Baker Donelson is pleased to announce it has added health care attorney Michelle Williams as a member of its Baker Ober Health Law Group resident in the Firm’s Atlanta office. Ms. Williams, who joins as a shareholder, focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from non-profit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, she was a partner with Alston & Bird.
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King & Spalding has recruited Adam Spicer, a trial lawyer who focuses on complex pharmaceutical and life sciences matters, as a partner in the firm’s Trial & Global Disputes practice group in Atlanta. Spicer was most recently a partner at Butler Snow. Spicer has extensive trial experience with high-exposure cases involving complex. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the arrival of infrastructure development and finance partner G. Scott Rafshoon, who joins the firm’s Global Corporate Practice, resident in Atlanta. Mr. Rafshoon arrives from Hunton Andrews Kurth. More >>

Lewis Brisbois has grown its Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice in Atlanta, bringing on accomplished environmental law attorney Martin A. Shelton as a partner. Mr. Shelton brings nearly a quarter century of experience counseling clients on the environmental issues involved in real estate transactions, Brownfield remediation and redevelopment, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Shelton joins the firm from Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C. in Atlanta.
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King & Spalding today announced that Erik Belenky has joined the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group as a partner in the Atlanta office. Belenky was previously a partner at Jones Day. More >>

Lewis Brisbois’ Atlanta office has brought on experienced trial lawyer Daniel C. Norris as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice. Mr. Norris will also work with the firm’s Class Action & Mass Tort, Intellectual Property & Technology, and Products Liability teams. Norris was previously with the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird LLP before joining Lewis Brisbois. More >>

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that Anne Marie Garavaglia and Kinan Obeidin have joined Akerman’s Real Estate Finance Practice in Atlanta. Garavaglia and Obeidin join Akerman from Nelson Mullins LLP, where they led practices representing institutional lenders, REITs, and equity partners in the negotiation and closing of complex structured finance transactions. Their additions to the firm bolster the team’s strategic expansion in 2019. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its global Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice with the addition of Alison Elko Franklin as a shareholder in the firm’s Atlanta office. Franklin, who joins from Dentons, will advise clients on a broad range of restructuring matters, including corporate reorganizations, municipal reform, creditors’ rights litigation, and distressed acquisitions. More >>