Akin Gump today announced the addition of a pair of top energy transactional lawyers, with Wesley P. Williams and Jessica Hammons joining the firm as partners in its Dallas and Fort Worth offices. Ms. Hammons and Mr. Williams come to Akin Gump from Thompson & Knight, where Mr. Williams served as firmwide leader of the corporate and securities practice.
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Sonia Wadhwa Nath has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s business litigation and healthcare regulatory practice groups, further strengthening its life sciences counseling capabilities and regulatory presence. Based in Washington, DC, Nath arrives from the US Food and Drug Administration, where she served most recently as senior counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel, handling enforcement efforts across the range of products regulated by the agency.
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Jeffrey W. Guise has joined the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group as a partner, resident in the San Diego office, further strengthening the firm’s IP Biotechnology and Life Sciences team in both the patent prosecution and patent litigation areas. Previously, Dr. Guise practiced for 17 years at Wilson Sonsini. |
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces the addition of Nick Williams as partner. Williams joins the Firm’s Corporate practice from his most recent role as co-head of a global high-end insurance practice. He is resident in the New York office and focuses on mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions in both the property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance industries, and cutting-edge work in emerging areas such as cyber insurance. Williams joins the firm from Clifford Chance LLP in New York.
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Litigator Robert “Bob” J. McGahan has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as a partner, primarily in Washington, D.C., but also in Los Angeles, where he practiced earlier in his career. He joins from Wells Fargo & Company, where he most recently was an associate general counsel.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that prominent M&A and entertainment and media transactional lawyer Sean Monroe has joined the firm as a partner, based in Century City. He joins from O’Melveny & Myers. Mr. Monroe’s arrival adds further momentum to the growth of the firm’s Entertainment and Media practice, and bolsters the firm’s strategic depth in M&A and corporate transactional capabilities.
Wrede Smith, a former U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawyer who advises global companies in antitrust investigations and litigation, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Washington, D.C. Smith joins McGuireWoods from Arnold & Porter.
Orrick announced today that Brian Moran, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington from 2019 to 2021, has rejoined our firm as a partner in our Seattle office. Most recently, Brian was asked to serve on the Western District of Washington’s federal judicial selection committee for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Kyle D. Hawkins has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Houston office. Hawkins recently served as the Solicitor General of Texas and will focus on appellate and constitutional law, class actions and commercial litigation.
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