King & Spalding announced today that Danna Horton, a real estate lawyer with extensive experience serving the commercial real estate and financial services industries, has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. Horton is based in the firm’s Chicago office. Horton joins the firm from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago.
Global law firm Dentons has announced the arrival of Pierandrea Bonali as a partner in the Banking and Finance practice in Milan. He is a highly regarded lawyer in the area of real estate finance and will strengthen the Firm’s offering for clients in the real estate sector. He joins from McDermott Will & Emery law firm, along with senior associate Antida Cutuli.
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Fennemore continues its strategic Western expansion announcing today that it is combining with Wendel Rosen LLP, one of the oldest and largest full-service business law firms in the East Bay. The combined firm will be called Fennemore Wendel in Northern California, Fennemore Dowling Aaron in the Central Valley and Fennemore across the rest of its footprint in Southern California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas, with a team of eight intellectual property (IP) partners: Kevin Meek, Syed Fareed, Stephen Hash, Paula Heyman, Brian Oaks, Margaret Sampson, Nick Schuneman and Brett Thompsen. The group joins the newly opened office from Baker Botts LLP.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Vivek K. Mohan has joined the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner. Mohan will serve as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems Practice Group and continue his privacy, cybersecurity and tech regulatory practice. Mohan joins Gibson Dunn from Mayer Brown LLP, where he was a partner. Previously, he was a senior attorney at Apple Inc., where he was on the company’s global privacy law and policy team and head of information security law.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that it will add prominent leveraged finance lawyer Daniel Gendron as a partner, based in the Firm’s London office. Daniel will join the Firm’s Finance Practice Group from Linklaters where he is a partner. Prior to joining Linklaters in 2008, Daniel began his career at Borden Ladner Gervais in Montreal, Canada. He is the third lateral partner to join Willkie’s London office this year and the sixth lateral to join Willkie’s multidisciplinary private equity platform in this same time period, with others joining in Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced today that Joseph N. Soltis has joined the firm’s tax practice as Partner, based in New York. Soltis joins Freshfields from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP in New York.
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Energy regulation attorney Paul Forshay has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the Public Policy & Regulation Group. He advises clients on compliance with federal and state regulations and represents them in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state commissions. Mr. Forshay was previously a partner at Eversheds Sutherland, where he co-chaired the liquefied natural gas (LNG)/natural gas regulatory practice.
