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Perkins Coie attorneys Phillip Gordon, Alexandra Cole, Ed Wicks, Jaclyn McNally and Suleen Lee represented the owners in the sale of Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels & Resorts LLC hotel management company and five North American properties under Rosewood management for $800 million to China-based New World Hospitality and individual investors.

According to the influential FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog, "these articles fill a valuable niche for the compliance practitioner. I hope that you will review and use them in your practice going forward."

T. Markus Funk was interviewed and quoted by the Denver Post in an article examining the global phenomenon of trafficking in human beings and the nexus between organized crime and this particular form of exploitation.

Perkins Coie announced today that Jean-Jacques “J” Cabou has joined the firm in Phoenix as Partner in the Investigations & White Collar Defense practice. He joins the firm from Osborn Maledon, P.A.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Nick Milano has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. as Of Counsel in the Investment Management practice.

Advocates for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities filed a class action lawsuit against the Governor of Oregon and other state officials. The lawsuit, which was filed on January 25 in US District Court in Oregon, alleges these officials are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the federal Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide supported employment services to more than 2,300 state residents who are instead segregated in sheltered workshops where they perform mundane, rote tasks for sub-minimum wages.

Perkins Coie announced that Dana Krawczuk joined the firm’s Portland office as Of Counsel in the Real Estate and Land Use practice. She joins the firm from Ball Janik LLP.

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Judge Posner, author of nearly 40 books and widely considered one of the world's most distinguished scholars, described Funk and Kendall's Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses as “a milestone on the road to improved policy in this difficult and important area, this book will be an invaluable resource to judges, prosecutors, police, policymakers, criminologists, and the defense bar.”

For the 10th consecutive year, Perkins Coie is proud to announce that it has been named to FORTUNE magazine's list of "The 100 Best Places to Work For." This year the firm was ranked 58. The full list and any related stories appear in the February 6 issue of FORTUNE and at www.fortune.com/bestcompanies.

Partner T. Markus Funk was featured in an ABC-7 report on the guilty pleas of Jerry Scalise and Robert Pullia

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Judy Jennison, Michael Scoville and Karl Klassen have joined the firm in Seattle.

Perkins Coie is proud to announce the launch of a new blog, Groundbreaking Law. The blog provides insights on design and construction topics such as statutory and regulatory changes, recent court opinions, sustainable and green building, BIM, insurance and project delivery methods.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Gary Eisenberg has joined the firm’s New York office as Partner in the firm’s Financial Transactions & Restructuring practice. He joins the firm from Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

Perkins Coie announced today that Jose Lopez has joined the firm's Chicago office as Partner in the Securities Litigation practice. Previously, he served as Partner at Schopf & Weiss and prior to that was a Senior Attorney at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement.

Pravin Rao was quoted in Law360 on the SEC's new position on no longer settling cases with "neither admit nor deny" language where there's already been admissions to or convictions of parallel criminal offenses.

Funk and Trombino in their article break down the form, function, and flow of the  FCPA and the UK Bribery Act.

Perkins Coie announced that 12 attorneys have been named Partner and five have been named Of Counsel effective January 1, 2012.

Perkins Coie announced today that three new finance attorneys have joined the firm’s Chicago office. Dan Coyne and Jim Carroll join as Partners and Christine Biebel joins as Of Counsel. All three join from O’Keefe Lyons & Hynes, LLC. The new attorneys specialize in the representation of healthcare and other nonprofit organizations in their financial transactions. 

T. Markus Funk and M. Bridget Minder author "Bribery of Foreign Officials: The FCPA in 2011 and Beyond: Is Targeted FCPA Reform Really the “Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time”? in the Bloomberg Law Reports. The in-depth piece not only summarizes 2011 enforcement trends, but also addresses the arguments raised against the growing call for targeted FCPA reform.

Pravin Rao was quoted in Law360 on the future of Whistleblower and Hedge Fund Enforcement in 2012.

High-visibility outlets, including the FCPA Professor ("This is a very useful one-stop chart for anyone involved in FCPA issues or likely to encounter foreign bribery issues"), the FCPA Blog ("Travel Act bribery cases made simple . . . an excellent tool"), and the White Collar Crime Prof Blog ("[C]aptures the essence of the FCPA . . . It's terrific"), have posted Perkins Coie partner T. Markus Funk's FCPA/Travel Act Decision Tree.

