television Group consists of 10 CW, eight FOX, seven NBC, six ABC, six CBS, four My Network TV, two NBC Weather Plus, two Telemundo, five independent stations, and six stations affiliated with Clear Channel's Variety Television Network ('VTV').
Clear Channel said in a news release posted on its Web site that estimated net proceeds after-tax and customary transaction costs will be about $1.1 billion for the Television Group.
Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio-station operator, with more than 1,200 U.S. outlets, is trying to sell 448 radio stations in 88 markets, and has entered definitive agreements to sell 161 stations in 34 markets for around $331 million, the company says. Those sales are expected to close in the second half of the year.
Duane Morris e-Commerce Practitioner Is
Named IP Practice Group VP
John Herman has been appointed vice president of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Duane Morris' Atlanta office. Herman's areas of practice include e-commerce and e-discovery. He has chaired the Atlanta office's E-Discovery Task Force and is a partner in IP litigation.
Duane Morris said that among his many accolades and accomplishments, Herman is 'regularly named as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine.' He also made the publication's Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyer list.
Herman is active in the Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and the Section of Science and Technology Law of the American Bar Association, as well as in the Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment and Sports Law sections of the State Bar of Georgia. A member of the International Trademark Association, Herman frequently writes about technology and intellectual property.
The ex-leader of Pennsylvania's Senate has become a partner with the Philadelphia law firm Obermayer Rebman Maxwell & Hippel.
Robert C. Jubelirer, a Republican from Blair County in Western Penn-
sylvania, will get Obermayer Rebman's new Government Affairs Practice up and running in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, the state capital. He'll also open an office in Altoona, Blair County, where business opportunities will be developed in that part of the state, Obermayer said.
Jubelirer's 21-year collective tenure as Pennsylvania Senate president is the record for the state. He was president pro tempore from 1985 to 1992 and from 1994 through 2006. He lost an election for his ninth term in 2006.
Blank Rome attorney Stephen M. Orlofsky is vice chair of Legal Services of New Jersey, Inc. Board of Trustees. A partner in the firm's commercial litigation group, Orlofsky is based in the Cherry Hill, NJ, office.
Legal Services of New Jersey is an independent non-profit entity that orchestrates New Jersey's legal services system. Orlofsky, as vice chair, will pitch in to ensure equal access to justice to New Jerseyans, and to provide free legal help to people with low incomes seeking representation in civil matters.
Orlofsky specializes in complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, and provides clients with trial and appellate-litigation strategy. He was a U.S. district judge from 1996 to 2003 and served as a U.S. Magistrate for the Garden State from 1976 to 1980.
He is a frequent lecturer on e-discovery, professional ethics and professionalism, evidence and other topics.
Greenberg Traurig lawyers Michele L. Stocker, Jaret L. Davis and Glenn A Harris were recently featured in profiles in the first edition of Who's Who in Black South Florida.
Stocker, based in the Fort Lauderdale office, heads the law firm's Financial Services Litigation Group, handling individual and class consumer actions for state and federal regulatory compliance.
Davis does U.S. and international corporate work. He handles public- and private-company mergers and acquisitions, compliance with securities law and various general contractual concerns. Davis is based in Miami.
Harris, a specialist in business and commercial law who also does arbitrations, is general counsel in the Miami office. Prior to joining Traurig Green, Harris was Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission's offices in Washington and Miami.
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, a Memphis firm well recognized for its work in healthcare law, announced recently that one of its attorneys, Philip
S. McSween, was named an Out-standing Physician Practice Lawyer by Nightengale's Healthcare News, a newsletter published for executives and professionals working in and for the healthcare industry. He was one of 10 lawyers on the list.
McSween, based in the firm's Nashville office, represents non-profit and for-profit hospitals, doctor groups and other types of healthcare providers, such as those dealing in specialty medicine, across the nation. Mergers and acquisitions, along with joint ventures, constitute the focus of his practice.
McSween is a member of the Tennessee Health Lawyers Assoc- iation and the American Health Lawyers Association, according to Baker, Donelson.
Another Nashville Baker, Donelson attorney, Joel R. Buckberg, was recently named a Legal Eagle by the national franchisor and multi-unit franchisor publication Franchise Times.
Buckberg heads the firm's franchise and hospitality practice groups. He provides counsel to corporate clients on operations and transactions concerning assets. Hospitality, franchising and distribution are main points of his practice.
Buckberg is active in the International Franchise Association, the Franchise Compliance Training Program of which he was recently appointed administrator. The program teaches and helps companies comply with sales and disclosure regulations.
In addition to training franchisees around the nation, he participated on a panel addressing changes to the Federal Trade Commission's rules on franchisor disclosure documents and procedures at the Association's Legal Symposium in May in Washington.
