Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that William Bogdan has joined the firm as a partner and Michael McConathy has joined as of counsel in the Personal Injury/Property Damage Defense Litigation practice in San Francisco. Formerly with LeClairRyan, Bogdan and McConathy join their former LeClairRyan partner, Jennifer Gray who joined Hinshaw’s Consumer Financial Services practice in Los Angeles last month. More >>
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Akin Gump is delighted to announce that private equity partner Weyinmi Popo will join the firm’s London office from Orrick later in October, 2019. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Eliot Adelson has joined the firm as a partner in San Francisco in its Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Defense Group. Mr. Adelson’s practice includes civil and criminal antitrust litigation and internal and governmental investigations. He has significant experience representing U.S. and Japanese companies. Mr. Adelson is the fifth lateral partner to join the firm’s Global Antitrust Law Practice in the last year, and the second to join in San Francisco following the recent arrival of Bonnie Lau, whose practice also focuses on civil and criminal antitrust litigation. Mr. Adelson joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco. More >>
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Mayer Brown announced that it has expanded its Real Estate Markets practice with the addition of Jeffrey O’Neale, who joins the firm as a partner in Charlotte. Previously, Mr. O’Neale was a partner at Alston & Bird LLP. More >>
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Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, is pleased to announce the addition of three employment litigators in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Nicole Golob Minkow and Nicole Kamm join the firm’s California Litigation Practice as partners and Hannah Sweiss joins as an associate. Prior to joining the firm, Kamm and Sweiss both practiced at Lewitt Hackman. Minkow comes to Fisher Phillips after seven years with Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP in Encino. More >>
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In its pursuit to build upon its market–leading global funds finance practice, Reed Smith has announced that Colin Baker will join the firm as a partner in its Financial Industry Group, based in London. Baker, who joins the firm from Goodwin Procter, brings a practice steeped in funds finance experience acting for fund borrowers and lenders. More >>
Tags: Reed Smith LLP | LondonMorrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Nicholas Sheets has joined the firm in the Hong Kong office as a partner in its global Private Funds Group. Mr. Sheets is an accomplished corporate lawyer who brings nearly a decade of experience advising Asia, U.S., and Latin America sponsors and investors in the structuring, formation, and offering of private equity funds as well as co-investment activities and secondary transactions. Mr. Sheets most recently practiced in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. More >>
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Lewis Brisbois has grown its Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice in Atlanta, bringing on accomplished environmental law attorney Martin A. Shelton as a partner. Mr. Shelton brings nearly a quarter century of experience counseling clients on the environmental issues involved in real estate transactions, Brownfield remediation and redevelopment, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Shelton joins the firm from Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C. in Atlanta.
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Michael Freeman has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Dallas-based partner in the firm’s Energy Practice Group. Freeman began his law practice as a member of Vinson & Elkin LLP’s Corporate group and was most recently at Winstead P.C., where he was a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate and M&A sections. More >>
Tags: Haynes and Boone, LLP | DallasAkin Gump today announced the addition of partners M. Andrew Holtman Ph.D. and C. Brandon Rash to its intellectual property practice in Washington, D.C. Both come to Akin Gump from the IP boutique firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. More >>
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