K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, welcomes Marius Toime and Lucas Nicolet-Serra to the firm’s corporate practice. Toime joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and will be a partner. Nicolet-Serra joins from Simmons & Simmons and will be a counsel.
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Glynna Christian has joined Holland & Knight as a partner and head of global technology transactions. Ms. Christian is a business lawyer who partners with clients to bring creativity and solutions-oriented pragmatism to transactions involving the use of emerging and transformative technology and data. Previously, she practiced at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she was co-chair of the Global Technology Transactions practice. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has established an office in Nashville, Tenn., with the hiring of more than 25 lawyers across a variety of practices, including health care, litigation, corporate, intellectual property, finance, and construction, among others. The Nashville office – K&L Gates’ 24th in the United States and 45th worldwide – provides the firm and its clients access to one of the nation’s fastest-growing markets, including in such areas as health care, technology, and investment, and is expected to continue to expand during the coming months.
Among the lawyers joining K&L Gates in the launch of its Nashville office are 18 partners from such law firms as Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP; Butler Snow LLP; Dickinson Wright PLLC; and Bass, Berry & Sims PLC.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Brandon L. Van Grack as a partner in its National Security, Global Risk and Crisis Management, and Investigations + White Collar Defense Groups in Washington, D.C. Mr. Van Grack joins the firm after more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit and previously served as a lead prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Canada-Dentons has significantly strengthened its insurance capabilities by adding a team of nine lawyers and legal professionals in Canada. The team joins from Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP and includes five partners, three associates and one paraprofessional with expertise spanning corporate, regulatory and litigation. The team, led by partner Laurie LaPalme and based across Dentons’ Toronto and Calgary offices, will provide corporate and regulatory advice to insurance sector clients, and includes partners Derek Levinsky and Marisa Coggin, associates Taschina Ashmeade and Katie-May O’Donnell, as well as law clerk April Campbell (all based in Toronto).
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Global law firm Ashurst is pleased to announce that Andrew Roche has joined the firm as a partner in the international projects group, based in Singapore. Joining from Latham & Watkins, where he has been a partner since 2014, Andrew is one of Asia’s leading project finance lawyers with more than 15 years of experience advising on the development, project financing and acquisition of energy, resources and infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Vincent I. Parrett to the Silicon Valley office. Mr. Parrett will serve as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and will be a member of the Complex Commercial Litigation Team. He joins from Bergeson, LLP.
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William M. McSwain has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Trial Practice Group in its Philadelphia office. McSwain served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from April 2018 until he stepped down on January 22, 2021.
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Faegre Drinker announced today that Lenny Asaro and Alison Baldwin have joined the firm as partners in Chicago. Asaro, a member of the construction and real estate litigation practice, comes to the firm from Dinsmore. Baldwin joins the firm’s intellectual property practice from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, where she held senior leadership positions.
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