Husch Blackwell announced today the continued growth of its national Consumer Financial Services practice with the addition of a three-attorney litigation team led by partner Matt Manning. Based in Houston, the group joins from McGlinchey Stafford.
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King & Spalding announced today that nine litigation partners have joined the firm, expanding its trial bench and deepening its capabilities in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. The group joins King & Spalding from Winston & Strawn. Led by preeminent Texas trial lawyer Tom Melsheimer, group includes Steven Stodghill, Natalie Arbaugh, and four other partners in Dallas – a major build-out of the firm’s presence there – one in Charlotte, one in Washington.
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Winston & Strawn LLP announced today the addition of David Love to the firm’s Chicago office. He joins the firm’s Transactions Department as a partner in the Finance Practice. Love comes to the firm from Kirkland & Ellis.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Thoreau Bartmann as a partner in its Washington, DC office. He joins the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he formerly served as Co-Chief Counsel of the Division of Investment Management (IM). He has also held a variety of other positions at the Commission, including as Senior Policy Adviser to the head of the Asset Management Unit of the Division of Enforcement and as a Branch Chief for the Rulemaking Office.
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Sidley is pleased to announce that Ivana Rouse has joined the firm as a partner in its Investment Funds practice group in Houston. She joins from Latham & Watkins LLP, where she was a partner in their Corporate Department and member of the Investment Funds Practice.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced a powerful expansion of its business practice with the addition of an impressive group of corporate, private equity, healthcare, finance and tax lawyers who further enhance the firm’s robust transactional capabilities. Andrew Smolik and Michael Flood join Norton Rose Fulbright’s St. Louis office, as Seth Aigner, Virginia Duong and Gordon Klein arrive in Chicago. The group arrive at the firm from Polsinelli.
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Akin announced today that Richard Wright has joined the firm as a tax partner in its New York office, expanding the firm’s tax equity, project development, tax credit transfer and equipment leasing experience in the renewable energy and energy transition space. Wright joins Akin from Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, has added Cody Carper as a partner in its Houston office, where he will serve as co-chair of the Oil and Gas Practice, strengthening the firm’s capabilities in upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions driven by private equity investment. Carper joins from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he led complex energy transactions for private equity sponsors and management teams, as well as public and private oil and gas companies.
Gibson Dunn announced today that Blake Estes has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its preeminent Investment Funds Practice Group. Blake advises asset managers and broker-dealers through all aspects of the structuring, development and distribution of retail investment products, including interval funds, tender offer funds, Business Development Companies (BDCs), and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Estes arrives at Gibson from Alston & Bird LLP.
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