March 1, 2010
Cameron LLP Bolsters IP Practice with Addition of A New Attorney
Cameron LLP is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Pignatello has joined the firm as Of Counsel, bringing additional depth and a wealth of experience to its Intellectual Property practice. Ms. Pignatello is based in the Firm's Washington, DC office.
Elizabeth Pignatello is a former trademark examining attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Her intellectual property law practice focuses on the prosecution of domestic and foreign trademark applications for registration and assisting clients in various related matters, including trademark availability and selection, maintenance of existing trademarks, opposition proceedings, consent agreements, settlement agreements and resolution of trademark disputes. Elizabeth represents clients in a wide range of industries in registering and protecting their trademarks. She has particular expertise in the pharmaceuticals, chemicals, technology and medical devices sectors. Elizabeth also maintains an active corporate and securities law practice concentrating on securities regulation and compliance. In this capacity, she counsels clients in connection with the sale of restricted securities, debt conversion, drafting of private placement memoranda and various other matters. In addition to being Of Counsel to Cameron LLP, Elizabeth is the owner and principal of the Law Office of Elizabeth Pignatello, PLLC.
"We are very excited that Elizabeth has joined our team," said Stephen L. Humphrey, head of Cameron LLP's Intellectual Property practice. "The addition of Ms. Pignatello, with her extensive domestic and international experience, will enable Cameron LLP to provide its clients with a full array of legal services in the intellectual property field."
January 5, 2010
Cameron LLP Appointed Transaction Advisor for the Privatisation of SamoaTel Limited
Cameron LLP, led by partner Tom Skilton, has been appointed by the Government of Samoa (GoS) as international counsel in connection with its planned privatization of SamoaTel Limited, a 100% wholly owned telecommunications company of the GoS. Cameron is part of a team of transaction advisors, lead by Nathan Associates, Inc. and also including SINTRA Consulting Inc. and Stevensons Lawyers (Apia, Samoa). The project is a component of the Government of Samoa’s plans for enterprise reform and privatisation of nonstrategic public enterprises, and is being undertaken in conjunction with the World Bank Telecommunications Sector Project.
November 24-25, 2009
Cameron LLP Co-Sponsors U.S. - Romania Forum on Trade and Project Finance at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Cameron LLP partner Stephen Humphrey assisted in organizing and moderated a U.S. - Romania Forum on Trade and Project Finance presented at the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on November 24-25, 2009. The program featured speakers from the U.S. Chamber, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the International Finance Corporation, a part of the World Bank.
If you would like more information about the program or about trade with or investments in Romania, please contact Mr. Humphrey at shumphrey@cameronllp.com.
For more information about Cameron LLP's Project Finance Practice please click here.
October 30, 2009
Cameron LLP Announces Affiliation with Smithfield Partners of London, England
Cameron LLP is pleased to announce its affiliation with the Smithfield Partners law firm based in London, UK.
With its prominent litigation, corporate, property and employment law practices, Smithfield Partners gives Cameron LLP an improved capability of providing seamless cross-border representation for our U.S. and international clients with business in the financial center of London, as well as in the rest of the UK and Europe.
Dennis James, Managing Partner of Cameron LLP welcomes the alliance: "Several of our attorneys have worked with Smithfield Partners' lawyers closely on projects with great results. Smithfields is similar to Cameron LLP in its philosophy: offering clients large firm expertise with a high degree of partner contact at attractive rates. We are enthusiastic about this more formal relationship, viewing it as an opportunity to provide our clients with effective, cost-efficient representation in London."
For more information about Smithfield Partners, please visit their website at: http://www.smithfieldpartners.com.
October 15, 2009
Firm Co-Sponsors MWTCI Program on Investment in the Gaeltacht
On 15 October 2009, in conjunction with the Maryland World Trade Center Institute and Udaras na Gaeltachta, the Irish government agency charged with promoting economic development in the Gaeltacht (those areas of Ireland where the Irish language remains in community use), the Firm sponsored a program, Introducing the Gaeltacht in Ireland: Maryland's Business Gateway to Europe, in Bethesda, Maryland. Kevin O'Connell chaired the program.
In addition to detailed presentations by Udaras' chief executive, Padraig O hAolain, and Jim Keogh, senior vice-president of the Enterprise & Employment Division of Udaras, the program included remarks by Laurence Simms, First Secretary of the Embassy of Ireland in Washington, Seamus Carroll of IDA Ireland's New York office and Liam Keane, CEO of EcoEmergence, a Washington, D.C.-area company which recently established a subsidiary in the Galway Gaeltacht.
The Firm has seen that, in the wake of the global economic upheavals of the last year, a number of Middle Atlantic U.S. companies are displaying an increased awareness of and a renewed interest in the European Union, many viewing the Greater EU market as being, in many ways, as or more significant to them than China or India.
Recognizing this, and strongly believing in the unique benefits that Ireland, especially its Gaeltacht region, offers to EU-bound American companies, The Firm, in conjunction with our colleagues in London, has committed resources and expertise towards assisting these companies to enter the Irish market, as well as to utilize Ireland, significantly the locations within the Gaeltacht, as their EU regional base.
For information on this initiative and/or any aspects of foreign direct-investment in Ireland in general, and the Gaeltacht in particular, please visit www.udaras.ie and feel free to contact Kevin M. O'Connell at 410 268 3880 and/or via e-mail, kmoc@oconnellcohongkong.com.
September 1, 2009
Cameron LLP Participates in Trade Case Victory
Cameron LLP represented the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in an important victory with significant implications for dispute
settlement under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The case, Canadian Wheat Board v. United States, successfully
challenged the United States' refusal to properly implement the ruling of a binational panel under NAFTA Chapter 19. In refusing
to give full effect to the NAFTA panel's ruling, the United States had called into question the efficacy of the NAFTA dispute
settlement system. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in favor of the Canadian parties and ordered the United States to
implement retroactive as well as prospective relief. Cameron LLP partner Michele Sherman Davenport represented Saskatchewan in
this proceeding.