Loeb & Loeb Adds Four Lawyers in Hong Kong

Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that it has added a team of four trusts and estates lawyers to its Hong Kong office. The move expands the firm’s preeminent reputation in private client work into Asia for the first time. Partners Erik Wallace and Laurence Ho will lead the newly formed Hong Kong Trusts and Estates team, which will include associates Sarah Lai and Letao Tao. The team joins Loeb & Loeb from Stephenson Harwood.

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Latham To Add Talented Infrastructure Partner in London

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that John Guccione will join the London office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Guccione joins the firm from OMERS Infrastructure, where he was Managing Director, Legal. He has substantial experience across a range of complex corporate and financing matters, with a particular focus on transactions involving regulated utilities, energy, and transportation assets.

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Carlton Fields Welcomes Esteemed Trial Lawyer and Retired U.S. Air Force Two-Star General Robert “Bobby” L. Shannon, Jr.

Carlton Fields is pleased to welcome nationally recognized trial lawyer Robert “Bobby” L. Shannon, Jr. as a shareholder in its Atlanta office. Mr. Shannon has tried more than 72 cases to verdict and has served as lead or co-lead counsel in hundreds of complex cases, including multidistrict litigation and class actions, in federal and state courts. Shannon joins the firm from the Atlanta office of Baker Donelson.


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Freshfields Adds top DOJ Antitrust Trial Lead Julie Elmer in Washington, DC

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (“Freshfields”) announced today that Julie Elmer, one of the US Department of Justice’s leading antitrust trial lawyers, has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC. Ms. Elmer joins Freshfields from the DOJ Antitrust Division’s Technology and Financial Services section, where she led two of the DOJ’s last three merger trials, including its last trial victory in US v. Energy Solutions, Inc., et al.

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