Three New International Arbitration Partners in One Week – Paris Duo Join Transatlantic Partner Addition to IDR Practice

Friday, October 9, 2020

Squire Patton Boggs has expanded its International Dispute Resolution (IDR) Practice with the addition of two partners in Paris. Sabrina Aïnouz and Jérôme Lehucher spent the last 13 years practicing international arbitration together, first at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and later at DWF. Their arrival follows an earlier announcement this week that Michelle Glassman Bock joined the firm’s IDR Practice as a partner from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, splitting her time between its Brussels and Washington DC offices.

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Licensing And Collaborations Partner Adam Bellack Joins Goodwin’s Life Sciences Platform

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Global law firm Goodwin announced today the addition of Adam Bellack as partner in the firm’s Life Sciences practice, resident in the Washington, D.C., office. Before joining Goodwin, Bellack practiced at international law firm Hogan Lovells, where he served as Americas co-head of the firm’s life sciences transactions team.

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Greenberg Traurig Adds Chia-Feng Lu as Shareholder in Health Care & FDA and Life Sciences in Washington, D.C.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has added Chia-Feng Lu as a shareholder in its Health Care & FDA Practice and Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group. He will spend most of his time in Washington, D.C. and the Tokyo/Osaka area, but will also regularly visit the other parts of the U.S., such as Boston; as well as European countries. Lu focuses his multi-national practice on guiding life sciences companies and emerging technology companies in non-life sciences fields through the regulatory and transactional law that applies to their products, technologies, services, and business strategies. He worked on several products based on Nobel-winning science in the past two decades respectively, and one of them has successfully reached the blockbuster status. Lu comes from Baker McKenzie.

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Accomplished Bankruptcy Litigator Theresa Foudy Joins Morrison & Foerster’s Leading Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

 Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Theresa Foudy has joined the firm as a partner in its Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group (BRIG) in New York. Recognized as one of the leading bankruptcy litigators in the United States, Ms. Foudy’s arrival further reinforces the firm’s market-leading BRIG practice and further expands the firm’s premier litigation capabilities. Further, the addition of Ms. Foudy underscores the continued expansion of Morrison & Foerster’s New York office. She is the sixth partner to join the office since the start of the year, following in the footsteps of David Fertig, Haima Marlier, Mitchell Presser, Leonora Shalet, and Omar Pringle. Foudy joins the firm from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in New York.

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Orrick Makes Fourth Partner Addition to Tech Transactions Team

Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Orrick announced today that Tech Transactions advisor Sarah Schaedler has joined the firm as a partner in San Francisco. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis. Sarah focuses on the IP and data privacy aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, cross-border investments, joint ventures and commercial transactions where software and technology are the principal assets.

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