Experienced Acquisition Finance Partner to Join Latham & Watkins in Hong Kong

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Andrew Bishop will join the firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in the Private Equity Finance Practice. He advises private equity funds, venture funds, credit funds, and other institutional and strategic investors on a wide range of complex financings, including leveraged acquisition finance, take-private and real estate finance, debt buybacks, bank/bond transactions, bridge finance, margin loans and back-leverage financings, as well as subscription and capital call financings. Bishop joins Latham & Watkins from White & Case LLP.

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Cooley Hires Cyber/Data/Privacy Leader and Team in Europe

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Prominent cyber/data/privacy lawyer Patrick Van Eecke has joined Cooley as a partner in its Brussels office. Van Eecke arrives from DLA Piper, where he was co-chair of the firm’s global data privacy and cybersecurity practice. Joining him is a multinational team of data protection professionals from France, Spain and Latvia.

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Former 21st Century Oncology Chief Legal Officer and Executive Vice President Joins King & Spalding’s Chicago Office

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

King & Spalding today announced that Amy Garrigues has joined as a partner in the firm’s Healthcare team in the Chicago office. In addition to holding senior law firm positions as a health law practitioner, Garrigues most recently has been chief legal officer and executive vice president of 21st Century Oncology, an international cancer care provider.

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Luther Strengthens its Team in Shanghai

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Raymond Kok joined Luther’s Shanghai team as a Partner on 1 September 2020. Mr Kok is a German lawyer and has already worked for twelve years in Shanghai, where he most recently set up and managed the China business German law firm Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft MbH.

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Senate Finance Committee Chief International Trade Counsel Nasim Fussell Joins Holland & Knight

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Holland & Knight announced today that Nasim Fussell has joined the firm as a partner in its International Trade Group, residing in the Washington, D.C., office. Most recently, Ms. Fussell was chief international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, advising Chairman Chuck Grassley, committee members and staff on international trade and customs matters.

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Seasoned Immigration Partner Ian D. Wagreich Joins Hinshaw in Chicago

Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Ian D. Wagreich has joined the U.S. law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice in Chicago. With more than 20 years of experience, Wagreich provides counsel to multinational corporations, hospitals, nonprofit institutions, universities, professional athletes, artists, musicians and entrepreneurs in all aspects of immigration and nationality law.

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Blank Rome Adds Prominent Insurance Recovery Team in Washington, D.C.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome three new attorneys and a paralegal to the Firm’s Insurance Recovery group in the Washington, D.C., office: Partner Robert P. Jacobs, Of Counsel Linda A. Powell, Associate Allison Zamani (based in San Francisco), and Paralegal Lakisha Foster. The prominent team joins from Perkins Coie LLP where Rob served as firmwide chair of the Insurance Recovery practice. They add to Blank Rome’s leading national policyholder practice, which has more than doubled since Blank Rome welcomed more than 100 attorneys from Dickstein Shapiro LLP’s New York and Washington, D.C., offices in 2016.

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King & Spalding Adds Four-Lawyer White Collar Crime Team in Paris

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

King & Spalding has recruited a Paris-based white-collar crime team, led by partner Jean Tamalet, to expand and strengthen its international Government Matters Practice Group. Tamalet is a French criminal lawyer who represents both corporations and their executives in a variety of matters, focusing primarily on alleged criminal financial fraud offences. He most recently worked at Bird & Bird, prior to which he had established his own white-collar crime boutique, Tamalet & Associés.

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