McGuireWoods is bolstering its national environmental litigation and regulatory enforcement capabilities with the arrival of Atlanta partner Adam Sowatzka, a former EPA enforcement attorney who brings more than 25 years of experience handling crisis management, major environmental incident response, and civil and criminal investigations and enforcement matters spanning all areas of environmental media, including air, water and waste. Sowatzka joins McGuireWoods from King & Spalding.
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Rachel M. Reid has joined as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office, where she will practice as part of its Corporate and Insurance practice groups. As a business-oriented attorney with extensive in-house experience, including as a chief privacy officer for nearly a decade, Ms. Reid will support clients in critical areas of data privacy and security, corporate governance, risk management, operations, complex commercial transactions, technology transactions and outsourcing. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Ms. Reid was most recently SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Privacy Officer at Voya Financial (formerly ING US), where she joined as senior counsel in 2009. |
Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Elizabeth J. Campbell has joined the firm as a partner in the Business Litigation group. Campbell has extensive experience representing corporations, partnerships, and individuals in business disputes across multiple jurisdictions. She joins Womble from Locke Lord, where she was a member of that firm’s board of directors and served as the litigation coordinator for the southeast.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has added two highly accomplished real estate finance attorneys to its growing Atlanta office. Joshua F. Reif and Aleksandra Strang have joined Polsinelli’s Real Estate Finance Practice Group as shareholders, continuing the firm’s growth in the Georgia capital and in one of the firm’s leading national practice areas. Both join Polsinelli from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP where they were partners in the Real Estate Capital Markets and Corporate Leveraged Finance practices focused on commercial mortgage warehouse and repurchase financing facilities.
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A full-service team of mergers and acquisitions and insurance regulatory attorneys, comprised of partners Tony Roehl, Lori Bibb and Joe Holahan, have joined BakerHostetler’s Business Practice Group. Roehl will also become the firm’s Insurance Transactions and Regulatory team leader. Roehl and Bibb are based in Atlanta; Holahan is based in Washington. They join from Morris, Manning & Martin and help strengthen BakerHostetler’s leading corporate, M&A and regulatory teams.
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP has announced that Sul Kim has joined the firm as a partner in its Labor & Employment department in its Labor Management Relations Practice Group, based in Atlanta. Kim comes to Seyfarth from Akerman, where she was a partner.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Douglas W. Butler has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate & Securities group. He will be based in the Atlanta office. Butler joins Womble from Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, where he was a partner and led that firm’s Captive Management and Insurance Regulatory group.
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Wayne Bradley and Ann-Marie Notaro, two highly-regarded corporate partners with notable industry recognition, have joined Troutman Pepper’s national Corporate Practice Group in Atlanta. The pair join from Squire Patton Boggs.
Tags: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP | AtlantaLewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of six attorneys to its Data Privacy & Cybersecurity (DPCS) Practice. This nationally recognized team includes Jackson, Mississippi-based Partner Robert Walker, CIPP/US, Associates Erica Lloyd and Rachel Pitts, as well as New Orleans-based Partner Ross Molina, Atlanta-based Partner Tawana Johnson, and Houston-based Associate Ryan Cook. These attorneys, who bring to the firm more than 50 years of combined experience in the data privacy space, will assist clients with, among other things, responding to data breaches, complying with data privacy requirements, addressing pre- and post-incident cybersecurity, and responding to state and federal regulatory investigations. The team will bolster Lewis Brisbois’ DPCS Practice and further the firm’s commitment to excel and serve clients at the highest level. The group arrives from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.
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King & Spalding announced today that private funds and real estate lawyer Gibbs Fryer has rejoined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Fryer rejoins the firm after co-founding and serving as a principal for Evergreen Medical Properties, a real estate operating company investing in healthcare facilities across the U.S.
