Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Brian K. Kidd has joined the firm as a partner in its Investigations + White Collar Defense Group in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kidd joins Morrison & Foerster from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) Unit in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, having joined the DOJ in 2009. In this senior role, Mr. Kidd supervised a team of roughly 40 federal prosecutors investigating and prosecuting complex securities, commodities, and other major corporate fraud cases. Mr. Kidd oversaw cross-border and corporate prosecutions involving market manipulation, spoofing, insider trading, money laundering, bribery, cryptocurrency, accounting, and procurement fraud.
Cary Aronovitz is joining Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a partner after serving for six years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. He will focus his practice on government investigations, corporate compliance, complex commercial litigation, corporate and consumer fraud investigations, and class action defense.
Orrick announced today the addition of three rising stars to its global Corporate team as partners: private equity M&A advisor Leah Recht from Kirkland & Ellis and capital markets advisors Edward Dyson from Cooley and Mark Mushkin from Cravath.
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Global law firm Dentons is strengthening its Energy Regulatory practice in Dusseldorf with the recruitment of Dr. Florian-Alexander Wesche as a partner. With his extensive professional and industry experience, he will consolidate Dentons’ strategic focus on infrastructure and energy in Germany. Florian-Alexander Wesche was previously a partner responsible for energy law at Deloitte Legal.
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Dechert LLP announced today that Howard Levine and Jennifer Swan have joined the firm in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley, respectively, as partners in the Intellectual Property group, further expanding Dechert’s global life sciences capabilities. They both come to the firm from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Hendrik Viaene has joined the Firm’s international antitrust practice in Brussels as partner. He joins a dynamic, experienced and ambitious team, widely recognised for its outstanding credentials in defending multinational corporations in international cartels and regularly securing complex merger clearances in Europe. Hendrik joins from Deloitte Legal where he led the global Centre of Expertise in Competition and Regulatory Law.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Carr will join the firm as a partner in the London office. Carr will join from Herbert Smith Freehills and will continue his real estate finance practice at Gibson Dunn.
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Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Timothy R. Herman as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Herman joins the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Class Action and Employment Law practice groups. Herman joins the firm from Clark Hill PLC in Chicago.
