Freshfields Expands US Antitrust Practice With Addition of Partner Meghan Rissmiller in Washington, D.C.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP (“Freshfields”) announced today that Meghan Rissmiller has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. as a partner in its leading US antitrust practice. Ms. Rissmiller specializes in advocating before the US antitrust agencies and guiding clients on the clearance of M&A transactions. Rissmiller makes the move to Freshfields from Hogan Lovells, where she had spent the last eleven years with their antitrust practice group.

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Kilpatrick Townsend Lands National Life Sciences Patent Litigation Team in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that it is bringing aboard a national life sciences patent litigation team to further enhance their internationally recognized Intellectual Property Department. April Abele Isaacson, M.S. is joining as a partner in San Francisco, Abby Markeson as counsel in Seattle, and in New York, Brian David O’Reilly and Michael Enzo Furrow, Ph.D. are joining as partners and Erica W. Kuo, M.S. as counsel. All will be members of the Patent Litigation Team, focusing on life sciences litigation and related strategic counseling. The team has broad experience across the biopharma patent service areas and close interconnections running back many years. April, Brian, Erica, and Michael most recently worked together at DLA Piper. Abby worked with Michael and Brian for many years at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto in New York before leaving there in a move to Seattle in 2018.

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Reed Smith Adds Two More to Expanding Energy Industry Group

Reed Smith announced today that Megan S. Haines, previously the co-chair of McGuireWoods’ energy disputes team, has joined Reed Smith’s Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group as a partner in the firm’s Pittsburgh office.
 In moving to Reed Smith, Haines rejoins her colleague Ryan T. Purpura, a renowned dealmaker in the oil and gas space, who also joined the firm as a partner in Pittsburgh in September, having previously chaired McGuireWoods’ global energy group. In addition to Haines and Purpura, their colleague, Ryan Haddad, today also joins the firm as an associate in the Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group focused on transactions.
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Holland & Knight Expands Financial Services Litigation Practice With 10-Lawyer Team

Holland & Knight announced today that a group of 10 attorneys who focus on financial services litigation have joined the firm. The team includes Partners Abraham Colman and Travis Sabalewski, of counsel Raymond Kim, associates Zachary Frampton, Jonathan Marmo, Christopher Murphy, Justin Sizemore, Brandon White and Ariel Wossene, and staff attorney John Joseph. All previously practiced at Reed Smith.

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Eversheds Sutherland Tax Practice Continues Growth with Arrival of Partner Nikki Dobay

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to welcome Nikki E. Dobay to the firm’s Tax Practice Group as a State and Local Tax (SALT) partner. Ms. Dobay joins the firm’s Sacramento office from the Council On State Taxation (COST), where she had been senior tax counsel. Ms. Dobay is the second partner in a month to join our SALT group following the arrival of Breen Schiller, the firm’s first SALT partner in Chicago.

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