Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Alexandra (Alex) Dapolito Dunn, the former Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, has joined the firm’s Environmental, Safety & Incident Response (ESIR) Section of the Litigation Department in the Washington, D.C. office.
Faegre Drinker announced today that Dylan Carson has joined the firm’s Denver and Washington, D.C. offices as partner in the antitrust practice of the firm’s litigation group. Carson was previously a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications section of the Antitrust Division, and a leader of three of DOJ’s most recent merger trials in federal court.
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Orrick announced today that Pete Elias has joined the firm as a partner in our Tax practice, based in Santa Monica. Pete is the 5th partner to join Orrick’s corporate team since January 2021. He joins the firm from Pillsbury.
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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that Murray Cox will join the Firm as a partner in the London office. Murray is currently a corporate partner at Slaughter and May. Murray advises on all aspects of corporate law with a particular focus on public M&A and private equity transactions. He has worked on a number of complex, high profile, cross-border transactions across a range of sectors including infrastructure, energy, financial services and healthcare.
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Global law firm Hogan Lovells has announced a series of strategic hires today, boosting its corporate and litigation capabilities in London. Patrick Sarch will be joining as a partner and will co-head the London M&A practice alongside Ben Higson. He joins from White & Case where he was co-lead of the Corporate practice in London and the firm’s global financial institutions industry group. In addition, a team of leading commercial litigators will join the firm’s Band 1 Global and London disputes practice, further building on a significant strength of the firm. Kevin Lloyd, Richard Lawton, Akima Paul Lambert and Ardil Salem will join as partners from Debevoise & Plimpton.
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K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, welcomes Marius Toime and Lucas Nicolet-Serra to the firm’s corporate practice. Toime joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and will be a partner. Nicolet-Serra joins from Simmons & Simmons and will be a counsel.
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Glynna Christian has joined Holland & Knight as a partner and head of global technology transactions. Ms. Christian is a business lawyer who partners with clients to bring creativity and solutions-oriented pragmatism to transactions involving the use of emerging and transformative technology and data. Previously, she practiced at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she was co-chair of the Global Technology Transactions practice. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has established an office in Nashville, Tenn., with the hiring of more than 25 lawyers across a variety of practices, including health care, litigation, corporate, intellectual property, finance, and construction, among others. The Nashville office – K&L Gates’ 24th in the United States and 45th worldwide – provides the firm and its clients access to one of the nation’s fastest-growing markets, including in such areas as health care, technology, and investment, and is expected to continue to expand during the coming months.
Among the lawyers joining K&L Gates in the launch of its Nashville office are 18 partners from such law firms as Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP; Butler Snow LLP; Dickinson Wright PLLC; and Bass, Berry & Sims PLC.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Brandon L. Van Grack as a partner in its National Security, Global Risk and Crisis Management, and Investigations + White Collar Defense Groups in Washington, D.C. Mr. Van Grack joins the firm after more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit and previously served as a lead prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
