Hunton & Williams LLP announces Jeffrey M. Sullivan has joined the firm as a partner with the firm’s real estate capital markets practice. A former partner at DLA Piper, Sullivan focuses primarily on the real estate industry, regularly advising investment banks, public companies, including REITs and their boards of directors, private investment funds and other private businesses on capital raising, investment and other strategic transactions.

Lindquist & Vennum PLLP announced today that it has opened an office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  The expansion will allow Lindquist & Vennum to broaden its already significant representation of business, banking, and trusts and estates clients in South Dakota.  Sioux Falls attorneys Lee Magnuson, Mary Akkerman, Amy Arndt, Dan Fritz, Brian Kirby, Amy Ross Lauck and Heath Oberloh are moving their practices to the new office.  Magnuson, a prominent Sioux Falls lawyer, will be the partner-in-charge of the new office, which joins the firm’s existing offices in Minneapolis and Denver.  Lindquist & Vennum, with nearly 200 attorneys, has earned quality rankings in a number of practice areas.  The firm maintains a strong commitment to pro bono and community service, with 100% attorney participation at levels that meet or exceed state and national pro bono standards.

Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that nationally recognized criminal defense attorney Daniel D. Rubinstein, as well as noted technology, media and intellectual property litigator Paul D. McGrady, Jr., have joined its litigation practice in Chicago as partners. Rubinstein is a decorated former Assistant U.S. Attorney for both Los Angeles and Chicago, having been awarded the Department of Justice’s prestigious Director’s Award for Superior Performance and twice having received the Chicago Crime Commission’s “Stars of Distinction” award. McGrady is a recognized authority on the law governing the intersection of information technology and intellectual property, having authored McGrady on Domain Names, the three-volume definitive treatise on domain name law, and McGrady on Social Media, both of which are published by Lexis Nexis. The World Trademark Review describes McGrady as having “established himself as “a leading expert” in the area of domain names. WTR ranks McGrady in both contentious and non-contentious work.