Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Peter E. Strniste, Jr. and Todd R. Regan as Partners in the firm’s Construction practice group. These two new partners were previously members of Robinson & Cole and practice in multiple states throughout the northeast, including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Global law firm Goodwin announced today the extension of its award-winning litigation platform into the UK with the addition of partner Oliver Glynn-Jones. Glynn-Jones comes to the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and will join Goodwin’s London office on May 1, 2020.
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Andrew Gendron to its Baltimore office as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice. Mr. Gendron joins Lewis Brisbois from Venable LLP, and brings to the firm more than 30 years of experience handling complex commercial litigation matters throughout the country at both the trial and appellate levels.
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Gowling WLG has welcomed a new partner, Sarah Riding, to its growing Commercial team in Birmingham. Prior to joining the firm, she was head of Irwin Mitchell’s Birmingham Commercial team, where she played a key role in developing the national commercial practice.
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins has recruited partner Nick Watson to its international corporate team in Oman. Nick now joins the Trowers team after a period as a legal consultant to Goldman Sachs.
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As it executes on its expansion plans, Pillsbury has brought on two veteran insolvency and restructuring lawyers, Joshua Morse, who will join as a partner, and Jonathan Doolittle, who will join as senior counsel. Morse comes to Pillsbury from DLA Piper, while Doolittle is from Reed Smith. They will be resident in San Francisco.
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces the addition of Brian E. Greer as a partner in its Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. Greer has a broad-ranging practice, with substantial experience representing hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, direct lenders, insurers, securitization servicers, debt issuers, directors, officers and equity sponsors in complex cross-border and domestic turnarounds, workouts, restructurings, wind-downs, bankruptcies, liquidations, assignments for the benefit of creditors, foreclosures and distressed M&A transactions. Greer comes to the firm from the New York office of Dechert, LLP.
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Dechert LLP announced today that partners Kimberly Branscome and Jay Bhimani, and counsel Benjamin Sadun have joined the firm’s leading product liability and mass torts practice, based in Los Angeles. Ms. Branscome will also serve as Managing Partner of the firm’s Los Angeles Office. The trio join the firm from the Los Angeles branch of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Leonora M. Shalet has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its global Private Funds Group. Ms. Shalet is an accomplished funds lawyer who counsels investment funds in connection with their structuring, formation, and ongoing operational needs, as well as on general securities law matters, and regulatory and compliance issues. She is the tenth lawyer to join the New York office as partner since the start of 2019, and the second addition to the Corporate Department since the start of the month, following the arrival of Mitchell S. Presser. She joins the firm from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
