Danielle Garno, a transactional and litigation attorney who focuses on issues facing the fashion community, has joined Holland & Knight as partner in the firm’s Miami office. She provides clients with start-up phase and commercial advice and handles matters related to intellectual property and brand protection, new media and technologies, social media marketing, advertising and anti-counterfeiting, as well as general business litigation. She previously was a partner at Reed Smith.
Jonas Koponen has joined Cooley’s Brussels office as a partner in the firm’s global antitrust & competition practice group. He arrives from Linklaters, where he served as global head of the firm’s antitrust and foreign investment group and as global co‐head of its life sciences and healthcare sector team. Koponen is a highly regarded competition lawyer with a practice spanning complex transactional work, investigations and litigation.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice with the addition of Paul Yin as a partner in London. He joins White & Case from Skadden, where he was European counsel, and brings more than a decade of experience.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to grow its nationally-recognized Corporate Practice with two new additions: Elina Alperovich and Serena Y. Shi, who both join as shareholders in the firm’s New York office with a focus on private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Alperovich joins from Apollo Global Management Inc. and Shi comes from Latham & Watkins LLP.
Global law firm Clyde & Co continues to expand its Regulatory & Investigations offering with the Partner hire of Weiyi Tan in Singapore. Weiyi joins Clyde & Co’s Singapore office from Harry Elias LLP, formerly Eversheds Harry Elias LLP, and has previously been a Partner at Baker McKenzie.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Parag Patel has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Emerging Companies Practice, the Financial Institutions and Fintech Industry Groups, and as a member of the Corporate Department. Patel’s practice focuses on emerging payments, fintech, and related regulatory and transactional issues. Patel joins Latham from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington, D.C.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that litigation lawyer Justin VandenBout has joined as a Houston-based partner in the firm’s Products, Pharma, Medical and Mass Tort practice team. Joining from Chamberlain Hrdlicka, VandenBout maintains a nationwide litigation practice with a focus on commercial litigation, product liability litigation, insurance coverage and mass tort litigation.
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Alexis Werl, a partner in the criminal law and investigations practice, and Jonathan Trèves, a counsel, have joined the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice. The duo come to Eversheds from McDermott, Will & Emery in Paris.
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Akin Gump today announced that Graham Lovett has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Dubai office. Mr. Lovett, who joins Akin Gump from Gibson Dunn, is one of the foremost disputes practitioners in Dubai and is top ranked by both Chambers and The Legal 500.
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