Allen & Overy today announced that renowned life sciences specialist Dr Anna Wolters-Höhne has joined the firm’s intellectual property litigation practice with effect from 1 December 2023. Anna joins the firm having previously been a partner at Bird & Bird.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed a new shareholder to the firm’s growing Dallas office. Tara M. Darling has joined the firm’s nationwide Real Estate Finance Practice Group. An experienced finance attorney, she focuses her practice on advising clients on lending transactions across different commercial real estate asset classes. Polsinelli recently added a three-lawyer real estate team in Washington, D.C., and a three-lawyer commercial finance team in Nashville, continuing the fast-paced growth of its Real Estate & Financial Services Department. In April, the firm welcomed two real estate finance shareholders in Atlanta. The department has added ten new shareholders in 2023 as it has focused intently on growing its sophisticated real estate and finance practices that serve clients from development and financing through litigation and restructuring. Darling arrives from Cassin & Cassin LLP.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Real Estate Practice in California with the addition of Shareholder Vivek K. Chavan, who returns to the firm after four years at DLA Piper.
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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Timothy Swickard back to the firm as a partner in its Sacramento office, a vice-chair of its Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice, as well as a member of its Environment, Land, & Natural Resources Law and Government Affairs & Public Policy Practices. Mr. Swickard has more than 23 years of legal experience, including serving as the director and chief counsel for the California Environmental Protection Agency Department of Toxic Substances Control under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Swickard previously served as a partner in Lewis Brisbois’ Sacramento office between 2012 and 2018, before practicing with Greenberg Traurig over the last five years.
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Akin is pleased to announce that projects and energy transition partner Vanessa Richelle Wilson has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Previously she was U.S. head of the energy and natural resources sector at DLA Piper.
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Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome Debbie Y. Chin to the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department. Prior to joining Fox, Chin was partner at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.
Tags: Fox Rothschild LLP | San FranciscoGlobal law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Banking & Finance Practice with the addition of Luke Lado as a new shareholder in the firm’s London office. Most recently, Lado served as Counsel in the London office of Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP.
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Paul Navarro, a veteran emerging companies and venture capital lawyer, is rejoining the firm’s growing Los Angeles office, where he will advise entrepreneurs and technology startups and lead a growing practice serving Latin America. Paul returns to Perkins Coie from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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Kilpatrick announced today that John Pierce, one of the nation’s leading energy attorneys, has joined the firm’s Seattle office as a partner. Mr. Pierce will be a member of the firm’s nationally recognized and expanding Energy Practice. He was previously a partner at Stroock.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Yvonne M. Saadi has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation group in Pittsburgh. Yvonne has more than a decade of civil and criminal litigation experience, including serving for nearly five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (“AUSA”) in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Yvonne will focus her practice on counseling clients in litigation and white-collar matters and investigations.
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