Corporate and M&A attorney Waajid Siddiqui has joined Holland & Knight’s New York office as a partner. He focuses on upstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, as well as acquisitions and divestitures of lending and leasing platforms and portfolios of financial assets. Mr. Siddiqui was previously a partner with Shearman & Sterling.
Husch Blackwell is pleased that Elizabeth Massaro has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in its Financial Services & Capital Markets industry group. She joins Husch Blackwell from the Chicago office of White & Case LLP.
King & Spalding today announced that Sara Brinkmann has joined the firm as a partner on the Healthcare team in the Houston office. Brinkmann joins from Reed Smith.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Svetlana S. Gans has joined the firm as a partner. Previously Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and a former Chief of Staff for Acting Federal Trade Commission Chair Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Gans joins the Antitrust and Competition; Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation; and Public Policy Practice Groups at Gibson Dunn.
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Global law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces the appointment of Samuel (Sam) Cooper as a litigation and commercial arbitration partner in Houston. Sam Cooper joins Shearman & Sterling from Paul Hastings in Houston.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its Minneapolis office with 11 lawyers, including four partners, joining its Commercial Litigation and Products, Pharma, Medical and Mass Tort teams. These lawyers join from Blackwell Burke P.A., a boutique trial law firm recently honored as Benchmark Litigation’s “Minnesota Firm of the Year” for the sixth consecutive year. Joining Norton Rose Fulbright as partners are Jerry Alcazar, S. Jamal Faleel, Benjamin W. Hulse and Mary S. Young. Of counsel Corey L. Gordon, senior counsel Emily Ambrose, Andy Crowder and Charmaine K. Harris, senior associate Ted Hartman and associates Gene Hummel and Amarachi Ihejirika complete the group.
Experienced banking and financial services attorneys Josh McNulty and Rachael Craven have joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Dallas, where they will advise clients on an array of corporate, regulatory, product development, technology and fintech matters. As the newest additions to the firm’s Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory (FICR) group, McNulty joins the firm as a partner from Bracewell, LLP and Craven, who was with Hunton Andrews Kurth for four years before joining the legal department at Apple Inc., returns as a counsel.
Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP today announced the expansion of its Tax Practice Group with partner Erika Labelle in Denver. She joins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner where she served as the co-leader of its U.S. Tax Group. Labelle is the sixth partner to join Akerman’s national tax team in six months.
