Akin is pleased to announce that Scott Colton has joined the firm’s special situations & private credit practice as a partner in New York. He joins from Paul Hastings, closely following the firm’s recent addition of preeminent private credit partner Bill Brady, with whom Scott has worked for many years.
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Continuing the growth of its Chicago office and strengthening its capabilities in patent and product liability litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP today announced that Paul Collier has joined the firm as a partner, resident in Chicago. Collier joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner.
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Fox Rothschild is pleased to welcome Sarah D. Macklin to our Seattle office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Prior to joining Fox, Macklin was partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Christine Jochim as a partner in its Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice. An associate with K&L Gates from 2011-2015, Jochim rejoins the firm in its Seattle office from Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., where she served as senior legal counsel.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that three attorneys have joined the firm’s Chicago office in its Corporate Litigation group: partners Daniel R. Saeedi and Rachel L. Schaller, as well as associate Gabrielle Ganze. Daniel will serve as team co-lead, Biometric Privacy. As litigators, Daniel, Rachel, and Gabrielle represent clients in disputes related to class action litigation, privacy and biometrics, trade secrets litigation, technology and information security, and employment law. They join Blank Rome from Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.
Tags: Blank Rome LLP | ChicagoGlobal law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Mattias Luukkonen and Michael Gorback as partners in its Corporate practice. Luukkonen joins the firm’s Orange County office from Reed Smith LLP and Gorback arrives to the firm’s Palo Alto office from Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco.
King & Spalding announced today that tax lawyer Craig Phillips has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate practice group. Phillips is based in the firm’s New York office. Phillips joins the firm from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where in addition to advising on energy and infrastructure transactions he provided tax advice to corporate clients and private funds across industries.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, announced today that Veronica Relea has joined the Energy, Projects & Transactions Section of the Global Projects Department as a partner in the New York office. Relea joins from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
Fox Rothschild is pleased to welcome Andrew M. J. Bernstein to our New York office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Prior to joining Fox, Bernstein was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale.
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