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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Global law firm Nixon Peabody continues to expand its Entertainment team with the addition of Carron Joan Mitchell, who joins as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mitchell comes to the firm from Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk LLP.
Dameon Rivers, a top attorney in the housing finance space, has joined Troutman Pepper’s industry-leading Multifamily Housing Finance Practice Group in Washington, D.C. Rivers, who has noted expertise in affordable and seniors housing, joins the firm from Ballard Spahr where he co-led the firm’s Housing Finance Group.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that trial and appellate attorney Donald Burke has joined the Firm’s Washington office where he is a partner in the Litigation Department. Donald was previously a partner at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner. He also previously served as a law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Raymond M. Kethledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
