Carey Troell, a highly experienced bond counsel attorney, has joined Locke Lord’s Public Finance Practice Group as a Partner in the Firm’s Austin office. With an extensive background in structuring all types of financing transactions and representing the full spectrum of issuers in Texas, Troell strengthens the Firm’s full-service public finance capabilities in the state. Troell joins Locke Lord from Bracewell.
Healthcare attorney Jennifer Rangel has joined Holland & Knight’s Austin, Texas, office as a partner. She focuses on regulatory, transactional and administrative health law for healthcare providers, healthcare industry companies, payors, health plans and managed care organizations. Ms. Rangel was formerly a partner with Locke Lord.
Scott L. Cole and Asher B. Griffin have joined the firm as partners in Austin, Texas’s capital and a burgeoning tech hub. The firm welcomes the two lateral hires as the newest members of its recently opened Austin office, wrapping up a year that extended its reputation as the world’s top business litigation firm. Cole and Griffin join John Bash and Matthew Scheck as the partners resident in the firm’s new Austin office.
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Cole joins Quinn Emanuel as a partner from McKool Smith, a commercial and intellectual property litigation firm where he was a principal specializing in patent litigation. He has tried over 25 cases to verdict and won four nine-figure verdicts/judgments. He has been recognized since 2014 in the Best Lawyers in America and the IAM Patent 1000. He won Texas Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” for the $391 million judgment in Versata v. SAP and later won the American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” for the affirmance of that judgment at the Federal Circuit, believed to be the largest judgment ever affirmed by the Federal Circuit at that time. About $100 million of the Versata judgment was derived entirely from Cole’s cross-examination of SAP’s damages expert, and the Federal Circuit quoted directly from that cross-examination in affirming the judgment.
Griffin joins from Scott Douglass & McConnico, a commercial litigation boutique firm, where he practiced as a partner. He handles litigation across industries and practices, including pharmaceutical litigation, oil and gas disputes, private equity/hedge fund litigation, and intellectual property disputes. Most recently, Griffin has served as the lead Manufacturers’ Liaison Counsel in the Texas Opioid MDL, playing a central role in shaping the defense of the multi-billion dollar claims. He represents defendants and plaintiffs in complex litigation matters, including breach of contract, non-competition, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, usurpation of corporate opportunity and trade secrets cases. He was named a “Texas Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters in 2010 and 2011 and served on the Steering Committee of the Texas Minority Counsel Program from 2011 through 2017.
Cole, Griffin join as partners in Texas capital that is also burgeoning tech hub
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Stephanie Bergeron Perdue, former Deputy Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, has joined the firm as a Litigation partner in the Environmental, Safety & Incident Response group in the Austin office.
Michael Malfettone has joined Locke Lord’s Austin office as Partner in the Firm’s Energy Practice Group. Malfettone will also build upon the Firm’s Renewable Energy Section, bringing experience in a wide range of corporate and financing transactions. Malfettone joins Locke Lord from Husch Blackwell LLP and will relocate to the Firm’s New York office in coming months.
Tags: Locke Lord LLP | Austin | New YorkLocke Lord’s Austin office has added an experienced and respected trio to the Firm’s Public Finance Practice Group: Adam Harden, who joins as a Partner, and John Hall and Justin Rodriguez as Senior Counsel. The additions greatly expand the Firm’s public finance presence and bond counsel capabilities in the Lone Star State, one of the largest and most diverse public finance markets in the country. The group joins Locke Lord from Norton Rose Fulbright.
