Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued its Texas expansion with a team of five international trade lawyers and business professionals, led by partners Michelle Schulz and Elsa Manzanares in Dallas. The group joins Akerman’s Government Affairs and Public Policy Practice Group from a regional law firm, where Schulz and Manzanares served as co-chairs of the International Trade Group. Schulz also served as chair of the International Practice. Akerman also welcomes practice group attorney Kim Carlson, senior trade advisor Troy Shaffer and trade analyst Matthew Savage. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Charles Haag to the firm’s Transactions Department as a partner in Dallas. Charles is a seasoned capital markets and securities attorney who joins Winston from Jones Day. More >>

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that the firm is expanding its presence in Texas with seven new partners based in Dallas. The move deepens Katten’s award-winning practice that handles sophisticated corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and transactional capabilities for its clients in numerous industries across the country and overseas. The new partners were all previously with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP in Dallas. More >>

Will Becker has joined Locke Lord’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Firm’s Tax Department. Becker is well versed in federal income, Texas franchise and sales and use tax matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, REITs, real estate joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and restructurings. Becker, who joins the Firm from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP where he was a Partner, assists clients in analyzing a variety of tax matters and their impact on corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate investment trusts, hedging transactions and other derivative transactions. More >>

All three lawyers join DLA Piper from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP, where Katz served as chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice, as well as on the firm’s management committee, and Hoffman co-headed an interdisciplinary mergers and acquisitions dispute team. Katz will serve as the Dallas office managing partner. More >>

Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Todd A. Schroeder, a well-respected tax lawyer with significant experience advising a broad array of clients on complex tax planning and tax structuring matters, has joined the global law firm as a partner in its Dallas office. He comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Baker McKenzie. More >>

Litigation boutique Yarbrough Law Group has joined Squire Patton Boggs in Dallas, enhancing the firm’s litigation capabilities and continuing its rapid global expansion in cybersecurity and data privacy law. More >>

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Lindsay Nickle to its Dallas office as a partner in the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce Scott Thomas has joined the firm as a partner in the Dallas office. A trial lawyer with substantial experience in commercial litigation, securities litigation, and shareholder disputes in federal and state courts in Texas, New York, and California, Scott joins Winston after leaving Fish & Richardson earlier this year. More >>

Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added corporate and transactional attorney John Dickey to the Dallas office as a partner in the Corporate Department.  Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Dickey was a partner in the Corporate and Transactional Practice at Polsinelli LLP. More >>