Further strengthening its market-leading financial restructuring practice and continuing its strategic expansion in Texas, Paul Hastings LLP has added restructuring lawyer Charles Persons as a partner in Dallas. The firm has more than tripled its Texas headcount in the last year and expects to have more than 100 lawyers in the Lone Star State by Q1 2025, up from 25. He joins from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Faegre Drinker announced today that Eli Burriss has joined Faegre Drinker’s litigation group as partner in the Dallas office. Burriss joins from Katten where he was a partner and head of commercial litigation.
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Cooley has strengthened its global communications regulatory practice based in Washington, DC, with the addition of Tony Lin, Ronald W. Del Sesto and Tamar E. Finn. The three new partners enhance the firm’s long-standing position as a leading adviser to many of the world’s top telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) companies. Del Sesto and Finn join Cooley from Morgan Lewis. Lin arrives at the firm from DLA Piper.
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Baker McKenzie is further expanding its global M&A practice with the addition of Dirk Horcher, who joins as a partner on October 1, 2024 and will be based in the Firm’s Munich office. Dirk joins from Linklaters, where he started in 2006 and has been a partner since 2017.
Tags: Baker McKenzie | MünchenFaegre Drinker announced today that Craig Heeren, a former deputy chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section for the Eastern District of New York, has joined Faegre Drinker’s litigation group as a partner in the New York office.
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Global law firm Reed Smith announced today that Tyler Thompson has joined as a partner in its recently announced Emerging Technologies practice. Thompson advises clients on data privacy and protection, technology contracts, websites and mobile apps, digital accessibility, artificial intelligence, and data issues in the franchise space. Thompson arrives at Reed Smith from Greenberg Traurig LLP.
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Gibson Dunn is pleased to announce that Ryan Kim has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Ryan will be heading Gibson Dunn’s private credit efforts. Dunn arrives at the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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King & Spalding announced today that executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer John Kleinjan has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate practice group. Kleinjan is based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Kleinjan joins King & Spalding from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner.
Faegre Drinker announced today that three powerhouse female former federal prosecutors, partners Carolyn McNiven and Jessica Natali and associate Brittany Fisher, joined the firm’s litigation group in San Francisco and Philadelphia. With a national white collar defense practice spanning both the East and West Coasts, the trio moved as a team from Greenberg Traurig where they defended a variety of private and public companies and individuals primarily in the health care, life sciences, and financial services sectors in government enforcement matters.
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