Reed Smith today announced the addition of pioneering data privacy, advertising, and brand protection partner Robert Newman. Formerly the co-chair of Privacy, Security & Data Innovations at Loeb & Loeb LLP and co-leader of the Global Privacy & Data Security Task Force at Winston & Strawn LLP, Newman has joined Reed Smith’s global Entertainment & Media Industry Group as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes well-known Chicago real estate attorney Kimberlie Pearlman as shareholder in the firm’s Chicago office. Pearlman joins the firm’s rapidly-growing national Real Estate Practice, bringing tangible general counsel and development experience, including over a decade as real estate associate and partner with DLA Piper.
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Crowell & Moring and Chicago-based Brinks Gilson & Lione have joined forces. The deal brings together the practice of the premier 100-year old IP firm, recognized for its deep technical experience and scientific savvy, with Crowell & Moring’s intellectual property, technology, brand protection, and digital transformation capabilities. Brinks Gilson & Lione is renowned for assisting clients to maximize the value of cutting-edge technologies and advancing the interests of intellectual property owners.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes Carlos A. Ortiz as Shareholder in the firm’s national Employment Advice & Investigations Practice. He is based out of the Chicago office. Ortiz joins the firm from Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Milwaukee.
Cooley has expanded its Chicago presence, along with its national roster of talented litigators, with the addition of three partners in the firm’s growing business litigation, white collar defense & investigations, and cyber/data/privacy practices. Matthew Kutcher, Bobby Earles and Lei Shen join the prestigious 10-partner team that launched the firm’s Chicago office in May. The trio brings wide-ranging capabilities as a former high-level prosecutor, a cyber/privacy/security authority and a seasoned litigator. The addition of their extensive experience, including serving at the highest levels of government and industry, reflects the firm’s ongoing dedication to the development of an elite, diverse, next-generation litigation partnership, and builds on the firm’s mission to offer dynamic and disruptive solutions from a cross-functional team of lawyers to innovative clients driving the new economy. Kutcher joins the firm’s litigation practice from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Earles arrives from Kirkland & Ellis, and Shen joins from Mayer Brown.
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Ryan Jackson has joined Holland & Knight’s Chicago office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group. He was formerly a partner with Kirkland & Ellis.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that former federal and state prosecutor Rachel Cannon has joined the firm’s Investigations & White-Collar Defense Group as a partner. Cannon, who brings substantial trial experience, as well as significant cryptocurrency experience, will reside in Steptoe’s Chicago office, where she reunites with Steptoe partner Chris Niewoehner, another former assistant US attorney in the Chicago federal prosecutor’s office. Most recently, Cannon practiced in the Chicago office of Dentons.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Melainie Mansfield has joined the Firm as a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department. She is based in Willkie’s Chicago office. Ms. Mansfield has significant experience advising funds and financial sponsors on direct investments and distressed investment reorganizations inside and outside of bankruptcy. Ms. Mansfield was previously a partner at Milbank LLP and DLA Piper.
King & Spalding today announced that Timothy Hoffmann has joined the firm as a partner in the Chicago office. Hoffmann’s practice focuses on bankruptcy and insolvency-related matters. He joins the firm from Jones Day, where he represented lenders, strategic investors, debtors and various other parties in financially-distressed situations, including both in-court and out-of-court restructurings.
