Alston & Bird announced today that partner Peter Amend has joined its Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group in New York, further strengthening the firm’s handling of complex financial restructurings across its global platform. Immediate prior to joining the firm, Amend served as Special Counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
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Further expanding its market-leading Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, which is recognized as one of the six most active in VC financings globally, Pillsbury has welcomed Corporate lawyer Scott Perlov back as a partner in its San Francisco office. Perlov began his legal career as an associate with Pillsbury in Los Angeles and rejoins the firm from Polsinelli PC.
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Morgan Lewis continues to expand its international trade, sanctions, and global investigations capabilities with the arrival of Michael Huneke, who most recently served as co-chair of the sanctions, export controls, and anti-money laundering practice group at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, as a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
David He has joined Cooley as an emerging companies and venture capital partner in the firm’s Singapore office. He brings more than a decade of experience advising venture capital and private equity funds, as well as startups and technology companies across the world. During this time, he was based in New York, Silicon Valley and Asia. He arrives at Cooley from Gunderson Dettmer’s Singapore office.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas Lee has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice. Lee’s practice focuses on the full spectrum of asset management M&A transactions, including control transactions, minority GP stakes transactions, and structured equity transactions. Lee joins Latham & Watkins from Fried Frank.
Tags: Latham & Watkins LLP | New YorkJennifer Kennedy Gellie, a veteran national security and white-collar enforcement attorney who most recently served as Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has joined Pillsbury as a partner in its International Trade group in Washington, D.C., which is consistently ranked by Chambers and Legal 500 as among the elite practices worldwide for International Trade and National Security matters, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign investment, customs compliance and enforcement, export controls, economic sanctions, trade remedies, trade policy, and high profile investigations.
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Alice Ahn, a leading intellectual property litigator, has joined WilmerHale as a Partner in its San Francisco office. Ms. Ahn brings significant expertise in computer science, electrical engineering, and complex intellectual property matters, further enhancing WilmerHale’s capacity to serve leading technology clients and advance its strategic growth on the West Coast. Ahn joins the firm from Covington & Burling LLP in San Francisco.
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Kirkland & Ellis announced today that Lindsay Trapp has joined the Firm as a partner in the Investment Funds and Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit practice groups.
Akin announced today the opening of its Chicago office. The firm’s expansion brings its premier investment management and corporate practices to a major market for private capital managers and an economic hub. The launch is led by a four-partner team that recently arrived at Akin from Mayer Brown, including Wendy Gallegos who will serve as partner-in-charge of the Chicago office.
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