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, in Chicago, recently donated laptops to an orphanage in Zambia, Africa. Laura Janson, a graduate student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL, and a former legal assistant at Brinks Hofer, took the computers to the orphanage during spring break. Janson helped during her visit at the orphanage, where children with HIV and AIDS are cared for, and presented the laptops to the facility on the law firm's behalf. The firm said that the computers, which were reconditioned, will help some of the older children at the orphanage train for jobs.
$1.2 Billion Clear Channel Agreement
Mace Rosenstein, Eric Greenberg and Enrique Armijo were members of the
Rosenstein and Greenberg, partners in the firm's Washington, DC, office, focus on communications and media, corporate transactions, and mergers and acquisitions
Media giant Clear Channel is divesting 35 full-power TV stations in 24 U.S. markets, along with the stations' Web sites, Television Operations Center and the Television Group's online and wireless business manager, Inergize Digital Media.
Closing is expected toward the end of the year, if the deal clears the usual regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.
Clear Channel's Television Group consists of 10 CW, eight FOX, seven NBC, six ABC, six CBS, four My Network TV, two NBC Weather Plus, two Telemundo, five independent stations, and six stations affiliated with Clear Channel's Variety Television Network ('VTV').
Clear Channel said in a news release posted on its Web site that estimated net proceeds after-tax and customary transaction costs will be about $1.1 billion for the Television Group.
Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio-station operator, with more than 1,200 U.S. outlets, is trying to sell 448 radio stations in 88 markets, and has entered definitive agreements to sell 161 stations in 34 markets for around $331 million, the company says. Those sales are expected to close in the second half of the year.
Named IP Practice Group VP
John Herman has been appointed vice president of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at
Herman is active in the Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and the Section of Science and Technology Law of the American Bar Association, as well as in the Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment and Sports Law sections of the State Bar of Georgia. A member of the International Trademark Association, Herman frequently writes about technology and intellectual property.
The ex-leader of Pennsylvania's Senate has become a partner with the Philadelphia law firm
Robert C. Jubelirer, a Republican from Blair County in Western Penn-
sylvania, will get Obermayer Rebman's new Government Affairs Practice up and running in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, the state capital. He'll also open an office in Altoona, Blair County, where business opportunities will be developed in that part of the state, Obermayer said.
Jubelirer's 21-year collective tenure as Pennsylvania Senate president is the record for the state. He was president pro tempore from 1985 to 1992 and from 1994 through 2006. He lost an election for his ninth term in 2006.
Legal Services of New Jersey is an independent non-profit entity that orchestrates New Jersey's legal services system. Orlofsky, as vice chair, will pitch in to ensure equal access to justice to New Jerseyans, and to provide free legal help to people with low incomes seeking representation in civil matters.
Orlofsky specializes in complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, and provides clients with trial and appellate-litigation strategy. He was a U.S. district judge from 1996 to 2003 and served as a U.S. Magistrate for the Garden State from 1976 to 1980.
He is a frequent lecturer on e-discovery, professional ethics and professionalism, evidence and other topics.
Stocker, based in the Fort Lauderdale office, heads the law firm's Financial Services Litigation Group, handling individual and class consumer actions for state and federal regulatory compliance.
Davis does U.S. and international corporate work. He handles public- and private-company mergers and acquisitions, compliance with securities law and various general contractual concerns. Davis is based in Miami.
Harris, a specialist in business and commercial law who also does arbitrations, is general counsel in the Miami office. Prior to joining Traurig Green, Harris was Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission's offices in Washington and Miami.
S. McSween, was named an Out-standing Physician Practice Lawyer by Nightengale's Healthcare News, a newsletter published for executives and professionals working in and for the healthcare industry. He was one of 10 lawyers on the list.
McSween, based in the firm's Nashville office, represents non-profit and for-profit hospitals, doctor groups and other types of healthcare providers, such as those dealing in specialty medicine, across the nation. Mergers and acquisitions, along with joint ventures, constitute the focus of his practice.
McSween is a member of the Tennessee Health Lawyers Assoc- iation and the American Health Lawyers Association, according to
Another Nashville
Buckberg heads the firm's franchise and hospitality practice groups. He provides counsel to corporate clients on operations and transactions concerning assets. Hospitality, franchising and distribution are main points of his practice.
Buckberg is active in the International Franchise Association, the Franchise Compliance Training Program of which he was recently appointed administrator. The program teaches and helps companies comply with sales and disclosure regulations.
In addition to training franchisees around the nation, he participated on a panel addressing changes to the Federal Trade Commission's rules on franchisor disclosure documents and procedures at the Association's Legal Symposium in May in Washington.
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