Holland & Knight has acquired D.C.-based firm Millstein & Taylor, and in the process its Intellectual Property Group gains a prominent biotech patent lawyer. Name partner and respected life sciences attorney Larry S. Millstein joins the firm’s D.C. office as partner. Name partner and transactional lawyer Robin Taylor, also joins and will practice in the firm’s Northern Virginia office in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. The addition of Millstein is just the latest move in a series of lateral hires by Holland & Knight’s IP group, which added eight lawyers last year. With a Ph.D. in molecular biology and chemistry, Millstein’s practice focuses on technology and intellectual property portfolio development and strategy. Taylor has more than 20 years of experience in matters relating to business transactions, taxation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property law, and employment law.
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Wesley Yang, a tax attorney and certified public accountant, joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC as a partner. He has 30 years’ experience in international tax and estate planning, corporate/commercial matters, nonprofit and health care tax issues, and the environmental and energy fields. Rawle & Henderson also gained two new partners; Michael D. Heintzman and Jeanne Welch Sopher joined the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Heintzman specializes in the defense of product liability, medical malpractice and toxic tort cases. He joins the firm after 14 years of being a partner with Heintzman, Warren, Wise & Fornella P.C. Sopher’s practice focuses on medical professional liability, toxic tort and product liability.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is moving from its 165,000 square foot space at 155 N. Wacker in Chicago to 333 W. Wacker. The new office takes up six floors, or about 15 per cent of the building. Areas of practice in the Chicago office include negotiated acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, contested takeovers, public and private equity and debt financing, leveraged leasing, restructuring and reorganization, federal income tax work, large-scale litigation, communications, and real estate finance, development and restructuring. Skadden’s Chicago office is just one of the firm’s 22 offices worldwide.
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Pepper Hamilton has added to its IP group again – this time the lawyers come from Cozen O’Connor. Earlier this month, five other IP attorneys joined the Boston office. From Cozen, partners Mark DeLuca and Paul K. Legaard joined the firm’s Berwyn, PA, office and were followed by four other intellectual property attorneys and one patent agent. DeLuca commented that he and the group wanted a firm with a more active life sciences business practice. Sources from Pepper Hamilton report that the firm still is seeking to expand its intellectual property practice; likewise, Cozen is looking for replacements for its losses in the IP department.
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