Enrique Conde has joined Holland & Knight in Miami as a partner in the Corporate, M&A and Securities and Latin America Practice groups. He was previously a partner in the legal department of SoftBank Group International and deputy general counsel of the SoftBank Latam Fund, a $5 billion fund devoted to technology investments in the region.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has further expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice with the addition of Sibusiso Zungu as a partner in Johannesburg. Sibusiso joins White & Case from Allen & Overy.
BakerHostetler announced today that Raam S. Jani has joined the firm as a partner in its Chicago office. Jani will serve as a member of the firm’s Business Practice Group and Private Equity Practice team. Jani joins the firm from Vedder Price.
Clifford Chance grows Munich office with high-calibre private equity team International law firm Clifford Chance has boosted its German private equity team with the high-calibre additions of partners Volkmar Bruckner and Mark Aschenbrenner as well as senior associate Samuel Frommelt. All of the new additions will be working from Clifford Chance’s Munich office, while at the same time further strengthening the German and international transaction team with their specialist expertise and market experience. The team will join Clifford Chance from Kirkland & Ellis in Munich, boosting the firm’s partner base in Germany with a particular focus on private equity and financial investors.
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Alston & Bird has added a leveraged finance practice to its London office with the arrival of partner Paul Simcock. Bringing more than two decades of experience, Simcock advises sponsors, lenders, and borrowers in complex leveraged financings, including acquisitions, public takeovers, and other national and cross-border corporate debt mandates in both Europe and the U.S. Simcock arrives at the firm from Vinson & Elkins LLP in London.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Shad Sumrow has joined the Dallas office as a partner in the Finance Section of the Corporate Department. Sumrow joins Baker Botts from Thompson & Knight, where he was the firmwide Finance Practice Leader. He represents clients in lending and structured finance transactions, with an emphasis on oil and gas and asset-based transactions.
Allen & Overy today announced that Annette Kurdian and Robert Burt have been appointed as partners in A&O’s leveraged finance practice, based in London. Both Annette and Robert join from Linklaters where they were senior banking and finance partners.
Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Principal Peter J. Woo and Of Counsel Sean Paisan have joined the firm’s Orange County office. Peter J. Woo joins the firm from Goldberg Segalla, Sean Paisan joins the firm from Ogletree Deakins.
