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Milbank Tweed Hires Capital Markets Lawyer in Tokyo |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Capital markets lawyer Bradley Edmister has joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Tokyo office as Counsel. He comes from Sullivan & Cromwell, with whom he had for eight years, five of which were in Tokyo. Edmister has extensive experience in a variety of corporate matters including M&A, capital markets, finance, private equity, and joint ventures. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Milbank was the first American firm to open in Japan. Its other Asian offices are located in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Source: www.antara.co.id |
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King & Spalding Launches Riyadh Office |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
By affiliating with the Law Offices of Mohammed Al-Ammar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King & Spalding has opened a new office in Riyadh. Tariq Abbadi, formerly of Baker Botts, will join the new office as of counsel. He focuses on corporate and Saudi regulatory work. King & Spalding also opened an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December; the office now has eight lawyers.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Sills Cummis Epstein Moves to New NYC Office |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross, based in Newark, NJ, has moved its New York City office from 30 Rockefeller Plaza to One Rockefeller Plaza. The new 20,000 square foot office houses all 16 attorneys and 19 support staff on the 25th floor. This office is larger and allowed the firm the option of building new quarters from raw space. It features four conference rooms and a reception area with a hanging glass projection panel. The 165-lawyer firm also has an office in Princeton, NJ.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Lateral Hire to White & Case's NY Securities Practice |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
White & Case has hired securities lawyer, Mariel Creo, for its New York office. Creo has an extensive background in a variety of complex corporate and finance transactions in Latin America and Europe. She also has experience in leveraged finance, private placements, high-yield bond offerings and debt restructurings, as well as private equity investment funds with Latin American investments. Creo is a valuable lateral hire for the firm, as she will help to bolster the multi-office, cross-border capabilities offered to clients. With offices in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Sao Paulo, White & Case has one of the leading Latin American law practices. Besides Creo, the firm already added eight other securities partners this year.
Source: www.marketwire.com |
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Weil Gotshal Snags Mayer Brown Employment Partner |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Gary Friedman has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges' New York employment team as a partner. Prior to joining Weil Gotshal, Friedman was the head of employment at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. He has tried cases before the New York Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. Last fall a four-partner litigation team from Mayer Brown New York also departed the firm, joining Morrison & Foerster in California.
Source: www.legalweek.com |
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Kaye Scholer International Trade Group Joins Troutman Sanders |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Troutman Sanders' Washington office has recruited Kaye Scholer's 11-person international trade practice. The firm has wanted to expand this practice, which formerly was comprised of only a couple of partners. Donald Cameron Jr. and Julie Mendoza, who join as partners, will continue to co-lead the group. Jeffrey Grimson also joins as a partner. Three additional lawyers, two non-lawyers, and three paralegals are also a part of the team. Counsel Judy Wang will work in Shanghai, and accountant Victor Wu will remain in Beijing. This group focuses its practice on federal anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
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Atlanta Boutique Founders Leave for Troutman Sanders |
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Daryll Love and Allen Willingham, the founders of Love Willingham Peters Gilleland & Monyak, have left their firm for Troutman Sanders. Willingham joins Troutman as a partner and Love joins as of counsel. The two attorneys left Powell Goldstein in 1988 to form the Atlanta boutique that handles products liability defense, complex business litigation and legal malpractice. They left the boutique for a larger firm seeking opportunities to land larger litigation matters, especially in products liability. Their former firm has been renamed Peters Monyak, and will continue in the same type of work.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Day Pitney Forms Alliance with Minority-Owned Firm |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Day Pitney announced this week its new alliance with the minority-owned corporate law boutique, Gray Haile. The firms will maintain independence, but will co-counsel on transactions when needed and will pursue new business opportunities together as well. For Gray Haile, having the services and resources of a 9-office, 400-lawyer firm will allow it to expand its client base and go after larger transactions. Serving as co-counsel for a sizable pool of corporate clients, Day Pitney aims to become those clients' choice of firm when they need representation in another practice area. The alliance is also especially beneficial for Day Pitney because of the boost it gives to the firm's minority lawyer numbers.
Source: wwww.law.com |
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Sutherland Asbill Recruits Paul Hastings Outsourcing/Systems Integration Team |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has gained eight lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Partners Scott Hobby, Charles Hollis, III, Derek Johnston and John Miller, Jr., along with Counsel Timothy Dodson and three associates, will join noted technology and licensing Partner Peter Quittmeyer to create a new Outsourcing/Systems Integration practice within Sutherland’s Corporate Group. Hobby will chair the new practice. This Outsourcing/Sysytems Integration practice has over 20 years experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting domestic and offshore outsourcing services arrangements. Sutherland has over 450 lawyers in offices in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, New York, Tallahassee and Washington.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Sidley Austin is ready to open a new Australia office after hiring Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Sydney office managing partner, Bob Meyers. The Sydney office will open May 1, becoming the firm's sixth office in the Asia Pacific region after offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Meyers, who will head the new office, advises Australian, New Zealand and US companies and investment banks on stock market listings, M&A and structured finance. He will join the firm's corporate finance and capital markets practice.
