Eddie Jauregui, a former prosecutor and deputy chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, has joined Holland & Knight’s Los Angeles office as a litigation partner in the White Collar Defense and Investigations Team. He brings substantial experience to the firm acquired though work on high-profile criminal investigations, trials and appeals of fraud, bribery, extortion, public corruption, money laundering, tax and kickback cases.
King & Spalding has recruited Patrick McPherson and Randall Walker as partners in its Trial & Global Disputes Practice, based in Dubai, to expand the firm’s construction, energy and infrastructure disputes offering in the Middle East. McPherson, who previously worked in-house at Dutco/Balfour Beatty (Dubai) as Senior Legal Counsel, and Walker were most recently partners at CMS.
Bracewell (UK) LLP announced today that Alistair Calvert has joined the firm’s energy disputes team as a partner in the London office. Calvert was previously a partner at Pinsent Masons LLP.
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Ryan Preston Dahl has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in its Chicago and New York offices. Ryan expands Ropes & Gray’s business restructuring team, which represents clients in a broad range of financial restructuring matters, including in- and out-of-court proceedings. Prior to joining the firm, Dahl practiced with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP in New York.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Christopher J. Rillo, a prominent lawyer in ERISA litigation, has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in the San Francisco office. Mr. Rillo joins Baker Botts from Jenner & Block, where he was a member of the firm’s ERISA Practice.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery continues to expand its New York litigation practice to meet growing client demand with the addition of Carlos Ortiz, a white-collar defense veteran serving global clients in high-stakes investigations. Prior to joining McDermott, he was a trial partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and served as white-collar practice chair at previous firms.
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Today, Greenberg Traurig continues one if its core global and European strategies by announcing the imminent addition of David van Dijk and his team in Amsterdam and London. Van Dijk leads a Dutch Tier 1 Real Estate team and has been the head of the International Real Estate Practice and member of the Supervisory Board of the NautaDutilh firm based in Amsterdam, where he has led a robust practice for many years, in both transactional real estate and disputes involving the asset class.
Kennedys has appointed partner Tobin Ashby to its growing corporate insurance, financial regulation and products practice as part of a strategic drive to expand its non-contentious services to the insurance sector. Tobin, who joins from Pinsent Masons and will be based in London, has over 18 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including a decade working in-house for a global insurance group.
