Cooley Expands Capital Markets Practice in Asia

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Tim Pitrelli has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s capital markets practice in Singapore. Arriving from Goldman Sachs, where he served as a Singapore-based executive director and senior counsel in the investment banking division, Pitrelli brings significant experience in IPOs, follow‐on offerings, and other regional and international cross-border transactions, as well as a comprehensive knowledge of the Singapore and Southeast Asia markets. A veteran of the Singapore legal industry, Pitrelli moved from the United States in early 2008 and has been based in Singapore for almost 14 years.

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Former Assistant United States Attorney Timothy Storino joins Dentons’ Expanding Litigation Team in Chicago

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces today that Timothy Storino has joined the Firm’s Litigation practice as partner. Storino brings more than 15 years of litigation experience that includes, white-collar defense and investigations, complex civil litigation matters and commercial litigation. Storino served in the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois for approximately nine years. 

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SEC Official Scott Mascianica Joins Holland & Knight in Dallas

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

 Scott Mascianica, a former Assistant Regional Director for Enforcement in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Fort Worth Regional Office, has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Dallas office. Mr. Mascianica, who will practice in the firm’s Litigation Section, has extensive experience supervising, investigating and litigating some of the highest profile and first-of-their-kind SEC enforcement matters in the country.

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Dentons Hires Leading Contentious Regulatory Partner in London

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Dentons has recruited Chris Brennan as a partner in the firm’s UK Disputes Division. A contentious regulatory specialist ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500 and also recommended by Chambers, Chris joins the London office from White & Case where he has been a partner since 2018.

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King & Spalding Bolsters Global Professional Liability & Accountant Defense Practice in D.C. and New York

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

King & Spalding today announced that Raphael Larson and Gary Adamson have joined the firm as partners on the Special Matters and Government Investigations team. As leading practitioners representing accounting and consulting firms and their professionals in high-stakes regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, the pair adds strength to the firm’s world-class Professional Liability practice. Larson will be based in the Washington, D.C., office and Adamson in the New York office. Larson and Adamson both join King & Spalding from McDermott Will & Emery.

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