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.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced today the addition of environmental litigator Tom Boer to the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources practice in San Francisco. Boer, who joins the firm from Hunton Andrews Kurth, spent nearly a decade prosecuting environmental cases for the government before entering private practice.
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Eversheds Sutherland has welcomed lateral Partner hire, Philip James, to its data privacy and cybersecurity team. Philip, a highly experienced data protection lawyer, joins the global law firm’s commercial team from media technology law firm Sheridans, where he was head of its data practice.
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Bracewell LLP announced today that Vincent E. Morgan, one of the nation’s most prominent corporate policyholder litigators, has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the litigation group. Morgan most recently was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where he spent almost 18 years and was the former managing partner of the Houston office.
Bracewell LLP is proud to announce that Don J. Lonczak joined the Washington, DC office as a partner in the firm’s tax group. He most recently was a partner at Baker Botts L.L.P.
William B. Kirshenbaum, an experienced corporate transactions and M&A attorney, has joined Barnes & Thornburg’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department. Kirshenbaum’s arrival closely follows the firm’s corporate law expansion on the opposite coast with the additions of Jahan Sharifi and Scott Beal, two founding partners of the firm’s New York office. Mr. Kirshenbaum comes to Barnes & Thornburg from Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman LLP.
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