Donna K. Thiel, a healthcare lawyer with extensive experience in Medicare coverage, payment and compliance, and Theresa E. Weir, a lawyer specializing in healthcare regulatory matters, have joined King & Spalding’s healthcare practice as a partner and counsel, respectively, the firm announced today. They joined King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office from Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, where Thiel was a shareholder and co-chair of the drug, device and life sciences industry group, and Weir was a counsel.

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Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Piero Carbone has joined the firm’s growing Corporate Practice Group as a partner. Carbone will be based at Duane Morris in London. His arrival marks the expansion of the firm’s Private Equity Group, already active in the U.S. and in Asia, into Europe. Duane Morris is the first law firm to become Global Growth Partner of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and is a founding champion of the Middle Market Private Capital Leadership Forum. Carbone joins Duane Morris from Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

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Gilbert + Tobin has announced the appointment of Ben Macdonald as an M&A partner in its Melbourne office.

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Ben brings a wealth of experience in M&A and mining and resources. He was previously a senior Vice President in the Natural Resources Group at Deutsche Bank in Melbourne, where he advised on a number of high profile transactions including advising Tata Steel on its response to Rio Tinto’s A$3.9 billion takeover offer for Riversdale Mining Limited and Xstrata plc on its successful A$514 million takeover offer for Sphere Minerals Limited.

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International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) announced today the appointment of arbitration specialist Roman Khodykin. This partner hire will further strengthen the firm’s international arbitration practice, particularly those based or with business interests in Russia and the CIS. Roman’s appointment follows the hire of projects specialist Andrei Baev who joined BLP in 2011 thereby further increasing the opportunity to develop London based Russian related international arbitration work.

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The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today announced the addition of nine litigators from Elzufon Austin Reardon Tarlov & Mondell, P.A., including name partner Mark L. Reardon. The group will join the firm in the continued expansion of Eckert Seamans’ Wilmington, Delaware office.

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King & Wood Mallesons has added yet another high profile hybrid debt offer to its strong record, acting on NAB’s tier 2 subordinated note offer – NAB’s first domestic retail offering since 1999.

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