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.
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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.
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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.
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Erin Simmons, who handles complex lending transactions for financial clients, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Denver-based partner in the firm’s Finance Practice. Erin joins Haynes Boone from Davis Graham & Stubbs, where she was a partner in the firm’s Corporate Finance Practice.
Signalling further growth for the firm, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that Jade-Alexandra Fearns has joined in London as a partner in its market-leading Antitrust and Competition practice. She specialises in helping clients navigate the increasingly complex antitrust and foreign investment landscape, including national security reviews, international sanctions and regulatory compliance issues. Fearns joins the firm Proskauer Rose in London.
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