Jenner & Block is pleased to announce that a team of six leading lawyers in Native American law and two government relations specialists have joined the firm, significantly expanding the Native American Law Practice’s offerings to clients, including adding government relations capabilities. The eight-person team is based in Washington, DC and includes a former US Ambassador, a White House tribal liaison for President Barack Obama, and a former Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs for the Department of the Interior. The group joins from the Washington office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.
Rimon Law is proud to welcome Corporate attorney Greg Krafka as a partner in its new Houston, Texas office. Mr. Krafka joins Rimon from Winstead PC, where he was a Shareholder.
Corporate lawyer Dr. Kamyar Abrar will join Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s Frankfurt office as a partner. Abrar comes to the firm from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP.
Mintz is pleased to announce that the firm has added a group of five leading practitioners to its nationally renowned Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. Specifically, Deirdre G. Johnson, Paul W. Kalish, Suman Chakraborty, and Ellen MacDonald Farrell join as Members, and Elaine Panagakos joins as Special Counsel. All five attorneys previously practiced at Squire Patton Boggs, and will practice out of the firm’s Washington D.C. office, with the exception of Mr. Chakraborty, who is based in New York. Ms. Johnson, Mr. Kalish and Mr. Chakraborty are all Chambers ranked practitioners.
FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest distributed law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Goldsmith as a commercial litigation and class action defense partner in Southern California. Prior to joining FisherBroyles, Scott was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP where he led the Telephone Consumer Protection Act practice group.
McCarter & English is pleased to have Randy Elliott rejoin the firm as a partner in the Washington, DC, office in the Environment & Energy Practice Group. Randy was most recently senior director, regulatory counsel for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and prior to that regulatory counsel for the American Public Power Association (APPA). He represented the associations in matters concerning such issues as capacity markets, electric storage, distributed energy resources, and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
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Joseph A. Matteo, an accomplished commercial litigator, has joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Matteo will be based in the firm’s newly opened New York office, where he joins six new lateral partners and several other attorneys from some of the city’s most elite law firms. Matteo joins the firm from Kaplan Rice LLP.
The global law firm Jones Day today announced that Noel J. Francisco will rejoin the Firm’s Washington Office after serving three years as the 48th Solicitor General of the United States. “The partners, lawyers and professional staff of Jones Day have always held Noel in the highest regard both professionally and personally,” Jones Day’s Managing Partner Stephen J. Brogan said. “We are confident that in the years ahead Noel will be of critical help to our clients as a strong and creative advocate and as a trusted and thoughtful advisor. He will also be a great leader in our Firm and more broadly in the profession.”
Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that Manas Chandrashekar has joined the Firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in the Debt Finance Practice Group. Mr. Chandrashekar has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors on complex international leveraged and other types of structured financings across Asia. Mr. Chandrashekar joins Kirkland from Latham & Watkins, where he was a partner in the Hong Kong office.
