Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Carol Anne Huff, an accomplished capital markets attorney, as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. She joins Chicago partner Christina Roupas as co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets & Securities practice. She was previously a Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Shane Nichols has joined the Firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice as partner. Previously at Alston & Bird, He joins a team of business savvy, technically skilled IP lawyers led by IP partner Jeffrey Toney in our recently opened Atlanta office.
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Global law firm Goodwin announced today that a team of five partners will join the firm’s top-ranked Private Equity practice in London. Erik Dahl, Christian Iwasko, Sava Savov, Michelle Tong, and John Van De North most recently practiced together at Sidley Austin, where Dahl served as co-leader of the firm’s private equity practice area and Iwasko was co-head of the European corporate and private equity group. Dahl and Iwasko will start at Goodwin on October 1st, whilst Savov, Tong, and Van De North will join following the completion of their notice periods.
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Jai Khanna has joined the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team as a partner. Khanna brings to the firm a wealth of project finance experience relating to conventional and renewable energy generation facilities, real estate and related infrastructure. He will be based in the firm’s Chicago office. Khanna comes to Husch Blackwell from the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
King & Spalding today announced that Luke Edwards joins as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group, and as part of the recently-launched Global Human Capital and Compliance practice. Edwards, who is based in Sydney, Australia, will also divide his time between the firm’s Singapore and Tokyo office. Edwards joins the firm from Seyfarth Shaw, LLP.
Vassilis Akritidis, a leading international trade lawyer, is joining Crowell & Moring in Brussels, expanding the firm’s capability to provide global clients with strategic European trade advice. Akritidis and his team bring a broad trade practice, including experience in World Trade Organization law and proceedings, customs, and unfair trade litigation. Akritidis joins as a partner from DWF, where he led the International Trade and WTO practice and served as managing partner of that firm’s Brussels office.
Steven Sandretto has joined Holland & Knight in New York as a partner in the firm’s Northeast Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group. Mr. Sandretto has almost 20 years of experience in capital markets, securities and finance work, with a particular emphasis on Brazil, Mexico and the rest of Latin America. He previously practiced at Paul Hastings in the firm’s São Paulo and New York offices.
James Rapore, well-known for his extraordinary victories in complex white-collar, government investigations, and high-stakes commercial litigation matters, has joined Mintz as a Member in the firm’s Los Angeles office. The addition of Mr. Rapore expands Mintz’s national litigation practice. Prior to joining Mintz, Mr. Rapore was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, is growing its national Litigation Practice Group with partners Sarah Kroll-Rosenbaum and Sayaka Karitani in Los Angeles. They both join the firm from Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP.
