Paul Hastings Adds Premier Commercial and Securities Litigator Jennifer Conn

Paul Hastings LLP announced today that leading commercial and securities litigator Jennifer Conn, who has represented some of the world’s largest businesses in bet-the-company litigation, has joined the firm as a partner. She will co-chair the firm’s securities litigation practice. Joining from Gibson Dunn, Conn is this year’s second lateral litigator in New York, following the addition of Joshua Berman from White & Case earlier this week.

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Melissa Messina Brings Investment Banking, Public Finance Skills to McGuireWoods

McGuireWoods is expanding its nationally ranked public finance practice with the arrival of Baltimore partner Melissa Messina, an attorney and former investment banker with deep experience advising and structuring financings for senior living communities and representing lenders and underwriters in complex finance transactions. Messina joins McGuireWoods from the financial services firm HJ Sims, where she was a senior investment banker before assuming the role of executive vice president and associate general counsel.

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Dinsmore Grows Again in Cleveland with Addition of Experienced Financial Services Litigator

Just weeks after the arrival of five intellectual property attorneys, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is adding to its commercial finance and litigation teams with the recent addition of Ben Carnahan to the Firm’s Cleveland office. Ben builds long-lasting client relationships and has extensive experience in complex commercial and consumer loan transactions and litigation, with an emphasis on the defense of banks, consumer finance companies, mortgage lenders and loan servicers against federal and state consumer statutory claims. Carnahan joins Dinsmore from Walter & Haverfield LLP.

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Eversheds Sutherland Adds International Tax Pro Megan Hall as a Partner

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Megan K. Hall has joined the Tax Practice Group as a partner. Resident in the Washington DC office, Ms. Hall further strengthens the firm’s international tax capabilities with a particular focus on transactional matters, cross-border employment and global mobility. Hall arrives at the firm form Mayer Brown LLP.

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