McGuireWoods continues to expand its formidable global banking and finance capabilities with the arrival of partner Linn Mayhew, who joins the firm’s top-ranked debt finance practice in London. Mayhew joins McGuireWoods from DLA Piper, where she was a senior finance lawyer. She previously was legal counsel at NatWest, supporting the bank’s leveraged finance business, and was an associate for six years at Simpson Thacher.
International law firm Bird & Bird today expands its Tech & Comms group with the appointment of partner Jan Ussing Andersen in Copenhagen. Jan has more than 15 years’ experience and joins from the TMT group of Kromann Reumert, one of the largest TMT practice groups in the Nordics.
King & Spalding has added prominent energy lawyers Anthony Patten and Lachlan Clancy as partners in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) Practice Group in Singapore. Clancy, who will join the office later in the month, is scheduled to relocate to the firm’s Tokyo branch in due course. Patten and Clancy were most recently at Shearman & Sterling, where Patten was a partner and Co-Head of the firm’s Oil and Gas Group.
O’Melveny announced today that leading Washington, DC litigator Jeffrey Gordon has joined the firm as a partner in the General Litigation Practice. Gordon was previously a senior attorney in the litigation practice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
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Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Richard Aftanas has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate practice in New York and as a member of the Firm’s global Capital Markets leadership team with a focus on expanding the New York and US capital markets practice. Aftanas joins from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he was a partner in the Capital Markets group for six years.
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Offit Kurman is pleased to announce that David Johnson has joined the firm’s offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He will serve as a principal-level attorney with the firm’s Intellectual Property group. Mr. Johnson comes to the firm from Protorae Law PLLC in Tysons.
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Seyfarth announced today that Penny Stevens will join the firm as a partner in Melbourne. Stevens is a leading health and safety lawyer with more than 25 years of experience advising on all aspects of work health and safety, and criminal law. Stevens joins the firm from Sparke Helmore in Melbourne.
Leech Tishman is pleased to announce that it has joined forces with Alan S. Fellheimer and John J. Jacko, III of Fellheimer & Eichen LLP to open Leech Tishman’s new Philadelphia, PA office. The new office will be located at 1417 Locust Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
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