BakerHostetler announces that Brian McEvoy and Brian Rafferty have joined the firm as partners in its Atlanta office. They, together with an anticipated team of associates and counsel, will join the firm’s White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team. Their arrival further deepens the firm’s strong Healthcare Industry team and Litigation Practice Group. They both arrive at BakerHostetler from Polsinelli PC in Atlanta.
Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that it is expanding its platform with the addition of a capital markets team and the opening of an office in Milwaukee, the firm’s first in the state. The incoming capital markets team is an integrated and seasoned group of M&A, securities, finance, and health care attorneys including Kate Bechen, who will serve as the Office Managing Member. The office will be located in the Milwaukee Center at 111 E Kilbourn Avenue.
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King & Spalding today announced it is opening an office in Miami, Florida. The Miami office, which will be the firm’s 23rd office globally, will extend the reach and capabilities across a number of the firm’s trial, transactional and governmental practices. Partner Randy Bassett will serve as its office managing partner.
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McGuireWoods continues the expansion of its securities enforcement and litigation team with the arrival of Washington, D.C., partner Brian J. Baltz, a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney with significant experience in regulatory issues that cut across financial institution clients’ broker-dealer, investment adviser and bank fiduciary businesses. He joins McGuireWoods from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Global law firm Goodwin announced today that it has extended its leading Antitrust & Competition practice into Europe with the addition of partner Sarah Jordan, resident in the London office. Jordan will join upon completion of her notice period. Jordan joins from the London office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Fish & Richardson announced today that Helen Baca, Ph.D., has joined the Boston office as a principal in the firm’s life sciences group. Baca joins Fish from Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP, and previously served as in-house counsel at Sandia National Laboratories.
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Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that its industry-leading intellectual property and technology transactions practices are expanding again with the arrival of two leading lawyers: Edward H. Sadtler as partner in New York and Emily M. Karlberg (Lieberman) as counsel in San Francisco. Sadtler joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, while Lieberman comes to the firm from Gunderson Dettmer.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of David Lewis as a partner in London. Lewis joins White & Case from Clifford Chance, where he was a partner and co-head of the mining & metals group.
Jared Wilner has joined Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in the Firm’s Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice Group, bringing extensive experience advising insurance industry clients on a range of compliance and transactional matters. Wilner joins Locke Lord from Clyde & Co.
