Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that energy and project finance attorney Scott A. Snyder has joined the Firm as a partner. He is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He joins Willkie from O’Melveny & Myers.
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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is pleased to announce that Howard Adler and John Claud have joined the firm as partners in the Corporate Practice Group, bringing extensive experience in complex transactional, regulatory, and strategic matters.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Schulte announced today that Tyler Carson has joined the firm as a partner in the Transactions Practice Group, based in New York. Tyler advises clients on complex public and private M&A, cross‑border transactions, and bespoke derivative structures that intersect with M&A and financing matters.
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Global law firm Reed Smith announced that Niket Rele has rejoined the firm in its Miami office as a partner in the Global Corporate Group. Rele was previously a partner at Reed Smith from 2015 to 2022. After his first stint at Reed Smith, Rele was a partner at Arnold & Porter.
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Sidley is pleased to announce that Greg Featherman has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in Sidley’s office in New York. He was previously a Tax partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. Earlier in his career, Mr. Featherman spent 10 years at KPMG LLP.
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Paul Hastings today announced the launch of its enhanced Brussels platform with leading antitrust lawyer Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, who joins the firm as a partner and chair of its Brussels office. Joining from King & Spalding, where she led the firm’s EU Antitrust & Competition practice, Cisnal de Ugarte advises on all aspects of EU competition law and has substantial experience in cross-border mergers and joint ventures, high-stakes antitrust investigations and complex vertical agreements.
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Skadden is pleased to announce that Scott Heard and Matthew Murphy have joined its market-leading Finance and Corporate Restructuring Groups, respectively, further strengthening the firm’s private credit and restructuring capabilities. Having worked together closely at another prominent global law firm, Mr. Heard and Mr. Murphy provide integrated service across complex debt financing transactions, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings and liability management exercises. The duo arrives at the firm from Paul Hastings.
Morgan Lewis continues to deepen its national real estate platform and build on its position as a global leader in data center development, investment, and operations with the arrival of partners Nathan Fahrer and Valerie Johnston from Perkins Coie. Nathan, resident in Seattle, and Val, resident in Chicago, focus on sophisticated real estate transactions nationwide spanning acquisition, development, financing, and operations across asset classes, with significant experience in the data center sector.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. continues the strategic expansion of its Corporate Practice with the addition of William R. “Bill” Halaby III as a shareholder in the firm’s Miami office. Halaby, who joins from Morrison Foerster, represents private equity sponsors, other private companies, and public companies in a wide range of transactional matters, including leveraged buyouts, carveout transactions, spinoffs, joint ventures, growth equity investments, business combinations, and securities offerings. He advises on domestic and cross-border transactions across the leisure, life sciences, industrial, financial services, energy, technology, and consumer goods and services industries, representing both buyers and sellers.
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Orrick today announced the strategic addition of Gina Marek as a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions Group, based in Silicon Valley. Gina joins the firm from Gunderson Dettmer, where she served as Co-Chair of the Strategic Licensing & Transactions Group. Her arrival follows the recent high-profile additions of New York tech advisor Agatha Kluk and former USPTO Solicitor Farheena Rasheed.
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