DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has appointed two new Partners, Bruno Richard and Mike Renshaw to its Real Estate and Insurance sectors respectively. Bruno joins from Eversheds where his expertise in construction and administrative law saw him assist clients on transactional and litigation matters as well as assist the African practice. Renshaw arrives from Keoghs where he was a Partner and headed up their Southampton office.
Fisher Phillips, one of the country’s preeminent labor and employment law firms representing employers, is pleased to announce that Susan Maupin Boone has joined the firm’s national Wage and Hour Practice as a partner in Columbia, SC.
Hean Koo, a highly-skilled patent prosecution lawyer immersed in cutting-edge technologies, has rejoined Pillsbury as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. He joins the firm from Mannava & Kang and will be based in Pillsbury’s Northern Virginia office.
Following the recent additions of its IP Agency in China, a team of intellectual property (IP) lawyers in Japan, and new IP partners in Melbourne, Portland, Orange County, Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago, global law firm K&L Gates LLP has now added Jeffrey R. Gargano as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice. Gargano joins K&L Gates’ Chicago office from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Jan Eltzschig and Heike Schmitz as corporate partners based in the firm’s Düsseldorf office in Germany. Jan and Heike join from DLA Piper in Cologne, where they were a partner and a counsel in the firm’s corporate group. Both partners will start on 1 October 2021. They will join together with Senior Associate Marjel Dema and Associate Janis Rentrop.
Prem N. Malali has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as a partner in its New York office. He joins from Murtha Cullina, where he was a partner.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Whitney McCollum as a privacy partner in the technology transactions, privacy, and sourcing practice. McCollum joins the firm’s Seattle office from multinational engineering firm AECOM, where she served as vice president, assistant general counsel, and chief IP and data protection counsel. She is the latest in a series of recent additions to the firm’s technology transactions and privacy practice, including Seattle associate Jane Petoskey in August and Seattle partner Jake Bernstein in May, among others. They join more than 20 lawyers across the firm’s technology transactions practice with privacy experience, along with other privacy practitioners in K&L Gates’ litigation, financial services, and health care practices.
Tags: K&L Gates LLP | Seattle
Sarah Sellers has joined Cooley’s public companies practice group as a partner in New York. Arriving from WilmerHale, Sellers has extensive experience advising public companies on a broad range of corporate, securities, transactional and governance matters.
Tags: Cooley LLP | New York