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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Pillsbury’s Litigation Momentum Continues with Arrival of Energy Disputes Partner Willie Wood in Houston

William “Willie” D. Wood, widely regarded as one of the top trial lawyers in Texas, has joined Pillsbury’s growing Houston office as a partner. Legal 500 recognizes Wood as one of only four leading lawyers in the United States for Oil & Gas litigation. He was recently named 2022 Oil & Gas “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers—having received the honor twice previously for Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions Defense—and is also ranked by Chambers USA as one of the leading commercial litigators in Texas. Originally from Guatemala, he is a native Spanish speaker. He comes to Pillsbury after three years at McKool Smith, having spent the previous 35 years at Norton Rose Fulbright.

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