Squire Patton Boggs Strengthens Data Practice Leadership with Addition of Alan L. Friel

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that partner Alan L. Friel has joined the Firm as Deputy Chair of its Global Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice (Data Practice), resident in Los Angeles. Mr. Friel arrives from BakerHostetler, where he led the US Consumer Privacy practice, co-chaired the retail, restaurant and e-commerce industry initiative, and served as the California Digital Assets and Data Management Leader.

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Mark Segall Joins Dentons as a New Banking and Finance Partner

Mark Segall, a recognized lawyer with over 20 years of experience has joined Dentons as a partner in the Banking and Finance team in Warsaw. His experience covers a wide range of financial products, including acquisition and leveraged finance, structured commodity finance and project finance. He advises international clients on cross-border syndicated lending and specializes in natural resources, agricultural and logistics projects. Previously head of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) banking practice at CMS, at Dentons he will strengthen the team advising on cross-border projects, including those based on English law.

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Baker Botts Continues Washington, D.C. Growth, Welcoming Leading Energy Regulatory and Litigation Partners

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Michael Yuffee has joined the Energy Regulatory Section of the firm’s Global Projects Department as a partner, and Michael Loesch has joined as a partner in the Litigation Department. Both Mr. Yuffee and Loesch will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Both Mr. Yuffee and Mr. Loesch join the firm from the Washington, D.C. office of Winston & Strawn, where they were partners.

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Latham Adds Prominent Partner to its Highly Regarded Restructuring & Special Situations Practice in London

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Bruce Bell will join the London office as a partner in the Finance Department and the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice. Bell’s practice focuses on advising companies, sponsors, and financial institutions on complex financing, restructuring, and insolvency matters. Bell joins Latham & Watkins from Linklaters.

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Paul Hastings Further Advances Litigation Practice Growth in London

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that preeminent commercial litigator Alex Leitch has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in the Complex Litigation practice. He joins from Covington & Burling, where he was the co-chair of the London Dispute Resolution group. His arrival continues the strong growth of Paul Hastings’ global Litigation and Investigations practices, following the recent addition of Investigations and White Collar Defence partners Jonathan Pickworth and Jo Dimmock in London.

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McDermott Boosts Regulatory Bench by Adding Four Antitrust Veterans

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced that Lesli C. Esposito, Brian J. Boyle and Justin P. Murphy joined the Firm’s antitrust practice as partners based in Washington, DC. Timothy (Ty) C. Carson also joined as antitrust counsel. The group’s combined experience in private and government sectors provides clients with increased antitrust capabilities to tackle intricate enforcement policies emerging in a rapidly evolving, high-tech and post-pandemic environment. Prior to joining McDermott, Lesli served as co-head of DLA Piper’s global antitrust and competition group, where she worked alongside Brian. Justin most recently worked as a trial lawyer for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and previously worked in private practice for 15 years. Ty most recently served as attorney with the Federal Trade Commission’s Premerger Notification Office and specializes in Hart-Scott-Rodino filings.

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Prominent Data & Technology Transactions Partner Joins Latham in the Bay Area

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Michelle Ontiveros Gross has joined the firm’s Bay Area offices as a partner in the Data & Technology Transactions Practice. She advises clients on a wide range of technology-related matters, and counsels companies in connection with the development and protection of their technology assets, drawing on her breadth of experience in the industry. Her practice spans a variety of transactional, intellectual property, and privacy and data security matters, with a particular focus on complex technology transactions, cloud, SaaS, and outsourcing transactions, and large-scale M&A deals and capital markets offerings. Ms. Gross joins from Mayer Brown LLP in the Bay Area. 

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