Jones Day has lost a partner in Tokyo. Tadakatsu Sano resigned for the firm two weeks ago because he is set to be the newest chief executive assistant to Yukio Hatoyama , Japan’s new Prime Minister. Sano joined Jones Day three years ago. Prior to that, he was vice minister for international affairs in Japan’s Ministry of Economy, trade, and Industry.
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Kirkland & Ellis has announced that the firm is launching a banking practice. Edwin del Hierro is leaving Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg to join Kirkland & Ellis and run the new practice. The firm has most likely based the decision on the economic downfall and its effects on banks (closing and the calls for regulation).
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Patton Boggs has hired the former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin. Martin will start in the beginning of October as co-chair of the telecommunications policy practice. He was made chairman of the FCC in 2005 and left in January of this year.
Source: www.voices.washingtonpost.com
Tags: Squire Patton BoggsTwo partners have defected from Big Law Firms: Steven Molo is leaving Shearman & Sterling and Jeff Lamken leaves Baker Botts. The two are starting their own litigation boutique called MoloLamken. The firm will have offices in New York and in Washington D.C.
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Cozen O’Connor has boosted its Los Angeles office with the hire of Nathan Dooley. Dooley joins the firm’s commercial litigation group as an associate. He was previously with Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver & Hedges, LLP.
Source: www.losangeles.dbusinessnews.com
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Robert here, writing from Hong Kong. The past week has been very busy, thus it has taken a couple of weeks to put up another post.
The number of US associate openings continues to increase in Asia, especially in Hong Kong and Greater China, and especially in now-busy capital markets groups. Two particularly special and urgent openings are for M&A 4th to 7th year associates for Shanghai and Hong Kong. The Shanghai opening, a private equity-focused position, does not require Mandarin fluency, but the Hong Kong opening, a more general M&A spot, does. I consider these openings very special opportunities for a number of reasons, including firm, supervising partner, and the realistic partnership track available in both of them. I am not going to go into great detail here, but suffice to say that I believe these are A+ positions and arguably among the best private equity/M&A spots in all of Asia. They are both extremely selective openings, will be filled soon, and the new hires will likely come from a top 10 US firm, most likely from NYC. We know both supervising partners very well and of course we are happy to fill you in on the details. I am cutting this Asia trip shorter than planned for some business in NYC next week, so can also meet in person with qualified and interested persons.
Last week, we made another placement of a US associate in Hong Kong (continuing a nice placement run of the last few months in Hong Kong and Greater China) and moved very close to placements (offers in hand) of a US partner, a US counsel and two more US associates in Hong Kong. Those successes were all expected, as they have been in the works for some time.
Robert and I spent most of last week together in Hong Kong meeting with partner-level candidates and clients. Many of these meetings were set up by our US and Asia-based recruiting back office. This week the focus is more on associate and firm client meetings. It is truly a team effort of our Asia group that allows us to have the privilege of representing so many very impressive senior attorneys, and remarkable people, in Asia. The meetings happen from three sources: a) already established personal relationships (past career consulting or recruiting for partner’s firm); b) referrals; and c) our impressive back office team of recruiters based in the US and Asia.
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Winston & Strawn has had two lateral partners land at the firm. Both partners are in the telecommunications field and join from Dewey & LeBouef. Eric Cowan, who was the chair of the telecommunications industry sector group at Dewey, will be Winston’s global chair of media and telecommunications. He will be splitting his time between the New York and London offices. Glynna Christian joins Cowan.
Source: www.nylj.com
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Law Firm Arent Fox has rescinded some of its offers to incoming associates who have yet to start at the firm. Marc Fleischaker, Chairman of Arent Fox, announced that approximately 12 associates were affected. Fleischaker explained that the firm believed it to be better to do so then to string the associates along indefinitely.
Source: www.amlawdaily.typad.com
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Jackson Lewis has recently boosted its Miami office with the hires of Devand (Dave) Sukhdeo and Terrance Woodhard. Sukhdeo joins as a partner and Woodhard joins as an associate. Sukhdeo was most recently a partner with Ogletree Deakins law firm.
Source: www.pr-inside.com
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Proskauer Rose has lost a partner from its Los Angeles office to Bingham McCutchen. Arthur Silbergeld moves to Bingham’s Santa Monica office in Southern California. Silbergeld is actually the first labor and employment partner to join the office.
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