Berhane brings significant experience and deep market knowledge advising private equity sponsors and other private and public companies in a wide range of finance transactions. She most recently was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and, prior to that, served a secondment at KKR & Co, Inc. in New York.
Frost Brown Todd (FBT) has added Partner Rebecca Matthews to the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group in the firm’s Dallas office. Matthews arrives at the firm from Vinson & Elkins in Dallas.
Fox Rothschild is pleased to announce that Mitch A. Reid has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. He will provide services to clients from both the Denver and Dallas offices. Prior to joining Fox, Reid was a partner at Spencer Fane LLP.
Tags: Fox Rothschild LLP | Dallas
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Brent Hockaday as a partner in the Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice area. He joins the firm’s Dallas office from Bell Nunnally & Marin LLP.
King & Spalding announced today that nationally renowned trial lawyer Veronica Moyé has joined the firm as a partner in its Business Litigation practice group. Moyé joins the firm in Dallas, where it is opening its 24th office globally and 11th in the U.S. The new office in Dallas expands the firm’s international platform deeper into Texas, where the firm has a Houston office opened in 1995 and an Austin office opened in 2008. The Dallas office will focus on corporate, finance and restructuring, business litigation, government investigations, real estate and investment funds, and product liability and mass tort work for a broad spectrum of clients across the energy, financial services, transportation, healthcare, life sciences and technology sectors. Moyé joins King & Spalding from Gibson Dunn, where she was co-chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Practice Group and served on its Executive Committee.
Tags: King & Spalding LLP | Dallas
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Travis McRoberts has joined its Corporate Department as a Financial Restructuring partner in the Dallas office. McRoberts joins Baker Botts from Squire Patton Boggs.
Tags: Baker Botts L.L.P. | Dallas
James Billingsley has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group in its Dallas office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Billingsley was a senior partner at Polsinelli PC.
Tags: Duane Morris LLP | Dallas
Highly respected litigator William Craven has joined national law firm Akerman, the latest in a series of significant new partner announcements as the firm continues to strengthen its insurance coverage practice. Craven, who arrives as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group from Cozen O’Connor, is a veteran of the Texas legal market and will focus on representing insureds and insurers across the country.
Tags: Akerman LLP | Dallas