Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of Kelly Eberspecher as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group. He will reside in the firm’s Chicago office, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2017. Mr. Eberspecher Joins Steptoe from Husch Blackwell. More >>

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that it is continuing the expansion of its finance and private equity practices with the addition of Joshua Samis. Mr. Samis will join McDermott as Partner is its Chicago office and previously was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. More >>

Amit Kalra has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance team and the Tax, Employee Benefits, and Trusts and Estates practice group, based in the firm’s Chicago office. Kalra joins from Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago where he was chair of the firm’s Tax department. More >>

Kevin D. Finger has returned to the Chicago office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the Litigation Practice. Prior to re-joining the firm, he was a partner at DLA Piper. More >>

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP welcomes Daniel R. Flynn to the firm’s Chicago office. Flynn, a litigator focusing on environmental issues, brings decades of experience and enhances the services offered in Chicago. Prior to joining Dinsmore, Flynn practiced at Leech Tishman as well as Seyfarth Shaw. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce Matt Stevens has joined the firm as partner in the Corporate Department. Mr. Stevens, who will be based in the firm’s Chicago office, brings experience advising clients with respect to a wide variety of corporate transactions, particularly focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, and has significant cross-border experience throughout the world. He also regularly advises publicly and privately held companies with respect to general corporate matters and complex commercial engagements. More >>

Schiff Hardin LLP today announced the addition of Kevin M. Nelson as a partner in its rapidly growing Intellectual Property Group. Nelson has joined the Chicago office, where he is a member of the firm’s Pharmaceuticals and Biologics Patent Team. Nelson has more than 15 years of experience representing generic drug manufacturers in patent litigation brought under the Hatch-Waxman amendments. More >>

Polsinelli welcomes two new shareholders to the firm’s Real Estate practice in Chicago. Michael Ostermeyer and Karen DaCosta Perzan bring with them deep experience in advising clients on commercial real estate matters, adding to the already-deep bench strength the practice offers its clients nationwide. More >>

Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that William (Bill) Lewis has joined the Global Real Estate Group as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Over the past 22 years, Lewis has developed an extensive nationwide practice in commercial real estate law, with a focus on leasing, acquisition, and disposition. Most recently, he was Chair of the Real Estate and Land Use Group at Vedder Price in Chicago. More >>