Mayer Brown Continues West Coast Expansion With Financial Services Class Action Litigator Andrew Demko

Mayer Brown announced today that Andrew Demko joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Commercial Litigation and Consumer Litigation & Class Actions practices. Mr. Demko brings substantial experience in defending consumer class actions especially for financial services providers. He joins from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

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Hogan Lovells Continues to Expand M&A Practice in New York With the Addition of Partner Luke Iovine

Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce the continuing expansion of its Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) practice in New York with the arrival of Luke P. Iovine, III as a partner. Iovine will further strengthen the firm’s M&A team, which had an extraordinary year in 2021, having advised on some of the highest-profile transactions of the year, including Oracle Corporation’s US$28.3 billion acquisition of Cerner Corporation and IBM’s worldwide separation and reorganization of its managed infrastructure services business, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. Iovine is the fourth corporate partner to join the New York office this month. His arrival follows that of M&A partners Peter Cohen-Millstein and Megan Ridley-Kaye, and private equity partner Parik Dasgupta. He joins Hogan Lovells from the New York office of Paul Hastings, where he was a partner.

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Norton Rose Fulbright Adds Cutting-EdgeTechnology and Life Sciences Team in San Francisco, Including partners Kuan and Novak

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that a team of life sciences and intellectual property practitioners, including San Francisco partners Roger Kuan and Jason Novak, have joined the firm. Together, they will lead the firm’s charge into the digital health and precision medicine space, representing pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health insurance companies as well as technology startups and industry investors. Associate Dagim Tilahun and patent agent Noble Woo complete the arriving team.  Kuan and Novak join the firm from Haynes & Boone.

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Leading Infrastructure Private Equity Lawyer Joins Latham & Watkins in New York

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Jason Webber has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices, and as a member of the Corporate Department. Webber advises private equity firms and other investors in the development or acquisition and divestiture of infrastructure and energy businesses. Webber joins Latham from White & Case in New York.

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