Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Healthcare partner Douglas B. Swill has joined the firm’s Chicago office. With 230 attorneys across the country, Sheppard Mullin’s Healthcare industry team is growing rapidly. Swill is the 14th lateral partner to join Sheppard Mullin’s Healthcare team over the last three years. He was most recently a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expands its Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology and IP Litigation practices with the addition of David Magee as a shareholder in Boston. With over two decades of experience, Magee is an experienced commercial attorney with a particular emphasis on representing technology and life science clients in IP matters, including patent litigation, licensing, and counseling. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Magee was in private practice at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Boston.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Audrey F. Momanaee has joined the firm’s Houston office as partner in the Commercial Litigation group. As an accomplished litigator, Audrey focuses her practice on matters involving business disputes, commercial and contract claims, catastrophic property claims, construction defects and delays, and matters involving trade secret protection and litigation. She joins Blank Rome from Balch & Bingham where she led the firm’s litigation practice in Texas.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced today that highly regarded intellectual property lawyer Johanna Schmitt has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Schmitt arrives from Kirkland & Ellis.
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Carl von Merz, a highly regarded corporate attorney with two decades of experience advising on large scale energy industry transactions, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, where he will serve as head of the firm’s U.S. Oil and Gas practice. Von Merz joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Mayer Brown LLP, where he served as leader of the firm’s Houston Corporate Practice and head of its U.S. Upstream Energy Practice.
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Akerman proudly welcomes Ricardo Bernard and Joseph Brasile to our New York office. Bernard is a partner in the firm’s corporate practice and Brasile joins as a partner in the real estate practice. Brasile previously served as a partner at Faegre Drinker. Prior to joining Akerman, Bernard helped co-found the Washington, D.C., office of ASAFO & Co., an international law firm focused on emerging market transactions.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that prominent patent litigators Robert Benson and Jeffrey Johnson have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department in the San Francisco and Houston offices, respectively, as partners. Both partnerts arrive at Baker Botts from Orrick.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice, and its financial institutions and private equity global industry groups, with the addition of Lauren Winter as a partner in London. Winter arrives at the firm from Paul Hastings.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to expand its Financial Regulatory & Compliance Practice with the addition of Lisa M. Lanham as a shareholder. Lanham was formerly a partner in Ballard Spahr LLP’s Consumer Financial Services Practice and co-led the firm’s Fintech and Payment Solutions Team.
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