King & Spalding today announced it is opening an office in Miami, Florida. The Miami office, which will be the firm’s 23rd office globally, will extend the reach and capabilities across a number of the firm’s trial, transactional and governmental practices. Partner Randy Bassett will serve as its office managing partner.
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McGuireWoods continues the expansion of its securities enforcement and litigation team with the arrival of Washington, D.C., partner Brian J. Baltz, a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney with significant experience in regulatory issues that cut across financial institution clients’ broker-dealer, investment adviser and bank fiduciary businesses. He joins McGuireWoods from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Global law firm Goodwin announced today that it has extended its leading Antitrust & Competition practice into Europe with the addition of partner Sarah Jordan, resident in the London office. Jordan will join upon completion of her notice period. Jordan joins from the London office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Fish & Richardson announced today that Helen Baca, Ph.D., has joined the Boston office as a principal in the firm’s life sciences group. Baca joins Fish from Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP, and previously served as in-house counsel at Sandia National Laboratories.
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Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that its industry-leading intellectual property and technology transactions practices are expanding again with the arrival of two leading lawyers: Edward H. Sadtler as partner in New York and Emily M. Karlberg (Lieberman) as counsel in San Francisco. Sadtler joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, while Lieberman comes to the firm from Gunderson Dettmer.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of David Lewis as a partner in London. Lewis joins White & Case from Clifford Chance, where he was a partner and co-head of the mining & metals group.
Jared Wilner has joined Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in the Firm’s Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice Group, bringing extensive experience advising insurance industry clients on a range of compliance and transactional matters. Wilner joins Locke Lord from Clyde & Co.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Pete O’Hare as a partner in the finance practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Watson Farley & Williams LLP.
King & Spalding today announced that Tamra Moore has joined the firm as a partner on the Healthcare team in the Washington, D.C., office. Most recently, Moore was corporate counsel for litigation at Northrop Grumman, where she managed all facets of a diverse docket of complex litigation and other disputes.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Denis Segota has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate and Finance practice group. His arrival will bolster the firm’s capabilities in the life sciences and health care transactions space in the Americas. Segota, who joins the firm from Baker & McKenzie where he was a partner, brings more than 20 years of experience in counselling clients in the life sciences industry.
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