Clark Hill Adds Corporate Lawyer Randolf Katz in Los Angeles Office

Clark Hill PLC has announced the addition of Randolf Katz as a Member in its Corporate Law practice, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Katz is a business attorney, who acts as outside general counsel and special securities counsel to U.S. and international public and private companies in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters, as well as in certain regulatory enforcement proceedings. Mr. Katz previously practiced with Baker & Hostetler LLP in Costa Mesa.

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King & Spalding Adds Two Additional Corporate Partners in Houston

King & Spalding today announced that corporate lawyers Heath Trisdale and Michael Hamilton have joined the firm as partners in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in the Houston office. Both partners were previously at Baker McKenzie and will work closely with Jonathan Newton, who joined King & Spalding in August from the same firm.

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Dentons welcomes Mark Califano to Commercial Litigation practice

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces the growth of its Commercial Litigation practice with the addition of Mark Califano as partner. Califano focuses on litigation, regulatory law, compliance, privacy and information security, and is resident in the Washington, DC, office. Previously, Califano served for seven years as head of litigation at American Express, where he oversaw the defense of a range of consumer, class action and commercial claims, performed complex investigations around the globe and defended the company’s business model, including playing a central role in card fee antitrust litigation and internal investigations.

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Linn Mayhew Joins McGuireWoods’ Leading Global Finance Practice in London

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.

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Latham Adds Capital Markets Partner in London

Latham & Watkins1 is pleased to announce that Manoj Tulsiani has joined the London office as a partner in the Capital Markets Practice. Tulsiani has extensive experience advising issuers and underwriters on a variety of complex domestic and international debt capital markets transactions. Tulsiani joins the firm from Linklaters.

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King & Spalding Expands Asia Energy Practice With Two New Partners

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.

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Hogan Lovells Adds Leading Capital Markets Partner in New York

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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