Clifford Chance adds Global Funds and Investment Management partner Susan Burkhardt in the US New York: Clifford Chance today announced that senior private funds attorney Susan Burkhardt will join the Firm’s Global Funds and Investment Management team as a partner in New York on May 1. Burkhardt comes to the firm after serving as Head of New Product Structuring in a Managing Director role at Apollo Global Management, inc.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, today announced that Shashank Krishna has joined the firm’s Global Projects Department as a partner. He will be based in the London office, acting for clients with a focus on Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The appointment of Mr. Krishna, who joins Baker Botts from McDermott Will & Emery in London, comes at a point when Baker Botts will be moving its London office from 41 Lothbury to 20 Fenchurch Street in June this year.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Paul E. Harner has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Finance & Bankruptcy practice group. Harner joins from Ballard Spahr LLP, where he led the restructuring practice in New York. Harner is the latest addition to Sheppard Mullin’s growing Finance & Bankruptcy practice, which has added nearly 20 attorneys nationwide in the last 12 months.
Seyfarth announced today the arrival of partner Paul Ferrillo to its Litigation department, global Privacy & Cybersecurity team, and Securities & Fiduciary Duty Litigation group in New York. Ferrillo was most recently a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in New York.
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Aric Wu has joined Cooley’s securities litigation practice as a partner in its New York office. Wu spent more than two decades at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and will continue to focus on securities litigation, corporate control contests, and other complex litigation at Cooley.
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Global law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces that Daniel Tristan has joined the Firm as a partner within the Finance practice in Houston. Daniel joins the firm from Baker Botts and will also be Texas Finance Team Leader.
Faegre Drinker announced today that Susan Moore has joined the firm as a partner in the finance and restructuring practice group in the London office. Moore comes to the firm from Stephenson Harwood, where she was head of the restructuring and insolvency practice. The firm also announced the addition of associate Bethan Griffith to the practice in London.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. continues the strategic expansion of its Trial Practice and Litigation Practice with the addition of Joe Mamounas as a shareholder in its Miami office. Mamounas’ practice is focused on domestic and international arbitration, corporate fraud and compliance, and complex business disputes. He joins Greenberg Traurig from the Miami office of Holland & Knight LLP.
