Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP, a preeminent litigation and business law firm working both nationally and internationally, adds Richard J. Zuromski, Jr. as a partner in its San Francisco office. Focused on defending a variety of class action matters, Zuromski joins the firm after nearly a decade at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Amie Needham to the firm’s St. Louis office. Needham, previously a partner with Thompson Coburn LLP, joins Littler as a shareholder and will continue to focus her practice on traditional labor law in addition to employment counseling and litigation. Needham’s arrival at Littler is the latest among a slew of high profile laterals who have joined the firm across a number of its national and international offices.

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Dechert’s London-based emerging markets team has advised on three important capital markets deals out of Georgia for an aggregate amount of US$1 billion. Partner Louise Roman Bernstein led on all three transactions, assisted by associates Giles Belsey and Jennifer Buckett and with support from Dechert’s newly-established Tbilisi office.

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GKN plc has agreed to acquire Volvo Aero, the aero engine division of AB Volvo, for SEK 6.9 billion.

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Butler, Snow, O’Mara & Cannada has brought on two new attorneys as a result of legal recruitment, according to a press release.

Keishuna L. Randall and Stephanie Taylor have been hired to come aboard the law firm’s products liability division in its Jackson, Mississippi office.

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Global law firm Baker & McKenzie hired Sébastien Marcelin-Rice for a London legal job, according to a press release.

Marcelin-Rice joins the practice as a partner and will serve the banking and finance division. He left the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a senior associate.

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National law firm Baker Hostetler hired Jay R. Nanavati for a Washington legal job, according to a press release.

Formerly an assistant chief of the Western Criminal Enforcement section of the Tax Division with the U.S. Justice Department, Nanavati comes aboard the D.C. office as counsel. He was with the Justice Department for more than seven years.

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