Willkie today announced that it has added a leading data center and digital infrastructure team, including four real estate partners based in Willkie’s Dallas office. The partners are James Grice, Bruce ‘Eddie’ Lowry, Michael McKinley, and Thu Pham. The group significantly expands Willkie’s capabilities in the sector and further strengthens the Firm’s broader infrastructure and real estate platform. The team joins from Akerman.
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Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Buena Vista Lyons has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a principal. Vista has more than 25 years of experience in employment litigation and joins the firm from FordHarrison.
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that prominent restructuring and bankruptcy attorney Ian E. Roberts has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas.
Tags: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | DallasWillkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that energy and infrastructure attorney Matthew Penny has joined the Firm as a partner. Matthew’s practice focuses on the development and construction – including Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) matters – of energy and infrastructure projects, including data centers. He is based in the Firm’s Houston and Dallas offices. Most recently, Mr. Penny had served as Partner in the Houston office of Jackson Walker LLP.
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Kirkland & Ellis announced today that first-chair trial lawyer Andrew LeGrand has joined the Firm as a litigation partner. He joins Kirkland from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a partner.
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Kevin Wakefield has joined Jones Day as of counsel in its Real Estate Practice. He is based in the Firm’s Dallas Office. Mr. Wakefield represents banks and other institutional lenders in a variety of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on the origination of commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans. He also advises clients on the acquisition, sale, development, and leasing of commercial real estate.
Tags: Jones Day | DallasWillkie today announced that prominent litigators Grant Schmidt and Andrew Bean have joined the Firm as partners in the Dallas office. Their addition extends Willkie’s global litigation team to Texas and deepens the commercial litigation and trial capabilities available to clients across the state and nationally. The duo arrives from Hilgers PLLC.
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Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Aimee Fagan has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department and the Intellectual Property Practice in Dallas. Aimee, who joins from Sidley Austin LLP, is a first-chair trial lawyer whose practice focuses on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Litigation and Intellectual Property & Technology practices with the addition of Phillip Aurentz as a shareholder in its Dallas office. Aurentz joins from Sidley Austin LLP.
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King & Spalding announced today that Jeff Cole and Brian Jansen have joined the firm as partners in its Finance and Restructuring practice group. They are based in Dallas and join the firm from Winston & Strawn, where Cole helped found the Dallas office.
