Cooley has expanded its market-leading intellectual property litigation practice with the addition of Christa Anderson as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. Anderson joins the firm’s global litigation team from Keker, Van Nest & Peters, bringing extensive trial experience representing companies in intellectual property disputes across a wide range of industries and technologies.
Tags: Cooley LLP | San Francisco
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labour law practice representing management, has opened an office in Zurich, Switzerland. The office will be led by Dr. Ueli Sommer, who joined the firm as a partner, and will operate under the name Littler | LEL Lawyers.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is pleased to announce that Tim Becker and Wells Miller have joined the firm in Boston as partners in its tax practice. Becker, a former Akin Gump tax partner who rejoined the firm on September 6, 2022, and Miller add deep experience advising funds clients on a wide range of issues. Becker and Miller come to the firm from Boston-based Choate Hall & Stewart LLP.
Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to welcome Jonathan “JD” DeSantis as a partner in its New York office. JD will join the Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance groups at Proskauer. Proskauer has one of the largest finance practices with over 30 partners globally, handling a full range of complex corporate finance matters. DeSantis joins from Shearman & Sterling.
Tags: Proskauer Rose LLP | New York
Marwan Elaraby has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a partner based in the Dubai office. Elaraby comes to the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP in Dubai.
Tags: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Dubai
Dentons continues its strong growth to support increased client demand for the international corporate and M&A expertise with the addition of two new partners, Nurhan Aycan and Mehmet Kömürcü, to the Firm’s national Corporate and M&A groups. The pair arrive at Dentons from the Toronto branch of Gowling WLG.
Tags: Dentons | TorontoCooley has strengthened its growing business restructuring & reorganization practice group with the addition of Eric Walker as a partner in the firm’s global litigation department. Walker arrives from Perkins Coie, where he served as a partner in the bankruptcy & restructuring and business litigation practice groups. He is widely recognized for his strategic savvy, working across all aspects of corporate restructuring and financial litigation, including representing companies and creditor committees in highly regulated industries.
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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Eldar Mayouhas to its New York office as a partner in the firm’s Healthcare, Medical Malpractice, Long-Term Care, and General Liability Practices. With extensive experience handling medical and psychiatric malpractice cases from pre-litigation risk management through appeal, Mr. Mayouhas will help grow the firm’s healthcare capabilities in the region. Mayouhas joins the firm from Gordon & Silber, PC.
Tags: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | New York
