King & Spalding announced today that Olivia Radin has joined the firm as a partner on its Special Matters and Government Investigations team. She is based in the New York office. Radin joins the firm from Freshfields, where she was managing partner of the New York office and a member of its global board.
Dentons, the world’s largest global law firm, announces today that Audrey Kwak has joined the Firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice as a shareholder in the Pittsburgh office. Kwak joins from Eckert Seamans and brings more than 15 years of significant commercial litigation experience, including complex business, intellectual property and construction disputes.
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Allen & Overy (“A&O”) today announced that David Ingles has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate M&A practice. David joins A&O’s New York office from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP where he served as a partner in its M&A practice in New York.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added a team of seven corporate and private equity partners in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. The group joins K&L Gates from Dentons Cohen & Grigsby and consists of partners Chris Thel, Ron Aulbach, Curt Anderson, John Wingerter, Lauren Crossett, Andrea Steiner, and Jeff Berkey.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expands its Financial Regulatory & Compliance capabilities with the addition of Mark D. Shaffer as a shareholder in the New York office. He joins from Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) where he served as chief compliance officer of BNY Trust Company of Canada and BNY Mellon (Toronto Branch), and as a director in Asset Servicing, Digital, and Issuer Services (Corporate Trust and Depository Receipts) Compliance.
Patrick Ferguson joins Orrick as a partner in our Energy & Infrastructure practice in San Francisco, focused on helping clients in the energy transition space navigate the demanding regulatory environment in California and the Western U.S.With a deep background advising independent power producers, as well as utilities and community choice aggregators, Patrick’s wide-ranging practice covers regulatory policy and transactions involving renewable energy and capacity sales, energy storage, offshore wind and transmission projects, carbon trading and beyond. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Power Association of Northern California, and he previously worked as in house commercial and regulatory counsel with a wind developer. Patrick, who co-chaired Davis Wright Tremaine’s energy practice, is the 9th partner to join our global E&I team since the beginning of last year.
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K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of K&L Gates, welcomes Joan Lim-Casanova as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. She joins the firm’s Singapore office from Cavenagh Law LLP, where she provided litigation representation in a Formal Law Alliance with Clifford Chance.
Squire Patton Boggs continued the expansion of its global Government Investigations & White Collar practice with the addition of partner Kathleen McGovern, who joins from Ernst & Young LLP where she served as a Forensic & Integrity Services Partner and Forensics Healthcare Practice leader.
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National labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP is pleased to welcome a 44-member team, including 32 experienced attorneys, in a significant expansion of the firm’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. The attorneys who will be joining the Constangy Cyber Team are located across 17 cities in 12 states, and are driving the opening of new offices for Constangy in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC. All are coming to Constangy from Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith.
