Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome seasoned sports law attorney Gregg E. Clifton as a partner in the firm’s national Entertainment, Media & Sports and Labor & Employment Practices. Mr. Clifton joins from Jackson Lewis, where he served as the co-chair of its Collegiate and Professional Sports Industry Practice Group for the past 11 years. He was recently named by Best Lawyers in America as a 2022 Sports Lawyer of the Year.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli is pleased to announce that Arindam Kar has joined the firm as a shareholder in the St. Louis office. Kar, an attorney with more than 20 years of experience, will be a member of Polsinelli’s national Antitrust practice. Throughout his extensive career, he has assisted numerous global clients in matters of antitrust compliance, counseling, and government investigations. Prior to joining the firm, Kar was operating from the St. Louis office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced Daniel Hatten has joined the Firm’s Private Client practice as a partner based in New York. Dan specializes in a range of estate and wealth planning and fiduciary litigation matters. Prior to joining the Firm, Dan was at Proskauer Rose LLP.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP added Real Estate Practice Attorney Ashley Aten as a shareholder in its Dallas office. Aten joins the firm from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Goodwin, the global law firm serving innovators and investors, today announced that Esther Chiang joined the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice as a partner, resident in the New York office. Chiang joins Goodwin from the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
The transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson is opening an office in New York with the addition of a prestigious group of lawyers from the intellectual property boutique firm Abelman Frayne & Schwab. With this year marking the fifth anniversary of the transatlantic combination that created Womble Bond Dickinson, the firm’s continued growth has included new offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Houston, and an expanded presence in Palo Alto. The New York-based trademark, licensing, and copyright team will be led by partners Julianne Abelman and Marie Anne Mastrovito, who will be joined by of counsel Erica R. Halstead, senior counsels Lori B. Cohen and Anthony A. Coppola, and six paralegals.
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Glen Trudel, a top financial services, payments, and business attorney, has joined Troutman Pepper as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in Wilmington, DE. Trudel is one of 34 financial services-focused attorneys who have joined the firm since January, including seven partners announced in February and two partners announced last month. The firm has more than 200 attorneys who regularly advise financial services providers. Trudel joins Troutman Pepper from Ballard Spahr, where he was a partner, and brings more than 30 years’ experience counseling financial institutions, marketplace lenders, fintech entities, and other companies on both regulatory and transactional matters.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome leading international trade and national security attorney Anthony Rapa as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office where he will lead the firm’s National Security team. Working closely with the firm’s Aerospace, Defense and Government Services industry group, Anthony will counsel companies, private equity sponsors, and financial institutions on sanctions and export control-related matters in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, and regulatory matters. A dual U.S./UK-qualified practitioner, he joins Blank Rome from Kirkland & Ellis where he was a partner.
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Global law firm Ropes & Gray has strengthened its global private equity offering with the additions of Dan Oates, Simon Saitowitz and Angela Becker as partners. Dan, Simon and Angela join Ropes & Gray from the London office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP.
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