Source: www.legalweek.com |
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Hogan & Hartson's Denver Managing Partner Departs for UnitedHealth |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Hogan & Hartson's Denver managing partner, Tom Strickland, is leaving to become the chief legal officer of UnitedHealth Group, Inc., one of the firm's clients. At United, Strickland will address issues within the national healthcare debate such as the rising cost of healthcare and the senior's market. Strickland was a former U.S. attorney, and a two-time Democratic candidate for the Senate. Cole Finegan will fill Strickland's shoes at Hogan & Hartson's Denver office. As a former Denver city attorney, Finegan re-organized the city attorney's office of 100 attorneys, which saved the city more than $1 million.
Source: www.bizjournals.com |
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Venable Recruits Lateral for NY Real Esate Practice |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Ralph Miles has joined Venable's New York office, where he will chair the New York Real Estate Group. He joins from McCarter & English, where he was a partner in real estate and public finance groups. Miles has close to thirty years of experience in real estate finance, development, leasing and real estate bankruptcies and restructurings. Since Venable's New York office opening in 2005, the firm has been working to grow its real estate practice.
Source: www.dsnews.com |
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Foley & Lardner Applies for Shanghai Office |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Foley & Lardner announced that it has filed an application to open an office in Shanghai. Catherine Sun, a partner from Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Shanghai office, was hired to head Foley's Shanghai office, assuming that it will be approved. The new office will focus on intellectual property, specifically IP counseling and dispute resolution. Clients will also need the firm's help with IP asset management, licensing, and litigation. Joining Sun in Shanghai will be seven other Foley attorneys, including three Chinese nationals. The Shanghai office would be Foley's second in Asia, following the Tokyo location that opened in 2003.
Source: www.prnewswire.com |
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San Fran Firm Loses Top Land Use Lawyer to Luce, Forward |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has recruited hot-shot land use lawyer, Timothy Tosta, from Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Tosta will join the San Francisco office, along with four other real estate attorneys from Steefel. Tosta's departure adds to the number of partner losses Steefel has faced in the past year; the firm's attorney headcount is now at 50. Most of the lawyers who have left have gone to larger national firms. Luce, Forward has 200 attorneys and five offices in California, though it plans to expand further into the Bay Area and Los Angeles. It's 21-lawyer San Francisco office focuses on real estate, bankruptcy, and business and real estate litigation.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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NY Lateral Hires, Firms Gain IP Litigators |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Peter J. Toren of Sidley Austin has been recruited by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman in New York. Toren focuses on patent litigation, especially computer fraud, and he was once the head of Sidley's NY IP group. Loeb & Loeb's NY office has also added an IP litigator. Mark E. Waddell joins the firm as a partner from Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. Waddell specializes in litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act governing the introduction of generic pharmaceuticals.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Howrey London Prepares to Move to New Office |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Howrey's London operation is preparing to move to a new office, doubling its size. By the end of next fall, the firm hopes to move into a 40,000sq ft. space in a new building at 5 New Street Square. Howrey moved into its present 18,0000sq ft. office just last year. The firm has been growing via lateral hires and is especially looking to expand its arbitration practice; this year its focus has been on IP.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Crowell & Moring Adds Three Bankruptcy Lawyers |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Crowell & Moring has recently hired three bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys for its growing financial services team; the firm just added nine others to the same practice in February. Monique Almy joins the Corporate and Bankruptcy groups in Washington as a partner from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Mark Lichtenstein left Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney to join Crowell's New York office as a partner. Finally Matthew Cheney, a bankruptcy and creditor's rights lawyer, will also join the Washington office as counsel. The three lawyers add unique strengths to the Bankruptcy group and will also contribute expertise on litigation, loan workouts, and restructurings to the financial services team .
Source: www.prnewswire.com |
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LA Boutique Founder and Partner Leave for Larger Firm |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
The founder of LA boutique, Fox Spillane Shaeffer, is leaving to join Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif. Gerard Fox and partner Raul Perez are leaving because the practice needs the support of a larger firm. Fox's 15-lawyer former shop will continue practicing, changing its name to Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow. Fox specializes in entertainment, intellectual property, and product liability defense. He and Perez will bring Liner Yankelevitz an additional $5 million in business.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
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Lateral Hire at London Firm's Paris Office |
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Sunday, 22 April 2007 |
London firm Ashurst has hired Orrick Rambaud Martel finance partner Sylvie Perrin for its French projects practice. Perrin specializes in project finance, asset finance, and tax leasing. Ashurst's Paris office now has 70 lawyers and focuses on M&A, acquisition finance, and structured finance. Several other attorneys have left Orrick's Paris office since its Jan. 2006 merger with Rambaud Martel.
Source: www.legalweek.com |
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New M&A Partner at Jones Day, Atlanta |
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
Jones Day has hired Bryan Davis as a partner in its Atlanta office. Davis comes from Alston Bird, where he was the chair of the M&A practice quality practice. With his new firm, he will be working in the international law practice group. Jones Day's international presence and the current trend of increasing cross-border M&A made the decision to move a good one for Davis. He works primarily on the representation of public and private companies and investment banking firms in M&A transactions.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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