Julia Petty has joined Vinson & Elkins as counsel in the firm’s Executive Compensation and Benefits practice in New York. Petty, who comes to V&E from Kirkland & Ellis, focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters in connection with domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings and restructuring transactions.
International law firm DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce that leading dispute resolution lawyer Mercedes Romero has joined the firm in Madrid. She joins from Pérez-Llorca, where she was also a partner in Madrid and provisional Head of its Dispute Resolution team in Barcelona.
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Global law firm Goodwin announced today the addition of Karen Ubell as partner in the firm’s Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology practice in the San Francisco office. Ubell represents investors and issuers in digital asset offerings, private financings and securities offerings, and advises startups and existing companies in the implementation and development of blockchain technologies and tokenization models. Ubell also advises digital currency and blockchain clients on regulatory compliance as well as direct interactions with regulators, offering a unique perspective from her experience in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Prior to joining the firm, Ubell practiced with Cooley LLP in San Francisco.
Jay Coogan—a well-known attorney who advises clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, securities offerings, capital financings, and corporate governance matters—has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the Business and Transactions Department, Firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today. Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, he was a partner in DLA Piper’s Philadelphia office.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Michael J. Cochran has joined the firm as a partner in Atlanta. Mr. Cochran will be a member of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Corporate Department and Co-Chair the firm’s expanding Private Equity team. He comes to the firm from Dentons, where he previously had served as Chair of the U.S. Corporate Practice.
In keeping with its stated goal to strategically expand its award-winning Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, leading global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Robert J. Hollingshead as a Shareholder and Chair of its Japan IP Practice. Hollingshead’s joining underscores Greenberg Traurig’s commitment to the growth of its Tokyo office. Hollingshead will help grow the firm’s IP presence in Japan and assist clients from the firm’s Tokyo office as well as spending time in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Hollingshead joins from the Tokyo office of Morrison & Foerster, LLP, where he was a partner and leader of its Japan patent practice since 2008.
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Katharine Beattie, an experienced labor and employment litigator and counselor, has joined the firm’s Boston office as a partner in its Labor & Employment Practice Group. Beattie comes to Foley from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., where she was a member of the Employment, Labor & Benefits Practice Group.
