Troutman Pepper has added two partners with decades of experience working with leading emerging growth companies and investors operating in the life sciences, health care, and technology industries. Geoff Starr and Abe Kwon join from Cooley where Starr was a corporate partner and Kwon was a senior associate.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Jason Breen has joined the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office, where he will focus on representing technology and life sciences clients. Breen’s addition reflects both the firm’s ongoing efforts to expand its corporate department and sustained demand from technology and life sciences clients for transactional experience. Most recently, Breen was a partner at Goodwin Procter.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Tax Practice with the addition of Austin Wyker as a shareholder in its Dallas office. Wyker joins the firm from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher Peponis (Houston) and Hamad Al-Hoshan (New York) have joined the firm as partners in the Project Development & Finance Practice, and the Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group and as members of the Finance Department. Both join Latham from White & Case LLP.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced the addition of Vincent Naveaux, who has joined as a national partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department. He is based in Willkie’s Brussels office. Vincent is a litigator with particular experience advising corporate and investment funds in corporate dispute resolution and governance matters. Prior to joining Willkie, Vincent was a partner and owner of his own boutique practice. He previously practiced at several international law firms, including White & Case, Allen & Overy and Linklaters. Vincent is dual qualified to practice in Belgium (Avocat) and Luxembourg (Avocat à la Cour).
King & Spalding has hired leading Asia-based International Arbitration lawyer Nils Eliasson as a partner in the firm’s Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group. He will be based in the Singapore office. Eliasson was most recently a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong, where he led the firm’s Asia International Arbitration practice.
Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Intellectual Property Practice Group with partner Jeffrey Toney in Atlanta. Toney jones the firm from the Atlanta office of McDermott, Will & Emery.
To meet increasing client demand for intellectual property and emerging technology legal counsel, Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts as a shareholder in the firm’s Boston office. Tibbetts will focus his practice on Intellectual Property & Technology (IP) and Patent Prosecution, including Life Sciences & Medical Technology. He joins the firm from Wolf Greenfield & Sacks. In addition, the Boston office recently added Maksim Y. Mints to the IP & Technology Practice as a patent agent.
