King & Spalding announced today that Tim FitzSimons has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its Chicago office. FitzSimons, who joins the firm from Jones Day, has advised companies on public and private transactions totaling more than US$200 billion.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added two nationally-recognized data privacy and security attorneys from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) to the firm’s Global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. Shareholder Jena M. Valdetero joins in Chicago and Shareholder David A. Zetoony in Denver.
Benesch welcomes partner Emily Newhouse Dillingham to the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. She is based in Chicago and comes to the firm from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Carol Anne Huff, an accomplished capital markets attorney, as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. She joins Chicago partner Christina Roupas as co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets & Securities practice. She was previously a Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Jai Khanna has joined the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team as a partner. Khanna brings to the firm a wealth of project finance experience relating to conventional and renewable energy generation facilities, real estate and related infrastructure. He will be based in the firm’s Chicago office. Khanna comes to Husch Blackwell from the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
King & Spalding today announced that Darren Gardner, Amanda Sonneborn and Dominic Hodson join the firm as partners in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group. Gardner and Hodson will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office, and Sonneborn will split her time between its offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. Gardner, Sonneborn and Hodson, who join from Seyfarth Shaw, will anchor the firm’s new Global Human Capital and Compliance practice.
Katten today announced the addition of two new partners to its industry-leading Insolvency and Restructuring practice, Terence G. Banich in Chicago and John E. Mitchell in Dallas. Banich and Mitchell were formerly at Fox Rothschild LLP and Akerman LLP respectively.
With restructurings, workouts and bankruptcies spiking in many industries throughout the United States and abroad, Cozen O’Connor today welcomed eight of the country’s leading restructuring and insolvency attorneys to its nationally recognized Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Practice. All eight attorneys come to the firm as members from Fox Rothschild LLP and seven — Brian L. Shaw, Ira Bodenstein, Robert M. Fishman, Peter J. Roberts, David R. Doyle, Allen J. Guon, and Mark L. Radtke — will reside in the firm’s Chicago office, while the eighth, Thomas Horan, will take up residence in Cozen O’Connor’s Wilmington, Del. office. Fishman and Shaw previously served as co-chairs of Fox Rothschild’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department.
King & Spalding today announced that Amy Garrigues has joined as a partner in the firm’s Healthcare team in the Chicago office. In addition to holding senior law firm positions as a health law practitioner, Garrigues most recently has been chief legal officer and executive vice president of 21st Century Oncology, an international cancer care provider.
