Dinsmore and Shohl’s growth, both nationally and locally, continues with the addition of its newest partner, Robert M. (Rob) Duncan, Jr., who joins the firm’s commercial litigation group after serving as United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The firm also named Grahmn Morgan as the new Lexington office managing partner.
Global law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces the appointment of Michael Saarinen as a Funds partner in New York City. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Michael was a partner with Alston & Bird.
Bolstering its Labor & Employment Department in the Northeast region, Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome Lori Armstrong Halber and Kirsten B. White as partners to the firm. Armstrong Halber and White were previously partners at Reed Smith LLP and Schwartz Hannum PC, respectively.
Mayer Brown announced today that it has recruited leading structured and real estate finance lawyer Charles Malpass as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice in London. Charles joins Mayer Brown from Dechert, where he was head of the European structured finance and real estate finance practices. His arrival continues Mayer Brown’s strategic investment in its finance capabilities for funds and financial institutions, both in London and in other financial centers around the world.
Dentons Hong Kong is pleased to announce that Norman Hui and Rachel Han have joined the firm as partners. Hui and Han, formerly with Eversheds Sutherland, will continue to practice in the areas of equity capital markets, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. They join Dentons Hong Kong with of counsel Joyce Bao.
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Dechert LLP announced today that Andrew Wilkins, Ph.D., has joined the firm as a partner and Sean Coughlin has joined the firm as counsel. Both are based in Boston and join Dechert’s leading Intellectual Property group. This follows the addition of IP partners Howard Levine and Jennifer Swan in January, and further expands Dechert’s global life sciences capabilities. Wilkins and Coughlin both come to the firm from Lathrop GPM in Boston.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Alexandra (Alex) Dapolito Dunn, the former Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, has joined the firm’s Environmental, Safety & Incident Response (ESIR) Section of the Litigation Department in the Washington, D.C. office.
Faegre Drinker announced today that Dylan Carson has joined the firm’s Denver and Washington, D.C. offices as partner in the antitrust practice of the firm’s litigation group. Carson was previously a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications section of the Antitrust Division, and a leader of three of DOJ’s most recent merger trials in federal court.
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