O’Melveny announced today that leading Silicon Valley securities litigator Amy S. Park has joined the firm as a partner in the Securities Litigation Practice. Park was previously a partner in the Securities Litigation and Complex Litigation and Trials practices of a top 5 AmLaw firm. Park comes to the firm from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.
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Thomas L. Kirkland, Jr., Allison C. Simpson and Matthew D. Sitton have joined Butler Snow’s Ridgeland, Miss. office, and will practice with the firm’s health law group. Sitton and Simpson join the firm from Balch & Bingham LLP, Kirkland joins from Copeland, Cook, Taylor and Bush, P.A.
Tags: Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC | Ridgeland
Darrick Hooker has joined Barnes & Thornburg’s Intellectual Property Department as a partner in the Chicago office – making him the fifth partner addition in Chicago this year and the fourth in the office’s Intellectual Property Department. Hooker comes to the firm from the Chicago office of Akerman LLP.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced today that Meredith Beuchaw has joined the firm as a partner in The Tech Group. Beuchaw leads M&A transactions and has counseled on both the buy and sell side through hundreds of deals for over 15 years. Prior to joining Lowenstein, Beuchaw was a partner in the M&A group of Cooley LLP, where she represented well-known clients in technology and life sciences.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Commercial Litigation Practice with the addition of Matthew Devine as a partner in Chicago. He joins White & Case from Jenner & Block, where he was a partner.
James Donnell has joined McGuireWoods’ Restructuring & Insolvency Department as a partner in New York and Houston, bringing more than three decades of experience representing clients in corporate restructurings and bankruptcies across industries, with a particular focus on oil and gas, power, banking, air freight, and chemicals. Donnell comes to McGuireWoods from Baker McKenzie in New York.
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of labor and employment partner Tony Coleman, who joins the firm in Louisville after 21 years at Frost Brown Todd.
Frost Brown Todd (FBT) is expanding its Texas presence with a new office in Houston. Zenobia Harris Bivens, a Houston native, will act as the office’s member-in-charge. The firm has already brought on eight additional attorneys with experience in a variety of industries, including energy, construction, manufacturing, health care, sports & entertainment, and finance. Several of the attorneys join FBT from their former firm McFall, Breitbeil & Eidman, P.C., from which they bring their boutique commercial and oil & gas sector litigation practice. They include Members Kenneth Breitbeil, Greg Eidman, Courtney Gahm-Oldham, and Associate Stephen Crowder. Former XFL Houston Roughnecks President Brian Michael Cooper returns to private practice as a member at FBT. Members Cleve Glenn and Patrick LaRue recently joined from Lewis Brisbois, and Member Ken Bullock joins from Munsch Hardt.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Steve Borgman to the Houston office as a partner in the Mechanical & Medical Devices Team in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. Mr. Borgman is joining from Vinson & Elkins.
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