The White Collar Crime Prof Blog published Perkins Coie Partner and ABA Global Anti-Corruption Task Force Co-Chair T. Markus Funk's novel and practical UK Bribery Act decision tree/"cheat sheet" and chart comparing the anti-bribery laws of the US, UK, China, and India describing it as "extraordinary."

Bob Miller and Stephanie Dunn, Denver Litigation Partners, were recently named to Law Week Colorado’s Lawyers of the Year in Big Verdict Cases list.

Chicago Hotels & Leisure industry Co-Chair David Neff was quoted in the December 22 HotelNewsNow, "Hotel credit bidding draws Supreme Court's eye," article that looks at the highly anticipated credit bidding decision in the case of Radlax Gateway Hotel LLC and Radlax Gateway Deck LLC v. Amalgamated Bank, which is expected to be heard by the Supreme Court in April.

Portland Partner Julia Markley was appointed by Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to serve on their Judicial Selection Committee which will recommend candidates to President Obama for nomination as a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Julia is among a 13-member selection committee appointed to screen candidates for federal judicial vacancies in the state.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Jacob Farber has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the firm’s Licensing & Technology practice. He joins the firm in Washington, D.C. where he previously served as Counsel at Dickstein Shapiro.

Perkins Coie is pleased to have been named as a recipient of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's (NLADA) 2011 Beacon of Justice Award

"[Providing] a resource regarding not only victims, but various sex crimes, the court system, defense strategies and computer techniques perpetrators use to hide information, as well as how law enforcement can find it."

Fred Rivera, Perkins Coie Partner and Co-chair of the firm's Financial Services Litigation & Investigations practice, was featured on NPR's national radio show Marketplace. The story, which ran nationally on NPR stations, is on the Marketplace website as "Senate Republicans Block Cordray Nomination to CFPB." 

Perkins Coie LLP is proud to announce that it has earned the top rating of 100 percent in the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and Best Places to Work 2012, an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, in an article titled "Blago Faces Nearly $22K in Court Penalties," quoted T. Markus Funk on how and when federal judges typically impose fines on convicted defendants such as former Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich.

The Associated Press, in an article entitled, "Support, doubts greet stiff Blagojevich sentence" quoted Investigations & White Collar Defense partner, Joel Levin, on the 14-year prison sentence imposed on former Governor Rod Blagojevich for corruption.

Perkins Coie was ranked within the top 10 busiest firms overall in the 2011 Corporate Counsel Patent Litigation Survey. The firm ranked 7th in overall cases, up from 18 in 2010, with 54 district court cases. For the defense, the firm ranked 5th, up from 14 in 2010, with 47 cases.

InsideCounsel, in an article titled "Data shows that companies lose a week's earnings to fraud every year" quoted partner T. Markus Funk throughout the article addressing the quantifiable impact of fraud on companies' bottom line. The story ran in the December 2011 issue of InsideCounsel.

Perkins Coie’s Denver office has seen a 40 percent growth with the addition of 13 attorneys in 2011. In January 2011, to accommodate the expected growth, the Denver office relocated to a larger office space located at 1900 Sixteenth Street.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Michael Dunning has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Seattle office in the Environment, Energy & Resources practice.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Christine A. Williams has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice. She joins the firm in Los Angeles from Northrop Grumman Corporation, where she previously served as Senior Counsel.

New York Bankruptcy Partner Schuyler Carroll was quoted in the November 17 "Solyndra pushes off auction for lack of bids," The Deal Pipeline article. The story explores why bankrupt solar panel company Solyndra received no bids by their deadline leading it to push back auction. Schuyler offers insight as to why even though there was initial interest from several parties, in the end there were no bidders for Solyndra.

Information regarding our 2012 1L Diversity Fellowship program is now available on our website, located here. There, students can find information about the fellowship including application deadlines and requirements. A list of commonly asked questions about the fellowship can be found here.

The Chicago Tribune has named Perkins Coie's Chicago office as one the Top Workplaces of 2011. The Tribune survey of the best work places in Chicago placed Perkins Coie 19th among all area businesses with fewer than 250 employees. Perkins was one of only two law firms of any size on the Chicago Tribune list, which honored more than 100 Chicago area companies.

Perkins Coie announced today that Deborah Gutfeld has joined the firm’s Chicago office as Of Counsel in the Bankruptcy practice. She joins the firm from Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP.

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