Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that it has opened an office in Boston to further extend its market-leading technology and life sciences capabilities. The move also expands the firm’s premier Finance and Emerging Companies and Venture Capital (ECVC) practices. Additionally, the new office will strengthen existing transactional, private equity, real estate, and intellectual property (IP) practices. More >>

McCarter & English has attracted two intellectual property partners – patent litigator John Gutkoski, who tries cases in the life sciences and high tech sectors, and Jonathan Lovely who represents large medical device companies and emerging growth companies in patent prosecution and related strategies – to its Boston office. More >>

Morgan Lewis today welcomes corporate partner Amy Maloney, who represents a wide variety of participants in project finance and infrastructure transactions. She arrives from Latham & Watkins and will be resident in Boston. More >>

Kenneth Juster is joining Cooley’s Boston office as a partner in the financial services regulatory practice. He was formerly a partner at White & Case. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Mark Hichar to its Boston office as a Shareholder in the firm’s nationally recognized Gaming Practice. His addition expands Greenberg Traurig’s top-ranked Gaming Practice into Boston. More >>

Real estate finance lawyers Sean O’Brien and Allison Driscoll have joined Holland & Knight as partners in the firm’s Boston office. They previously practiced at Seyfarth Shaw, where Mr. O’Brien was co-chair of the Boston Real Estate Practice Group. More >>

FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest distributed law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Nathan as a partner in the firm’s Boston office. More >>

Pepper Hamilton announced today that Miranda Hooker has joined the firm as a partner in the Health Sciences Department, resident in the Boston office. More >>

Veteran patent attorney Jack Penny is the latest IP partner to join Womble Bond Dickinson’s Boston office. He comes to Womble Bond Dickinson from Nutter McClennen & Fish, where he was group leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. More >>

Noted finance attorney Thomas Draper has joined Foley Hoag LLP as a partner in the Business Department and Co-Chair of the Debt Finance Practice. He is resident in the firm’s Boston office. Draper represents companies and private equity sponsors in a range of acquisition financing transactions, including asset-based credits and large syndicated term loans. He also has extensive experience representing borrowers in a variety of debt transactions, from bank credit facilities to senior and mezzanine notes to high yield bonds. More >>