Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added real estate partner Andrei V. Soukhomlinov and corporate and finance partner Dmitry K. Gladkov to its Moscow office. Soukhomlinov joins K&L Gates from Salans LLP, where he was co-head of its Russian real estate/construction practice, while Gladkov was formerly the general counsel for Russia/CIS at leading Russian investment bank Aton and, prior to that, at UBS.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Dmitry Gubarev and Leo Batalov, formerly of Dewey & LeBoeuf, have joined the firm as partners along with a group of associates in Moscow and London.

Morgan Lewis today confirmed that ten partners will join the firm's Business and Finance Practice, resident in the UK, Russia, and Kazakhstan. With the arrival of this group, the firm will continue to cement its presence in London—where it will have grown from 21 to 45 attorneys over the past year—and will launch new offices in Moscow and Almaty. The expansion brings to 24 the total number of cities where the international AmLaw 100 firm has offices.