Troutman Pepper Adds Talented Health Care Regulatory and Transactional Partner in Chicago to Powerhouse Health Sciences Department

Monday, June 27, 2022

Asher Funk, an attorney who focuses on representing health care providers in transactions, regulatory counseling, compliance matters, government investigations, and enforcement actions, has joined Troutman Pepper’s Health Sciences Transactional Practice Group in Chicago as a partner. Funk comes to the firm from Polsinelli PC, and is the sixth attorney to join the firm’s national Health Sciences Department in recent months. In April, the firm welcomed three partners to the team, data privacy Partner Jonathan Ishee and corporate Partners Geoff Starr and Abe Kwon. Lori Trujillo and Brian Wong also joined the firm as counsel in its Los Angeles and New York offices, respectively, earlier this month.

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Latham & Watkins Further Grows Insurance Transactional Practice in New York

Monday, June 27, 2022

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Kirsten Gaeta has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and member of the Corporate Department. Gaeta advises insurance companies and financial sponsors on a wide range of corporate transactions in the insurance industry, with a particular focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving the insurance and financial services sectors. She joins Latham from Clifford Chance.

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Debevoise Adds Erez Liebermann as Data Strategy & Security Partner

Monday, June 27, 2022

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that Erez Liebermann has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Data Strategy & Security (DSS) Group, where he will focus on leading complex, high-impact cyber-incident response matters for clients and advising on data-related regulatory requirements. Mr. Liebermann’s arrival provides a considerable increase in bandwidth for what is already one of the legal industry’s leading data practices, and which is seeing strong and growing client demand as a result of increased data breaches and enhanced regulatory scrutiny in the sector. Prior to joining Debevoise, Mr. Liebermann co-chaired the U.S. cybersecurity and privacy practice at Linklaters where he advised major companies on a broad range of data privacy and cybersecurity issues.

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Leading International Trade Partner Susan Kovarovics Joins Akin Gump

Monday, June 27, 2022

Susan Kovarovics, a leading export controls and sanctions practitioner, has joined Akin Gump as an international trade partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she served as partner in charge of its Washington, D.C. office. While at that firm, she worked alongside Akin Gump international trade partners Kevin Wolf, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, and Mac Fadlallah, partner in charge of Akin Gump’s Dubai office.

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Hillary E. Ellis Joins Polsinelli’s Quickly Growing Roster of Women Shareholders in Real Estate and Financial Services

Friday, June 24, 2022

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes real estate attorney Hillary E. Ellis to its nationally renowned Real Estate Practice, continuing Polsinelli’s recent efforts to advance women leaders in the Real Estate and Financial Services Department. Ellis joins the firm as a new Shareholder in the Denver office, where she’ll work with Michael R. Strand and Real Estate Practice Chair Amy Kiefer Hansen.  Prior to joining Polsinelli, Ellis was a Partner at Kutak Rock LLP.

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