LOS ANGELES – Building on its unparalleled capabilities in antitrust and complex commercial litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced today that Debra D. Bernstein has joined the firm as a partner. Bernstein – previously a partner at Alston & Bird – will be based in Atlanta, where she will lead the new office.
Clifford Chance adds funds regulatory partner Paul Ellison to its leading global Funds and Investment Management team Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announced that Paul Ellison will be joining the firm in May 2021 as a funds-focused financial regulatory partner, based in London. Paul joins from Macfarlanes, where he was a financial regulatory partner advising on a wide range of matters including the regulation of private equity funds, fund structuring, and the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that David R. Eastlake has joined the firm as a partner in the Financial Restructuring Practice, based in Houston. Eastlake joins the firm from Greenberg Traurig, where he was a shareholder in the Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice.
Dechert LLP announced today that Craig Brown has joined the firm’s global finance practice as a partner based in New York, focusing on commercial real estate. Mr. Brown joins the firm from Duval & Stachenfeld LLP.
Patrick Hovakimian is joining Pillsbury’s Litigation practice as a partner. Hovakimian comes to the firm after serving in various senior positions at the Department of Justice, including as Associate Deputy Attorney General, directing DOJ’s counter-transnational crime efforts.
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has welcomed new Real Estate Partner Wayne Ma to the firm’s Hong Kong office. Wayne’s arrival marks the 10th lateral hire to join the practice in the past year, as BCLP continues to strengthen its market-leading position in the international commercial real estate arena. Joining from DLA Piper, Wayne has more than 14 years’ experience in Asia on a wide variety of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of various types of real property, joint ventures, limited recourse and secured financings, private equity and institutional investments, and funds formation.
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Skadden is pleased to announce that Cody Carper has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in its Houston office. Mr. Carper’s practice focuses on complex energy and infrastructure transactions, including representing private equity sponsors and management teams in acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets, energy financings and equity joint venture transactions. He regularly advises both investors and operators in drilling partnerships and other joint development arrangements. Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Carper was a partner in the Houston office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, primarily advising on transactions in the energy sector.
Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce the addition of veteran insurance litigator Wendy B. Hall to the Global Insurance practice. Hall brings nearly two decades of insurance litigation in the oil and gas sector having represented domestic insurance companies, Lloyd’s Underwriting Syndicates, London Companies, offshore drilling and subsea construction companies, and energy and oil service companies. She has been a trusted resource for advising insurers through a myriad complex coverage and claims handling issues. A veteran of both domestic and international insurance disputes, Hall has handled coverage litigation in first and third-party cases, including political risk, pollution, operators extra expense, control of well, general liability, and professional indemnity policies, as well as litigating subrogation matters. Hall was a founding shareholder of Hall Maines Lugrin, PC.
King & Spalding has recruited leading healthcare lawyer Richard J. Zall as a partner based in the New York office. Zall will serve as chair of King & Spalding’s healthcare transactional and regulatory practice. He was most recently a partner at Proskauer and chair of its healthcare industry practice.
