Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Joseph M. Karp, Lisa A. Cottle, Thomas W. Solomon and Christine A. Kolosov have joined the firm as partners in the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance industry team. Karp, Cottle and Solomon will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and Kolosov will be based in the Los Angeles office. The group joins from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Akin Gump is pleased to announce that corporate lawyer Jason Koenig has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Mr. Koenig is a seasoned mergers and acquisitions lawyer with extensive experience in private equity and distressed M&A transactions and shareholder activism. His practice comprises M&A, private equity investments, joint ventures, and cross-border and restructuring transactions, with a particular focus on matters relating to corporate governance and shareholder activism. He comes to Akin Gump from McDermott Will & Emery.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | New York
Skadden is pleased to announce that Raymond Bogenrief has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in its Chicago office. Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Bogenrief was a partner at White & Case LLP.
Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate practice with the addition of Paulo Varnieri as a partner in Washington, D.C. Mr. Varnieri represents clients in connection with cross-border and domestic corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity investments and financing, particularly in the infrastructure and transportation sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, he was General Counsel for CCR USA.
Nicholas Davis has joined Cooley’s mergers & acquisitions practice as a partner in Seattle. Arriving from Perkins Coie, he will play an integral role in supporting Cooley’s companies platform and its growing buy-side practice.
Tags: Cooley LLP | Chicago | Seattle
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that the global law firm is expanding to Chicago as its 12th US location and 53rd office worldwide. Norton Rose Fulbright will be the first major law firm to base itself in Chicago’s vibrant Fulton Market District. The new office will be a modern and progressive workspace with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Focused on technology transactions, intellectual property and privacy and data security, the group of Daniel Farris, Chrisotpher Hines, Joe McClendon, Francesca Cardillo, Erica Cook, Alex Katsulis, Nidhi Narielwala, Meghan Tierney, Ross and Schmidt-Iverson join from K&L Gates. Coming from DLA Piper, Sameer Ghaznavi joins the firm’s world-leading projects practice. Andrew Cripe and Mary Kathryn Curry arrive from Polsinelli with decades of experience in employment and labor law.
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Jonathan Ishee, a health care data privacy attorney with extensive knowledge around the intersection of technology and health care, has joined Troutman Pepper’s Health Sciences Transactional Department as a partner. He joins the firm from McGuireWoods.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charlotte Jacobsen will join the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Intellectual Property Practice Group. Jacobsen, formerly a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, will continue her patent litigation practice, focusing on life sciences, pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent and licensing disputes.
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