DLA Piper today announced that S. Andrew Pharies has joined the firm as a partner in the Trusts and Estates group of the San Diego office.  Pharies is joined by associate Michelle C. Glasser. Pharies and Glasser both move to DLA Piper from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where Pharies was the head of the firm’s Private Client Group.

Attorney Rick Berg has joined Butzel Long as a shareholder in the firm’s Detroit office.  Mr. Berg concentrates his practice on commercial law and commercial litigation.

Clifford Chance advised a consortium of banks, led by the joint lead managers Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Raiffeisen Bank International on the issue and listing of two syndicated bonds by the Republic of Austria.

Litigator and former Assistant US Attorney Amy Conway-Hatcher today joined Kaye Scholer as a White Collar Litigation and Internal Investigations Partner in Kaye Scholer’s Washington, D.C. office.

Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of four attorneys to the firm’s Intellectual Property Group to grow its work in the generic pharmaceutical patent arena. The team includes partner Mark T. Jansen of San Francisco and partner Cedric C.Y. Tan, senior counsel Neil M. McCarthy, and counsel Kristin M. Cooklin of Washington, D.C. The highly esteemed team of litigators and IP counselors join from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, with the exception of McCarthy, who joins from private practice. All were formerly attorneys at Townsend and Townsend and Crew.