King & Spalding Adds Two Government Contracts Partners to its Special Matters and Government Investigations Team

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

King & Spalding today announced that Rick Vacura and Steve Cave have joined the firm as partners in its Special Matters and Government Investigations team.

Vacura and Cave are government contracts lawyers representing clients selling products and services to federal, state and local government customers. Their focus includes conducting internal investigations, mergers and acquisitions, procurement and IP counseling, and litigation. They are joining from Morrison & Foerster, and McKinsey & Company, respectively. Vacura and Cave will be resident in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia, joining Lawrence Yanowitch, Thomas Knox, Charles Katz, and Jeremy Schropp, corporate partners who also joined the firm from Morrison & Foerster in October of last year. Vacura will head the firm’s Government Contracts practice area.

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Perkins Coie Adds Trial Attorney Renée Rothauge to Portland Office

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Renée Rothauge has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice as a partner in the Portland office. Renée counsels national and global clients on litigation strategy and guides them through high-stakes jury and bench trials as well as arbitrations. Ms. Rothauge previously practiced in the Portland office of Markowitz Herbold PC.

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Winstead Expands with the Addition of Leading Airline Finance Attorneys and Opens New York Office

Monday, February 17, 2020

Winstead PC is pleased to announce that highly regarded airline finance practitioners, Jaeyong (Jae) So and Jaesuk (Jay) Yoo, have joined the firm as shareholders as Winstead opens a New York office.

The addition of So and Yoo, who both came to Winstead from a leading international law firm, bolsters Winstead’s preeminent airline practice, which represents some of the largest airlines in the world. The New York office is the firm’s eighth nationwide. By opening an office in New York, the hub of financing transactions for airlines and their financing parties, Winstead positions itself to better serve not only its airline clients but other clients who are based or conduct business in New York and the Northeast. The duo joins from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.

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Freshfields Hires Top Brussels Litigation Team Strengthening its Global Disputes Practice

Monday, February 17, 2020
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) announced today the addition of a top litigation team in Belgium, led by highly respected litigation lawyer Nathalie Colin, in a move that will further enhance the firm’s global dispute resolution practice and establish its litigation offering at the top of the Belgian market. Nathalie will be joined by principal associates Alexandre Hublet and Nino De Lathauwer. The team will be based in the firm’s Brussels office, providing advice to clients globally, and will work particularly closely with Freshfields’ leading disputes practices across continental Europe. The team will join the firm from the Brussels office of White & Case LLP.

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Hogan Lovells Continues Expansion of Australian Practice with the Addition of a Finance Partner in Sydney

Monday, February 17, 2020

Hogan Lovells announced today that Bryan Paisley will be joining the firm as a partner in the Finance practice later this month, based in the Sydney office. He will be joining from Baker McKenzie in Sydney where he has been a partner for 13 years. Prior to joining Bakers, Bryan worked at Lovells (as it then was) in the London office from 1997 to 2005 including a secondment in Frankfurt in 2000 following the Boesebeck Droste merger.

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King & Spalding Recruits Construction Partner Ingrid Myers to its Corporate, Finance and Investments Practice

Friday, February 14, 2020

King & Spalding today announced that Ingrid Myers has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its Houston office. Myers’s practice focuses on the drafting and negotiation of construction-related contracts for the development of energy and other major infrastructure projects. Myers joins the firm from Morgan Lewis.

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Perkins Coie Announces New Office in Austin

Friday, February 14, 2020

Perkins Coie, an Am Law 50 firm known for representing innovative companies and industry leaders, announced today that it has opened an office in Austin, marking an expansion of its Texas operations. Establishing an office in Austin furthers the firm’s momentum in building a strong tech-based practice in Texas and broadens its ability to counsel companies across the state, including those in computer electronics and other technology industries as well as those in the retail, transportation, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries, as they increasingly adopt technology-related platforms and applications. Perkins Coie welcomes three new partners, joining from Vinson & Elkins and Wilson Sonsini, to help establish a foothold in the Texas capital.

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BCLP Strengthens Insurance Practice with Addition of Industry Leading Three-Partner Group in Kansas City

Friday, February 14, 2020

The global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced the addition of a three-partner group of highly regarded transactional and regulatory insurance lawyers. The group includes the global co-leader of Dentons’ Insurance Sector practice, Bruce Baty, and his longtime colleague, Jodi Adolf, as well as Kelly Sullivan, a leading insurance transactional and regulatory partner from Polsinelli. They will be resident in the firm’s Kansas City office. Baty also will become a co-leader of BCLP’s Insurance Sector practice. Additionally, the group includes Fred Heese, who formerly served as chief financial examiner and director of the Division of Insurance Company Regulation for the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance.

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