Cozen O’Connor today welcomed Melissa A. Siebert and Erin Bolan Hines — data privacy litigators with renowned track records of successfully defending employers and technology enterprises entangled in major data privacy class actions and appellate cases — to its award-winning Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Both come to the firm from Shook Hardy & Bacon and join Cozen O’Connor as shareholders. Each will work out of the firm’s Chicago office.
Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Ranan Well joined the firm’s Asset Management Transactions practice and Private Equity group as a partner, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Well arrives at the firm from the Washington office of Stradley Ronon.
Holland & Knight has strengthened its nationally recognized Real Estate Capital Markets Practice Group with the addition of Partner Stacey Lara. Ms. Lara, who will reside in the firm’s New York office, has extensive experience handling complex commercial and real estate litigation and appeals in state and federal courts. She was previously with Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
Jamie Evans joins Orrick from Fenwick & West, where he co-chaired the Capital Markets & Public Companies Group. Over the course of his 20-year career, he has advised on some of the highest-profile technology public offerings in history. Jamie joins an Orrick tech practice that is counsel to over 4,000 emerging growth companies, including over 700 new companies added in 2022, as well as many leading public tech companies. This hire is the latest in a string of 29 strategic growth hires in tech since the beginning of 2022, coupled with the firm’s combination with fintech regulatory firm Buckley in February.
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International arbitrator and litigation attorney Luis O’Naghten joins Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as partner in the Miami office where he will spearhead the firm’s growing international arbitration practice. O’Naghten adds significant experience as both party counsel and as an arbitrator, particularly in matters involving complex disputes in Latin America. O’Nagthen joins from the Miami office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Chad Nichols has joined the firm as a partner in the Houston office, where he will continue his finance practice. Nichols arrives at the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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Garrigues has bolstered its banking and finance practice in Mexico with the incorporation of Manuel Groenewold as a corporate/commercial law partner. The appointment, which will be submitted for approval to the next Partners’ Meeting, means the Mexico City team will now have over 30 professionals and 8 partners. Groenewold arrives from White & Case LLP.
Faegre Drinker announced today that Paul Patrow has rejoined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice in Chicago. Patrow returns to the firm from Kirkland & Ellis and was formerly with Faegre Baker Daniels from 2016 to 2019.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Erin Fay has joined the firm as a corporate partner in the Wilmington, Delaware office, where she will be a member of the restructuring practice. Fay is the third partner to join Wilson Sonsini in Wilmington in the last seven months, reflecting the firm’s success in expanding both the scope of services it offers clients and its team in Delaware-an important location for corporate and commercial matters in the United States. Before joining Wilson Sonsini, Fay was a partner at Wilmington-based Bayard, P.A., where she was a member of that firm’s business restructuring and liquidations group.
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