Clyde & Co Continues to Expand With New Corporate & Advisory Partner Appointment, Mohamed Barakat

Mohamed is a highly regarded US-qualified lawyer with more than 17 years of experience working in the United States (Chicago and Washington, DC) and the Middle East (Egypt and Saudi Arabia). He is a leading corporate lawyer with a deep understanding of the region and advises clients on complex M&A and restructuring transactions in the energy, financial services, infrastructure and real estate sectors. He joins from Baker & McKenzie LLP.

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ArentFox Schiff Welcomes Insurance Partner Huhnsik Chung in New York

Huhnsik represents clients in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters, while also resolving complex disputes that arise in the insurance industry. He advises on insurance-related matters involving formations and capitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio transfers, insurance-linked securities, investments, commutation agreements, and restructurings and receiverships. Huhnsik also advises on risk mitigation and exposures arising from transactions and investments, global licensing issues, tax matters, and representations and warranties policies on both the buy and sell side. In his dispute resolution practice, Huhnsik has served as lead counsel in more than 70 insurance, reinsurance, and commercial proceedings. Huhnsik joins ArentFox Schiff from Carlton Fields, PC, where he was a shareholder and served as co-chair of the firm’s Fintech and P&C Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice and the Blockchain and Digital Currency Practice. 

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Foley Adds Tax Partner Rishi Sodhi in Los Angeles, Continuing Strategic California Expansion

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Rishi Sodhi has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its Taxation Practice Group, bolstering its transactional tax capabilities for a broad range of transactions. Sodhi is the latest in a string of laterals to join the firm in California and builds upon Foley’s ongoing commitment to growth and expansion on the West Coast. Sodhi arrives from DLA Piper.

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Katten Adds Partner Emily Watson to M&A/PE Practice

Katten announced today that Emily K. Watson has joined as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity practice in Chicago, building on the deep bench of experienced and skilled attorneys structuring and closing middle-market deals. Prior to joining Katten, Watson was a partner in the corporate group at Levenfeld Pearlstein and a corporate transactions and private equity partner at McDermott Will & Emery where she spent the majority of her legal career.

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Private Equity Partner Paul Hogan Joins Holland & Knight in Chicago

Paul R. Hogan, a highly regarded mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity attorney in Chicago, has joined Holland & Knight as a partner. He was previously with Eversheds Sutherland and, prior to that, served as secretary and general counsel of a publicly traded holding company. Mr. Hogan joins the firm shortly after the arrival of a nationally recognized team of nine energy-focused partners, also from Eversheds, who are located in Atlanta, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C.

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