Barnes & Thornburg Welcomes New Restructuring Partner Aaron Gavant to Chicago Office

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Barnes & Thornburg is pleased to announce that Aaron Gavant has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Finance, Insolvency and Restructuring department. Aaron offers a diversified practice focusing both on traditional in-court and out-of-court restructurings as well as all types of special situations within the structured finance space. Aaron’s arrival to the firm closely follows that of fellow restructuring partner Gregory Plotko, who joined the firm’s New York office earlier this year. Aaron joins the firm from Mayer Brown.

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Sidley Expands Its Global Private Equity Practice With London Partners Ramy Wahbeh and Kaisa Kuusk

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Sidley is pleased to announce that Ramy Wahbeh and Kaisa Kuusk have joined Sidley’s global M&A and Private Equity practice. Mr. Wahbeh will be a co-leader of Sidley’s global Private Equity practice group. They will be based in Sidley’s London office. They join Sidley from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in London where Mr. Wahbeh was deputy head of the London office.

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Dykema’s Washington, D.C., Office Adds Former Federal Prosecutor Chantel L. Febus

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Chantel Febus as a Member of its Appellate and Critical Motions, Business Litigation, and Government Investigations and Corporate Compliance teams, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Febus, who will serve as the firm’s Head of East Coast Appeals, joins Dykema after practicing at Proskauer Rose, LLP in New York City for the past decade. Prior to that, she was a federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division.

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Dentons adds Corporate Partner to its Melbourne office

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Melbourne-Dentons has welcomed Partner Warren Scott to its Corporate practice in Melbourne. The move marks another big step in Dentons’ growth strategy, which has a target of doubling revenue in Australia in the next five years. Warren is the ninth partner to join Dentons in less than 12 months. Warren arrvies at the firm from Holding Redlich in Melbourne.

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Dentons Nicaragua office strengthens its litigation and dispute resolution offering with new partner appointment

Friday, June 9, 2023

Elvis Martinez joins the Dentons Managua office along with associates María José Mendoza who specializes in Tax Law and Ana Belén Tiffer who joins the Corporate practice. These investments in talent reflect the growing demand from clients for Dentons’ legal advice in litigation, tax and corporate matters in Managua and in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

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Former Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford Joins Wilson Sonsini as a Partner

Friday, June 9, 2023

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, today announced that Judge Paul J. Watford has joined the firm as a partner in the litigation department after serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for 11 years. He will be based in the firm’s downtown Los Angeles office.

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