John-Paul Motley has joined Cooley as a Los Angeles-based partner in the firm’s public companies practice group. Arriving from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was chair of the firm’s capital markets practice and formerly served as a member of its policy committee and as managing partner of its Los Angeles office, Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome Nina Bianchi Skinner to the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group in Houston. Nina has a notable track record as a trusted corporate and M&A adviser to energy, manufacturing, industrial, and services companies of all sizes, from local businesses to multinational corporations. She is skilled in navigating progressively complex business transactions with clear solutions for clients, and her arrival marks the next step in Blank Rome’s expansion to meet the dynamic needs of the firm’s clients in Houston and nationally. Nina joins Blank Rome from Liskow & Lewis where she was a shareholder.
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Dentons has recruited Simon Prendergast as a partner in the firm’s UK Banking and Finance Division. One of the leading asset based lending and receivables financing lawyers in the UK, ranked as a leading individual in both Legal 500 and Chambers, Simon joins the London office from Addleshaw Goddard where he has been a partner since 2013.
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Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Christopher Thomson as a partner in its Global Corporate Practice in London. Mr. Thomson joins from the energy practice at Dentons.
Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod (JHKM) is pleased to announce that Ben Feuchter has rejoined the firm’s New Mexico office as a partner. Feuchter, who became a lawyer with the firm upon earning his law degree in 1999, focuses his practice on business law and real estate matters, including both transactional and litigation legal services. He is also experienced in complex and sensitive tort matters and is widely known as a leading attorney in New Mexico’s emerging cannabis industry.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has appointed Howie Farn as a partner. He will be based in Hong Kong. Howie Farn joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a capital markets partner, focusing on U.S. securities transactions.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of four partners to the Transactions Practice Group: Merrill Kraines, Todd Kornfeld and Anand Saha in New York and Sunyi Snow in Dallas. Merrill and Todd join from Troutman Pepper. Anand joins from Clifford Chance, where he was co-head of the firm’s US Technology group. Sunyi joins from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Katten announced today that Julie Lee has joined the firm as a partner in its New York Real Estate practice where she will advise clients on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. Lee joins Katten form the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
