Bingham McCutchen LLP has significantly expanded its Investment Management Practice Group with the addition of three partners to its Washington, D.C. office, Thomas S. Harman, W. John McGuire and Christopher D. Menconi. The partners are joined by of counsel Monica L. Parry and Michael Berenson.

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce the opening of its Stamford, Connecticut office. The Stamford office officially opens today with five attorneys, four of whom (two shareholders, one of counsel, and one associate) join Ogletree Deakins from Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. Marc Zaken and John Stretton will join as Shareholders with Zaken, who was the co-chair of his former firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, serving as the office’s managing shareholder. Diana Nehro, a member of Ogletree Deakins’ International Practice Group, will also join the Stamford office as Of Counsel. This is the second Ogletree Deakins office to open in 2012. In April, the firm opened a New York City office.

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Proskauer continues to strengthen its global capital markets capabilities with the upcoming addition of three partners and a senior counsel in the firm’s London office. Partners Peter Castellon, Katherine Mulhern and Roberto Bruno and Senior Counsel Maximilian Kirchner will join in September 2012.

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International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has advised the purchasers on the £400 million acquisition of Battersea Power Station in central London.

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Stephen A. Opler, a transactional attorney whose background in accounting, investment banking, and private equity gives him a uniquely valuable deal perspective, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today.

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