Dentons Significantly Enhances Insurance Capabilities With The Addition of Nine-Strong Team in Canada

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Canada-Dentons has significantly strengthened its insurance capabilities by adding a team of nine lawyers and legal professionals in Canada. The team joins from Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP and includes five partners, three associates and one paraprofessional with expertise spanning corporate, regulatory and litigation. The team, led by partner Laurie LaPalme and based across Dentons’ Toronto and Calgary offices, will provide corporate and regulatory advice to insurance sector clients, and includes partners Derek Levinsky and Marisa Coggin, associates Taschina Ashmeade and Katie-May O’Donnell, as well as law clerk April Campbell (all based in Toronto). 

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Tags:  Dentons | Calgary | Toronto

Ashurst Boosts International Projects Offering With Senior Appointment in Singapore

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Global law firm Ashurst is pleased to announce that Andrew Roche has joined the firm as a partner in the international projects group, based in Singapore. Joining from Latham & Watkins, where he has been a partner since 2014, Andrew is one of Asia’s leading project finance lawyers with more than 15 years of experience advising on the development, project financing and acquisition of energy, resources and infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Faegre Drinker Continues Growth with Addition of Two Partners in Chicago

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Faegre Drinker announced today that Lenny Asaro and Alison Baldwin have joined the firm as partners in Chicago. Asaro, a member of the construction and real estate litigation practice, comes to the firm from Dinsmore. Baldwin joins the firm’s intellectual property practice from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, where she held senior leadership positions.

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Tags:  Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | Chicago

Real Estate Finance Lawyer Jonathan Kurry Joins Reed Smith as a Partner in Miami

Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Reed Smith today announced that real estate finance lawyer Jonathan Kurry has joined the firm as a partner in its Financial Industry Group in Miami. Kurry, who previously served as a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth, brings to the firm more than 25 years of experience assisting global clients in the development, financing, leasing, operation and sale of real estate.
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Cooley Strengthens European Cyber/Data/Privacy Team

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Guadalupe Sampedro, an international data protection lawyer with more than 20 years of experience, has joined the firm as partner in London. Sampedro specializes in fintech and payments, and she also has significant experience resolving complex regulatory matters for leading multinational companies in other industries. The addition of Sampedro complements the growth of the firm’s preeminent global cyber/data/privacy practice. She joins Cooley from Bird & Bird, where she was a partner in its privacy & data protection group in both London and Madrid. Previously, Sampedro served as PayPal’s EU data protection officer and privacy director for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

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Tags:  Cooley LLP | London

Former Mississippi U.S. Attorney Joins Phelps

Monday, February 1, 2021

Jackson, Mississippi – Mike Hurst, the immediate past U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, has become a litigation partner at Phelps, the firm announced today. Hurst, who will work from the Jackson office, joins three other former U.S. Attorneys in Phelps’s acclaimed litigation group.

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Tags:  Phelps Dunbar LLP | Jackson

Brian Booker Returns to Gordon & Rees as Partner in Phoenix Office

Monday, February 1, 2021

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes back Brian Booker as a partner in the firm’s Phoenix office. Booker joins the firm’s Insurance, Product & General Liability, Professional Liability Defense, Environmental/Toxic Tort, and Commercial Litigation practice groups. Booker re-joins the firm after serving as Vice President and General Counsel at Avnet, a major global distributor of electronic components.

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Tags:  Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP | Phoenix

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