Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Fred Lee has joined the firm as a partner in the Dallas office. Lee, formerly a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, will continue his corporate debt finance practice at Gibson Dunn.
Tags: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | DallasO’Melveny announced today that highly regarded energy lawyer Ryan Sears has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas, where he will serve in the firm’s Project Development & Real Estate Practice Group and Energy Industry Group. Sears comes to O’Melveny from the Dallas office of Gray Reed & McGraw LLP, where he led the Energy Transactions Practice and Energy Industry Team.
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Katy D. Carmical, a commercial real estate attorney who represents owners, developers and investors in real estate transactions covering all asset types, with a focus on retail, office, life sciences and healthcare, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s nationally recognized real estate practice as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office. Carmical joins the firm from Winstead PC, where she was a shareholder in that firm’s real estate development and investments practice group.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of an office in Houston – the firm’s second location in Texas (the firm opened an office in Dallas in 2018) and sixteenth office worldwide. The founding partners of the new office include: John R. Keville, Michelle C. Replogle and Robert L. Green from Winston & Strawn LLP; Andrius R. Kontrimas and Barclay R. Nicholson from Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; Chad E. Mills and Kathryn Shurin from Haynes and Boone, LLP; Steve Peterson from Locke Lord LLP; and Eric S. Schlichter from McGuireWoods LLP.
Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity practice with the addition of Chauncey Lane as a partner in its Dallas office. Mr. Lane structures and negotiates complex transactions for strategic buyers and sellers and private equity firms in the technology and financial services industries. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Lane was a partner with Reed Smith.
O’Melveny announced today that former federal prosecutor Sid Mody has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in its White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Practice Group, as well as the firm’s Fintech, National Security, and Data Security & Privacy Groups. Mody comes to O’Melveny from the National Security, Cybercrime, and Money-Laundering Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, where he prosecuted cryptocurrency, cyberfraud, ransomware, and hacking cases, and was the office’s Digital Currency Crimes Coordinator and the National Security Cyber Specialist.
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McKool Smith has announced that patent litigator Alfonso Chan has joined the firm as a principal in its Dallas office. Mr. Chan litigates complex intellectual property disputes on behalf of universities, research institutes, and technology companies, and specializes in matters involving semiconductor and electronic technology as well as biomaterials and medical devices.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas, with a team of eight intellectual property (IP) partners: Kevin Meek, Syed Fareed, Stephen Hash, Paula Heyman, Brian Oaks, Margaret Sampson, Nick Schuneman and Brett Thompsen. The group joins the newly opened office from Baker Botts LLP.
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