Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP continues to deepen its bench strength in the energy and infrastructure sector with the addition of renewable energy and tax equity partner, Anne Levin-Nussbaum. She joins a series of recent lateral partners around the country including James Grice, Bruce (Eddie) Lowry, David Thompson, Michael McKinley, and of counsel Michael Borovik to augment their renewable energy team. Levin-Nussbaum arrives from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Steven Huttler has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner on its well-recognized Investment Management & Broker-Dealer Team (IM/BD). He was previously a partner at Sadis & Goldberg in the Investment Funds & Corporate Law Groups.
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Venable LLP is pleased to announce that Saminaz Akhter has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Practice in the Washington, D.C., office. Ms. Akhter focuses her practice on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on acquisition and divestiture transactions in a variety of industries. Akhter arrives from Blank Rome LLP.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Lance Dial as a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice. He joins the firm’s Boston office from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added first-chair litigator Jake Evans to the Atlanta office as a shareholder in the Litigation Practice. A former chair of the Georgia State Ethics Commission, Evans joins the firm from the Alpharetta, Georgia office of Hall Booth Smith, P.C., where he was managing partner.
Simon Amies has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s London life sciences practice. Amies arrives from Covington & Burling, where he was a corporate partner advising on private and public M&A, initial public offerings and other capital raises, as well as venture and growth capital transactions, with a focus on the life sciences industry.
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Mayer Brown announced today that Adam S. Hickey joined the firm as a partner in its Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, National Security, and Global Investigations & White Collar Defense practices. A former Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) with the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD) and Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Adam will focus on cybersecurity investigations and related litigation; investigations and enforcement actions related to national security authorities like sanctions, export controls, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); and foreign investment security reviews (CFIUS and Team Telecom). Adam will be resident in the firm’s Washington DC and New York offices.
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