Husch Blackwell welcomes Partner Marc Wezowski to its Chicago office. Wezowski joins the firm’s Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education team, having previously practiced at a large Chicago-based intellectual property firm. More >>

Benesch is proud to announce exciting growth in our firm with the addition of more than a dozen attorneys and a new office in Chicago.

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Private Equity Finance partner Maureen Sweeney has joined the firm’s Chicago office. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner. Ms. Sweeney’s arrival closely follows the arrival of Chris Dickerson and Matt Murphy, who joined the firm’s Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice in Chicago, and the recent additions of Corporate partners in Hong Kong, New York, and London. More >>

Much Shelist recently announced the addition of Mary Anne (Molly) Phelan as a principal in the Real Estate practice group, and Urska (Ursha) P. Magajne and Christopher R. Walker as associates in the Business & Finance group. Additionally, the firm promoted Julia Rybakova from apprentice to associate in the Business & Finance group. More >>

Roetzel & Andress LPA continues to expand its business and commercial litigation practice in Chicago and nationwide with the addition of attorney Michael Scotti, III, formerly of Freeborn & Peters LLP. More >>

Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Michael Ferro, Merge Healthcare Inc.’s (NASDAQ: MRGE) chairman and largest stockholder, on Merge’s $1 billion acquirement by IBM (NYSE: IBM). Merge is a Chicago-based provider of medical image handling and processing, interoperability and clinical systems designed to advance healthcare quality and efficiency. Under terms of the transaction, Merge shareholders would receive $7.13 per share in cash, for a total transaction value of $1 billion.

The global law firm Jones Day today announced that John Rafkin and David Woods have joined the Chicago Office as part of the Firm’s real estate finance practice. Both were formerly partners at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. More >>

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, welcomed patent litigator John Gresens to its Chicago office just weeks after announcing that the Chicago team has more than quadrupled in size since the office opened in 2014. He arrives at Akerman as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, and enhances the firm’s ability to serve global clients in complex cross-border matters and multiple-party disputes More >>