Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Erica R. Graves has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation group as an associate in the Los Angeles office. Her addition further expands the firm’s West Coast presence, which has strategically grown this year with the recent additions of a prominent Privacy, Security & Data Protection team in Orange County as well as partners Arash Beral and Anthony R. Callobre and associates Katie Pandolfini, Allen Ho, and Saam Takaloo in Los Angeles. Erica joins Blank Rome from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP.
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Squire Patton Boggs continues to expand its Financial Services Practice Group with the appointment of Steven Ward as partner in the firm’s London office. Mr. Ward, who joins from Paul Hastings, will spearhead the development of a new Funds Practice.
Crowell & Moring has expanded its Litigation Group in New York with the addition of partner Brian D. Hail, a seasoned commercial and financial services litigator with more than two decades of experience representing clients in complex disputes involving financial products, corporate transactions, and debt instruments.
Barnes & Thornburg has announced the opening of a Boston office, its 20th in the U.S., with six partners. The new office is anchored by the addition of highly experienced intellectual property partners Ronald E. Cahill, Heather B. Repicky, Rory P. Pheiffer and Derek Roller who join current partners Robyn S. Maguire and Matthew Leno. Boston is a critical market for the life sciences sector; the Boston office will reflect the firm’s established and growing intellectual property and life sciences practice as well as its corporate M&A, investment fund formation, commercial litigation and white collar practice groups. Cahill, Repicky, Pheiffer and Roller, who join the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, previously practiced at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP.
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McGuireWoods continues the strategic expansion of its highly ranked private equity industry team with the arrival of partner Jeffrey Shah, who brings more than a decade of experience in domestic and cross-border deals to the firm’s New York office. Shah most recently practiced with Vinson & Elkins LLP in New York prior to joining the firm.
Global law firm Goodwin announced today that Steven Clemens joined the firm’s Tax practice, resident in the New York office. Clemens joins the firm from Dechert LLP in New York.
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Mayer Brown has continued the expansion of its regulatory, investigations and enforcement capabilities with the arrival of federal prosecutor Sean McDonnell, who rejoins the firm as a partner in the global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Washington DC. Previously, Mr. McDonnell was an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Anna Wildeman, a former high-ranking official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has joined Troutman Pepper in the firm’s nationally recognized Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group in Washington, D.C. Regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Clean Water Act, Wildeman most recently served as principal deputy and acting assistant administrator in the Office of Water at EPA. At Troutman Pepper, she rejoins forces with Dave Ross after working together to lead the Office of Water at EPA for nearly three years.
