Today, Greenberg Traurig continues one if its core global and European strategies by announcing the imminent addition of David van Dijk and his team in Amsterdam and London. Van Dijk leads a Dutch Tier 1 Real Estate team and has been the head of the International Real Estate Practice and member of the Supervisory Board of the NautaDutilh firm based in Amsterdam, where he has led a robust practice for many years, in both transactional real estate and disputes involving the asset class.
Kennedys has appointed partner Tobin Ashby to its growing corporate insurance, financial regulation and products practice as part of a strategic drive to expand its non-contentious services to the insurance sector. Tobin, who joins from Pinsent Masons and will be based in London, has over 18 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including a decade working in-house for a global insurance group.
Project finance/energy M&A attorneys Timothy Moran and Philip Corsello have joined Holland & Knight as partners in its Washington and New York offices, respectively. Mr. Moran will chair the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure M&A/Finance Team and co-chair its Energy & Natural Resources Industry Sector Group. Most recently, he was a partner at DLA Piper, where he was U.S. co-chair, Projects and Infrastructure; U.S. chair, Renewable Energy; and U.S. chair, Energy M&A. Mr. Moran and Mr. Corsello practiced together at DLA Piper and prior to that at Sidley Austin and Dewey & LeBoeuf. Most recently, Mr. Corsello was with Schiff Hardin.
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of Laura Funk to its Dallas office as a partner in its Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. Ms. Funk brings to Lewis Brisbois more than a decade of experience in litigation and compliance. Ms. Funk joins Lewis Brisbois from Conifer Health Solutions, a healthcare business solutions organization and subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare.
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Global law firm Dentons has announced the recruitment of Stefano Belleggia as a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. He joins from Italian law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners along with counsel Antonio Umberto Valdemarca and Giulia Marcucci. They will be based in the Milan office.
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Rimon is proud to welcome Sarah (Xiaohua) Zhao as an International Transactions and Data Privacy Partner in its D.C. office. Ms. Zhao is the firm’s 30th new partner this year. She joins from Baker Hostetler, where she was a Partner. She had also previously served as the Managing Partner of the Beijing office of Holland & Knight.
Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is growing its employment law, litigation, and advice and counseling practices in South Florida by welcoming Patrick Martin as shareholder. Patrick will be based out of Ogletree Deakins’ Miami office, which offers a full range of labor and employment law services, including traditional labor relations, arbitration, and cross-border and international employment law matters. Patrick joins Ogletree Deakins from Greenberg Traurig where he was a shareholder, and previously practiced labor and employment law for 17 years at two Am Law 100 law firms. He also served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida based in Tallahassee.
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Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) today announced that established first-chair litigator Lori Van Auken has joined the firm as a partner. She will be resident in the firm’s New York office. Formerly a partner with Winston & Strawn, she has more than 30 years’ experience with matters involving financial crisis securities litigation, complex insurance fraud litigation, SEC regulatory proceedings, corporate M&A/governance counseling, nationwide antitrust class actions, intellectual property litigation, employment and whistleblower claims, and workout and debtor/creditor litigation.
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