Veteran intellectual property litigation attorney Steve Levitan has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a Partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Levitan joins Womble Bond Dickinson from Hogan Lovells, where he practiced with Womble Bond Dickinson Partners Chris Mammen and Jeff Whittle.
Akin Gump today announced that finance partner Clare Cottle is to join the firm’s London office. Ms. Cottle advises on the finance aspects of cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, special situations funding and complex direct loans. She represents credit funds, institutional investors, private equity funds and portfolio companies in a wide range of financings, including debt restructurings, direct loans, leveraged buyouts, securitisations and bank/bond structures. Ms. Cottle will join Akin Gump from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where she is a partner.
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Bracewell LLP announced today that Frank Lee and Theodore F. Duver have joined the New York office as partners in the firm’s corporate and securities team. Lee and Duver come to the firm from Loeb & Loeb LLP, where Lee was co-chair of the energy practice.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli is pleased to announce the addition of new Shareholder Joshua D. Dill, who has joined the firm’s national Real Estate Finance Practice Group and the New York City office. Dill comes to the firm from the New York office of Paul Hastings LLP.
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Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that private equity fund formation lawyer Bryan Hunkele has joined the firm’s asset management practice as a partner in New York. Hunkele joins from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its growing Houston office with the addition of Laura Katherine Mann as a partner. Mann will join the Firm’s Global Capital Markets Practice and will work closely with the Firm’s Energy Industry Group. She joins White & Case from Baker Botts.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that preeminent litigator Kenneth Herzinger has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice. He joins from Orrick. His arrival follows the recent additions of Investigations and White Collar Defense partners Jonathan Pickworth and Joanna Dimmock and Complex Litigation partner Alex Leitch in London, and adds further momentum to the growth of the San Francisco office.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Brian Krause and David Tarr are joining the firm as partners in the New York office. Mr. Krause will be a partner in the Tax Department; Mr. Tarr will be a partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice Group. Krause joins the firm from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Tarr was previously with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
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