Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Handler has joined the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities practice group as senior counsel in the Los Angeles office. A corporate transactions pro with a focus on middle-market private businesses, Rob joins Blank Rome from Glaser Weil where he served as a partner in the Corporate and Real Estate groups.
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Partner Vivian Basdekis is the newest partner in Frost Brown Todd’s (FBT) Charleston, WV office. She is an experienced commercial litigator and trial attorney whose practice focuses on the financial services, construction, energy, and media industries.
Further expanding its market-leading Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice, Pillsbury has recruited veteran startup lawyer Matt Kirmayer as partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. Kirmayer was previously a partner at Perkins Coie.
Paul Hastings LLP announced today that accomplished capital markets lawyer Steven Hsu has joined the firm as a partner in Hong Kong. Hsu arrives at the firm from the Hong Kong office of Sidley Austin LLP.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its White Collar Practice with the addition of Joel M. Cohen as a partner in New York. Cohen joins the Firm from Gibson Dunn, where he was co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group, and a member of the firm’s Securities Litigation, Class Actions and Antitrust Practice Groups.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Ann M. O’Brien has joined the firm as a partner and co-leader of the Antitrust & Competition practice group. She will also lead the firm’s Criminal Antitrust and Cartels team. Based in Washington, D.C. O’Brien was most recently the leader of the Cartel and Government Antitrust Investigations Task Force at BakerHostetler.
Holland & Knight has strengthened its nationally recognized Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group with the addition of Partner Tim Poydenis, who will serve as the co-head of the firm’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice. Mr. Poydenis, who will reside in the firm’s Century City office, focuses his practice on representing emerging growth companies, venture capital investors and private equity funds. He was previously a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP.
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of six attorneys to its Data Privacy & Cybersecurity (DPCS) Practice. This nationally recognized team includes Jackson, Mississippi-based Partner Robert Walker, CIPP/US, Associates Erica Lloyd and Rachel Pitts, as well as New Orleans-based Partner Ross Molina, Atlanta-based Partner Tawana Johnson, and Houston-based Associate Ryan Cook. These attorneys, who bring to the firm more than 50 years of combined experience in the data privacy space, will assist clients with, among other things, responding to data breaches, complying with data privacy requirements, addressing pre- and post-incident cybersecurity, and responding to state and federal regulatory investigations. The team will bolster Lewis Brisbois’ DPCS Practice and further the firm’s commitment to excel and serve clients at the highest level. The group arrives from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.
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Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP (EGC) has added two partners to the firm — John Coghlan, promoted from the Washington D.C. office, and James Bliss who will join the New York office. We are thrilled to welcome the newest partners of the EGC family.
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