International law firm Baker Botts augmented its staff with the addition of two attorneys for New York legal jobs and one lawyer for a Houston legal job, according to a press release.
Legal recruiting benefits the New York office with the additions of William S. Lamb and Michael W.E. Didriksen while the Houston office gained the services of Thomas J. Moore.
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The international law firm of Vinson & Elkins is opening a new office in San Francisco, expanding its footprint in Northern California slightly more than two years after entering the market with an office in Palo Alto.
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Proskauer announced today that Martin J. Bienenstock, one of the nation’s most renowned corporate restructuring and governance lawyers, will join the firm together with his nationally regarded colleagues Philip M. Abelson, Irena M. Goldstein, Timothy Q. Karcher, Michael P. Kessler and Judy G.Z. Liu.
Tags: Proskauer Rose LLP | New YorkToday, seventeen institutional investors (RMBS Holders) represented by Gibbs & Bruns LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP announced they had achieved an agreement with Residential Capital LLC and its affiliated debtors (Debtors) to grant an $8.7 billion allowed claim to 392 residential mortgage backed securities trusts (the “Covered Trusts”) issued by affiliates of the Debtors during the period from 2004 to 2008. The RMBS Holders hold, or manage investments for holders of, more than $13 billion in outstanding RMBS securities issued by over 350 of the Covered Trusts.
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Crowell & Moring LLP has added two prominent litigators to its growing New York office roster. The additions are Litigation Group partners Edwin M. Baum, a seasoned New York litigator whose practice is concentrated on representing sophisticated business clients in multi-faceted commercial litigation from Proskauer Rose LLP, and Alan B. Howard, a proven litigator and trial lawyer with over 25 years experience handling domestic and international litigation and arbitration cases from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.
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Pillsbury today announced that Peter A. Baumgaertner has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice section as a partner in its New York office. With a broad, international practice spanning capital markets, infrastructure projects, commercial lending and securities, Baumgaertner is a perfect fit within several of Pillsbury’s strategic practice areas, including project finance, energy, capital markets and insolvency. He arrives from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and becomes the eighth partner Pillsbury has added in New York this year.
Tags: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | New YorkPillsbury today announced that Sarah Good, a well-known securities and consumer class action litigator in San Francisco, has joined the firm’s Litigation practice. Good was previously Chair of the Litigation Department at San Francisco’s Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, which combined with Arnold & Porter on January 1, and before that was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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